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Imp You can't get the country "just by looking at an IP address". Our service, IPinfo.io, infers the geographic location of IPs by pulling in many different data sources, and performing active scans across all IP addresses, and then publishes the results daily.
The simplest way to collect the visitor IP address in PHP is the REMOTE_ADDR. Pass the 'REMOTE_ADDR' in PHP $_SERVER variable. It will return the IP address of the visitor who is currently viewing the webpage.
The geoip_country_code_by_name() is an inbuilt function in PHP which helps to generate the two-letter country code (Each country is assigned a two-letter country code. For Example: US for United States). The function takes the hostname or IP Address as an argument and generates the two letter country code.
An easy way to get the users country is to read the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE header. Show activity on this post. Any checking usualy go by IP and using some database of ipranges and to what country thay are assigned. This works in most cases unless the user uses some proxy or likewize.
Try this simple PHP function.
<?php
function ip_info($ip = NULL, $purpose = "location", $deep_detect = TRUE) {
$output = NULL;
if (filter_var($ip, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP) === FALSE) {
$ip = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
if ($deep_detect) {
if (filter_var(@$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'], FILTER_VALIDATE_IP))
$ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
if (filter_var(@$_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'], FILTER_VALIDATE_IP))
$ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];
}
}
$purpose = str_replace(array("name", "\n", "\t", " ", "-", "_"), NULL, strtolower(trim($purpose)));
$support = array("country", "countrycode", "state", "region", "city", "location", "address");
$continents = array(
"AF" => "Africa",
"AN" => "Antarctica",
"AS" => "Asia",
"EU" => "Europe",
"OC" => "Australia (Oceania)",
"NA" => "North America",
"SA" => "South America"
);
if (filter_var($ip, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP) && in_array($purpose, $support)) {
$ipdat = @json_decode(file_get_contents("http://www.geoplugin.net/json.gp?ip=" . $ip));
if (@strlen(trim($ipdat->geoplugin_countryCode)) == 2) {
switch ($purpose) {
case "location":
$output = array(
"city" => @$ipdat->geoplugin_city,
"state" => @$ipdat->geoplugin_regionName,
"country" => @$ipdat->geoplugin_countryName,
"country_code" => @$ipdat->geoplugin_countryCode,
"continent" => @$continents[strtoupper($ipdat->geoplugin_continentCode)],
"continent_code" => @$ipdat->geoplugin_continentCode
);
break;
case "address":
$address = array($ipdat->geoplugin_countryName);
if (@strlen($ipdat->geoplugin_regionName) >= 1)
$address[] = $ipdat->geoplugin_regionName;
if (@strlen($ipdat->geoplugin_city) >= 1)
$address[] = $ipdat->geoplugin_city;
$output = implode(", ", array_reverse($address));
break;
case "city":
$output = @$ipdat->geoplugin_city;
break;
case "state":
$output = @$ipdat->geoplugin_regionName;
break;
case "region":
$output = @$ipdat->geoplugin_regionName;
break;
case "country":
$output = @$ipdat->geoplugin_countryName;
break;
case "countrycode":
$output = @$ipdat->geoplugin_countryCode;
break;
}
}
}
return $output;
}
?>
How to use:
Example1: Get visitor IP address details
<?php
echo ip_info("Visitor", "Country"); // India
echo ip_info("Visitor", "Country Code"); // IN
echo ip_info("Visitor", "State"); // Andhra Pradesh
echo ip_info("Visitor", "City"); // Proddatur
echo ip_info("Visitor", "Address"); // Proddatur, Andhra Pradesh, India
print_r(ip_info("Visitor", "Location")); // Array ( [city] => Proddatur [state] => Andhra Pradesh [country] => India [country_code] => IN [continent] => Asia [continent_code] => AS )
?>
Example 2: Get details of any IP address. [Support IPV4 & IPV6]
<?php
echo ip_info("173.252.110.27", "Country"); // United States
echo ip_info("173.252.110.27", "Country Code"); // US
echo ip_info("173.252.110.27", "State"); // California
echo ip_info("173.252.110.27", "City"); // Menlo Park
echo ip_info("173.252.110.27", "Address"); // Menlo Park, California, United States
print_r(ip_info("173.252.110.27", "Location")); // Array ( [city] => Menlo Park [state] => California [country] => United States [country_code] => US [continent] => North America [continent_code] => NA )
?>
You can use a simple API from http://www.geoplugin.net/
$xml = simplexml_load_file("http://www.geoplugin.net/xml.gp?ip=".getRealIpAddr());
echo $xml->geoplugin_countryName ;
echo "<pre>";
foreach ($xml as $key => $value)
{
echo $key , "= " , $value , " \n" ;
}
echo "</pre>";
Function Used
function getRealIpAddr()
{
if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'])) //check ip from share internet
{
$ip=$_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];
}
