Get Country City from IP address in PHP

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IPInfoDB provides a simple API to get the location of a visitor from his IP address. You need to first register and get an API Key.

Then this code can be used :
Code:

<?php
$url = "http://api.ipinfodb.com/v3/ip-city/?key=$your_key&ip=$ip&format=json";

$d = file_get_contents($url);
$data = json_decode($d , true);

/*
{
"statusCode" : "OK",
"statusMessage" : "",
"ipAddress" : "74.125.45.100",
"countryCode" : "US",
"countryName" : "UNITED STATES",
"regionName" : "CALIFORNIA",
"cityName" : "MOUNTAIN VIEW",
"zipCode" : "94043",
"latitude" : "37.3956",
"longitude" : "-122.076",
"timeZone" : "-08:00"
}
*/

if(strlen($data['countryCode']))
{
$info = array(
	'ip' => $data['ipAddress'] ,
	'country_code' => $data['countryCode'] ,
	'country_name' => $data['countryName'] ,
	'region_name' => $data['regionName'] ,
	'city' => $data['cityName'] ,
	'zip_code' => $data['zipCode'] ,
	'latitude' => $data['latitude'] ,
	'longitude' => $data['longitude'] ,
	'time_zone' => $data['timeZone'] ,
);
}
return $info;
?>

IPinfodb supports json and xml formats for data output.
The above code can be seen in action at ipmango.com.

Another website GeoIO provides a similar API. You need to first register and get your code.

Then you can code like this :

$url = "http://api.geoio.com/q.php?key=$your_key&qt=geoip&d=comma&q=$ip";

$d = file_get_contents($url);
$data = explode(',' , $d);

/*
	Kochi,Kerala,India,Nib (national Internet Backbone),9.9667,76.2333,IN
*/

$info = array(
	'country_code' => $data[6] ,
	'country_name' => $data[2] ,
	'region_name' => $data[1] ,
	'city' => $data[0] ,
	'latitude' => $data[4] ,
	'longitude' => $data[5] ,
	'isp' => $data[3] ,
);

Geoio provides data in delimited format like comma delimited , pipe delimited and so on.

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