How do I grab content from a page and display it?

How do I grab the text after the location and output it?
From this site:

I want to put the visitor's IP address;
and grab the location;

http://www.hostip.info/

Thanks

 

Just use geoplugin.

$fetch = unserialize(file_get_contents('http://www.geoplugin.net/php.gp?ip='.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']));
$country_code = $fetch['geoplugin_countryCode'];
$city = $fetch['geoplugin_city'];
$state = $fetch['geoplugin_region'];

PHP:

And so on, the other variables that you can use as keys in a return are: (these are based on my IP)

FYI : KBlinker (in my sig) uses this method by default for geo-targeting.

 

I noticed host IP has it's own API in the same fashion, the best approach would be to use their XML url (http://api.hostip.info/?ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)

But you'll need to parse the xml that gets returned (it's not quite as friendly as geoplugin where it returns a serialized string that can be immediately turned into a php array).

If all you want is the country code using hostip

$country_code = file_get_contents("http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip=".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);

PHP:

 

file_get_contents(url) is not a great idea - most hosting companies have disallowed fopen on remote files. you can use curl or you can use geolocation js apis. for instance, i wrote one a while back:

http://fragged.org/dev/geoinfo.php

but this uses the mootools javascript framework. anyway, its basic enough to reproduce using vanilla js also, using geoip.pidgets.com, with a fallback to query.yahooapis.com that gets extended info:

var geoData = new Class({
    Implements: [Options, Events],
    options: {
        url: "http://geoip.pidgets.com/?format=json",
        callback: $empty,
    },
    initialize: function(options) {
        this.setOptions(options);
    },
    lookup: function() {
        new Asset.javascript(this.options.url + "&callback=" + this.options.callback);
        // console.log("done...", this.options.url + "&callback=" + this.options.callback);
    },
    setData: function(data) {
        this.geoData = data;
        // console.log(data);
        this.fireEvent("complete", data);
    },
    complete: function(data) {
        this.fireEvent("complete", data);
    }
});

var county = city = false, myData = new geoData({
    callback: "myData.setData" // needs to match instance name
}).addEvents({
    "complete": function(data) {
        // console.log(data);
        try {
            data.query.results.place.each(function(el) {
                if (el.admin2.type == "County" && !county)
                    county = el.admin2.content;
            });
        }
        catch (e) {
            // console.log("error", e);

        }

        this.setOptions({
            url: 'http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select * from geo.places where text="'+data.city+'"&format=json',
        });

        if (!county) {
            city = data.city;
            //console.log(this);
            this.lookup();
        }
        else {
            $("output").set("html", "We think you may be in " +city + ", " + county);
        }
    }
});

myData.lookup();

PHP:

obviously, you can use ajax to send it back to your php etc.

 

Guys, this was a really helpful response, I found both, very helpful and it works beautifully!

thanks a lot!

 

That is why I implemented this very small function in most of my codes.

function fetch_url($url)
{
	if (!function_exists('file_get_contents')) 
		return file_get_contents_curl($url);
	else
		return file_get_contents($url);
}

function file_get_contents_curl($url) {
	$ch = curl_init();
	
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
	
	$data = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	
	return $data;
}

PHP: