Route user IP to the country

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Hi everyone,

I appreciate if someone could provide a solution for this particular problem that I am facing in PHP. I am trying to trace the country of an IP & host addresses that I captured in the form email. How can it be done in PHP? Pls help. Thanks.

rgds,

Ricko

[elfynmcb]

Hey,

you can do this:

<?php

error_reporting( E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE );
$ip_addr = "212.135.179.221";
$url= "http://www.nic.com/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=$ip_addr";
$fp = fopen($url,"r");
if( ! $fp )
{
    die("warning: failed to connect to $url");
}
else
{
    while( ! feof($fp) )
    {
        $str .= fgets($fp,4096);
    }
    if( ! $str )
    {
        die("warning: \$str is empty!");
    }
}
if( ! fclose($fp) )
{
    die("warning: could not close \$fp!");
}

if( preg_match("/country:\s+([A-Za-z]{2,4})/",$str,$re_match) )
{
    $re_match[0] = str_replace("country: ","",$re_match[0]);
    echo "The i.p. address ".$ip_addr." is located in country".$re_match[0]."\n";
}

?>

Although this will only get the country (if stated).

[tgotchi]

See this method. Reverse lookup database IP => Country. No DLL and network connection required.

http://www.location.com.mywww.location.com.my