Using Geo-ip On My Site

ChicoMendez

hi

i want to limit what info my visitors see depending on teh country they are in .

anyone know a good db that will allow me to do a check?

tnx
chico

randombar

I would also be interested in getting co-ordinates from the ipaddress, maybe even the longitude and latitude? Please let me know how you get on!

mneylon

http://www.maxmind.com is good.

randombar

I'm very lazy:


<?
function StripTags($string){
while(strstr($string, '>')){
$currentBeg = strpos($string, '<');
$currentEnd = strpos($string, '>');
$tmpStringBeg = @substr($string, 0, $currentBeg);
$tmpStringEnd = @substr($string, $currentEnd + 1, strlen($string));
$string = $tmpStringBeg.$tmpStringEnd;
}
return $string;
}

function GetCountry($IP){
$lines = StripTags(file('http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip='.$IP));
return substr($lines[0], 9);
}

function GetCity($IP){
$lines = StripTags(file('http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip='.$IP));
$pos = -(strlen($lines[1]) - strpos($lines[1], ','));
return substr($lines[1], 6, $pos);
}

function GetState($IP){
$lines = StripTags(file('http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip='.$IP));
$pos = strpos($lines[1], ',')+2;
return substr($lines[1], $pos, 2);
}

echo GetCountry($REMOTE_ADDR).'<br>';
echo GetCity($REMOTE_ADDR).'<br>';
echo GetState($REMOTE_ADDR).'<br>';
?>

Don't forget to check out http://www.ratemypub.ie and let me know what ye think!

mneylon

That database isn't very accurate. It doesn't recognise my netblock at all!

mick.fr

Myself I use http://www.ipligence.com
They are pretty good and cheap.

randombar

I've been looking at maxmind all right and it seems the way to go, does anyone know how to use the Lite versions? I've downloaded the script and I keep getting errors from it?

I don''t really like spending any money on something until I see it works well and stuff so I'm looking for free versions at the moment!

mick.fr

GaryCocs wrote:

I've been looking at maxmind all right and it seems the way to go, does anyone know how to use the Lite versions? I've downloaded the script and I keep getting errors from it?

I don''t really like spending any money on something until I see it works well and stuff so I'm looking for free versions at the moment!

You mean IPLIENCE not MAXMIND right ?

Search their website they provide code examples for PHP, ASP etc..

randombar

No I mean maxmind, I've been reading about the two and it seems more people favour maxmind. You can also get a free database off them. Free is my favorite word! Can you get anything from the other type?

randombar

Managed to sort this one out using maxmind, if anyone needs a hand with it just let me know! By the way if anyone has a better version i.e. the fuller version of the database please let me know

Thanks
Gary