Find visitor IP, Country, Latitute and longitute using PHP

How can I find visitor IP, Country, Latitute and longitute using PHP?

Any reference or help?

 

Aside from coding you will need to subscribe to a service that provide the information. I haven't used any paid services myself but I would suggest something like geobytes.com as their info looks pretty complete.

You could start with a free service like hostip.info but the information is basic, not always 100% correct and sometimes missing ...

Either way you will need to get the browser IP address and then do the lookup:

$mybrowser = "http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=" . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$mygeoinfo = file_get_contents($mybrowser);
echo $mygeoinfo;

PHP:

 

I use the free look up services of geobytes.com. As mentioned you will need to acquire the visitor's IP. In order to keep my script from linking with the service so much, I slowly build up my own data base which is checked against first before finding any information not in the data base.

Good Luck!

Sam
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Use GeoIP.

 

Hi Guys,

thanks for the reply. Client do not want a free service. At this moment, only country is enough. I found a latest database for converting IP to country. I like their mechanism.

http://software77.net/

Thanks

 

geobytes aint that good, i recommend or maxmind or hostinfo!!!

 

You can use cURL to get data from ip2location.com

 

I know a good website that provide free script to get the country, it don't use a database, just some files and the installation is very easy, 20 lines of scipts, but I can't post a link here, I will post it when I will have more than 10 posts.

 

you don't have to provide al link, give us the filename and wi'll find it

 

I believe GeoIP has an API you can integreate with PHP

 

Did you look at GeoIP that I have mentioned in my last post? If you want to pay them, they will definetly accept it with thanks. They have a paid service too, and you will get frequent updates as well.

 

You can find Finhised scripts on google , Example: Whatsmyip

 

There is complete example in PHP on my site. Easy to install & integrate into your PHP pages. Just 2 minutes to finish your work.

 

I blogged about this. Check :
http://htmlblog.net/geolocate-your-visitors-with-php-part-1/