elseif (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'])) //to check ip is pass from proxy
{
$ip=$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
}
else
{
$ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
}
return $ip;
}
Output
United States
geoplugin_city= San Antonio
geoplugin_region= TX
geoplugin_areaCode= 210
geoplugin_dmaCode= 641
geoplugin_countryCode= US
geoplugin_countryName= United States
geoplugin_continentCode= NA
geoplugin_latitude= 29.488899230957
geoplugin_longitude= -98.398696899414
geoplugin_regionCode= TX
geoplugin_regionName= Texas
geoplugin_currencyCode= USD
geoplugin_currencySymbol= $
geoplugin_currencyConverter= 1
It makes you have so many options you can play around with
Thanks
:)
I tried Chandra's answer but my server configuration does not allow file_get_contents()
PHP Warning: file_get_contents() URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration
I modified Chandra's code so that it also works for servers like that using cURL:
function ip_visitor_country()
{
$client = @$_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];
$forward = @$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
$remote = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$country = "Unknown";
if(filter_var($client, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP))
{
$ip = $client;
}
elseif(filter_var($forward, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP))
{
$ip = $forward;
}
else
{
$ip = $remote;
}
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.geoplugin.net/json.gp?ip=".$ip);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$ip_data_in = curl_exec($ch); // string
curl_close($ch);
$ip_data = json_decode($ip_data_in,true);
$ip_data = str_replace('"', '"', $ip_data); // for PHP 5.2 see stackoverflow.com/questions/3110487/
if($ip_data && $ip_data['geoplugin_countryName'] != null) {
$country = $ip_data['geoplugin_countryName'];
}
return 'IP: '.$ip.' # Country: '.$country;
}
echo ip_visitor_country(); // output Coutry name
?>
Hope that helps ;-)
You can use a web-service from http://ip-api.com
in your php code, do as follow :
<?php
$ip = $_REQUEST['REMOTE_ADDR']; // the IP address to query
$query = @unserialize(file_get_contents('http://ip-api.com/php/'.$ip));
if($query && $query['status'] == 'success') {
echo 'Hello visitor from '.$query['country'].', '.$query['city'].'!';
} else {
echo 'Unable to get location';
}
?>
the query have many other informations:
array (
'status' => 'success',
'country' => 'COUNTRY',
'countryCode' => 'COUNTRY CODE',
'region' => 'REGION CODE',
'regionName' => 'REGION NAME',
'city' => 'CITY',
'zip' => ZIP CODE,
'lat' => LATITUDE,
'lon' => LONGITUDE,
'timezone' => 'TIME ZONE',
'isp' => 'ISP NAME',
'org' => 'ORGANIZATION NAME',
'as' => 'AS NUMBER / NAME',
'query' => 'IP ADDRESS USED FOR QUERY',
)
Actually, you can call http://api.hostip.info/?ip=123.125.114.144 to get the information, which is presented in XML.
Use MaxMind GeoIP (or GeoIPLite if you are not ready to pay).
$gi = geoip_open('GeoIP.dat', GEOIP_MEMORY_CACHE);
$country = geoip_country_code_by_addr($gi, $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
geoip_close($gi);
Check out php-ip-2-country from code.google. The database they provide is updated daily, so it is not necessary to connect to an outside server for the check if you host your own SQL server. So using the code you would only have to type:
<?php
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
if(!empty($ip)){
require('./phpip2country.class.php');
/**
* Newest data (SQL) avaliable on project website
* @link http://code.google.com/p/php-ip-2-country/
*/
$dbConfigArray = array(
'host' => 'localhost', //example host name
'port' => 3306, //3306 -default mysql port number
'dbName' => 'ip_to_country', //example db name
'dbUserName' => 'ip_to_country', //example user name
'dbUserPassword' => 'QrDB9Y8CKMdLDH8Q', //example user password
'tableName' => 'ip_to_country', //example table name
);
$phpIp2Country = new phpIp2Country($ip,$dbConfigArray);
$country = $phpIp2Country->getInfo(IP_COUNTRY_NAME);
echo $country;
?>
Example Code (from the resource)
<?
require('phpip2country.class.php');
$dbConfigArray = array(
'host' => 'localhost', //example host name
'port' => 3306, //3306 -default mysql port number
'dbName' => 'ip_to_country', //example db name
'dbUserName' => 'ip_to_country', //example user name
'dbUserPassword' => 'QrDB9Y8CKMdLDH8Q', //example user password
'tableName' => 'ip_to_country', //example table name
);
$phpIp2Country = new phpIp2Country('213.180.138.148',$dbConfigArray);
print_r($phpIp2Country->getInfo(IP_INFO));
?>
Output
Array
(
[IP_FROM] => 3585376256
[IP_TO] => 3585384447
[REGISTRY] => RIPE
[ASSIGNED] => 948758400
[CTRY] => PL
[CNTRY] => POL
[COUNTRY] => POLAND
[IP_STR] => 213.180.138.148
[IP_VALUE] => 3585378964
[IP_FROM_STR] => 127.255.255.255
[IP_TO_STR] => 127.255.255.255
)
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