ip_address

[OwenTheSamoan]

I have a site that uses php with mysql. This question doesn't have to do with either really and I do apologize for asking this questioon, but----

Is it possible to know where the location (state or country) of a user is by looking at their ip_address number? And if so, is there some sort of a listing or directory for this?

Thanks,
Owen The Samoan

[Mordecai]

There are some databases of information for this, most of them have names that make sense, like "ip2country."

So you can just pipe $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] into them and see what you get back.

There's also a handful of PHP-specific scripts for it, that fetch from local databases or files.

[OwenTheSamoan]

thank you!