Geographical IP Address

[hearn]

Anyone know where you can get data to use in a PHP script for location the geographical location of a user's IP Address, including city and state, country, etc. I know of Arin and that is about it, any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

[drew010]

http://www.ip2location.com/ has some good databases, but at the current time city is not going to be very accurate. it may be close in most instances however.

[vaaaska]

They have the database I think you are looking for...

http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/

[kidgeek_dfw]

how about this?

$ipaddr = "211.115.69.146";
$field = "City";
$data = exec("whois -h whois.arin.net \"+ $ipaddr\"",$ret);
foreach($ret as $line)
{
$search = strstr($line,$field);
if($search != "") {
$searchx = explode(":",$search);
echo trim($searchx[1]);
}
}