How create GeoIP functionality in PHP project?

Question

I have some IP adress ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) and I must receive (learn) name of country and it would be nice if I can receive (learn) name of city too. And don't forget It's php-project, useful API - very good.

P.S. It's some open-source project and we must use only free and open-source tools.

http://php.net/manual/en/book.geoip.php – Alex Rashkov Dec 12 '10 at 17:14 — Alex Rashkov, Dec 12 '10 at 17:14

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 23 '12 at 10:36

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None (only the 'GeoIP.dat' file is needed). To download a free GeoIP Standard Country database, go to http://maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/

Install

Just place the 'geoip.inc' file somewhere according to the 'include_path' directive of your 'php.ini' file, or just place it in the same directory as your PHP scripts.

Usage

Gets country name by hostname :

include("geoip.inc");

$gi = geoip_open("/usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat",GEOIP_STANDARD);

echo geoip_country_code_by_addr($gi, "24.24.24.24") . "\t" .
     geoip_country_name_by_addr($gi, "24.24.24.24") . "\n";
echo geoip_country_code_by_addr($gi, "80.24.24.24") . "\t" .
     geoip_country_name_by_addr($gi, "80.24.24.24") . "\n";

HTH.

answered Aug 23 '12 at 10:36

crmpicco

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Thanks! Helped me a ton, +1. But note you have to `geoip_close()` and that you'll need the other databases for gathering things like city names and ASNs (their ISPs) and IPv6 support requires the databases suffixed by "v6". – Camilo Martin Dec 31 '13 at 08:18
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This should be best answer . free services like `ipinfo.io` are not reliable I always I got error message and some time they ban may IP address . Last they use same DB this from their site "This product includes GeoLite2 data " – Salem Jan 21 '15 at 09:03

jwueller · Answer 2 · 2010-12-12T17:16:02.287

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PHP has some useful builtin GeoIP-functions. They should be sufficient:

$details = geoip_record_by_name($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
echo $details['city'];

edited Dec 12 '10 at 17:16

answered Dec 12 '10 at 17:11

jwueller

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It's not because they're in the manual that they're built-in, you know... This one isn't. – Camilo Martin Dec 29 '13 at 02:06

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 20 '17 at 09:18

In Linux Environment 1. sudo yum install php56-devel geoip geoip-devel php-pear 2. sudo pecl install geoip 3. extension=geoip.so (add this line in php.ini) 4. move .dat file in /usr/share/GeoIP folder

In Windows Environment 1. move .dll in ext folder 2. move .dat file in apache/bin folder 3. add dll extension in php.ini

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