Getting visitors country from their IP

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I want to get visitors country via their IP    Right now I m using this  http   api hostip info country php ip           Here is my code    lt  php  if  isset   SERVER  HTTP CLIENT IP            real ip adress     SERVER  HTTP CLIENT IP       if  isset   SERVER  HTTP X FORWARDED FOR            real ip adress     SERVER  HTTP X FORWARDED FOR      else        real ip adress     SERVER  REMOTE ADDR        cip    real ip adress   iptolocation    http   api hostip info country php ip      cip   creatorlocation   file get contents  iptolocation      gt    Well  it s working properly  but the thing is  this returns the country code like US or CA   and not the whole country name like United States or Canada   So  is there any good alternative to hostip info offers this   I know that I can just write some code that will eventually turn this two letters to whole country name  but I m just too lazy to write a code that contains all countries     P S  For some reason I don t want to use any ready made CSV file or any code that will grab this information for me  something like ip2country ready made code and CSV

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Not sure if this is a new service but now (2016) the easiest way in php is to use geoplugin's php web service: http://www.geoplugin.net/php.gp:

Basic usage:

// GET IP ADDRESS
if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'])) {
    $ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];
} else if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'])) {
    $ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
} else if (!empty($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])) {
    $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
} else {
    $ip = false;
}

// CALL THE WEBSERVICE
$ip_info = unserialize(file_get_contents('http://www.geoplugin.net/php.gp?ip='.$ip));

They also provide a ready built class: http://www.geoplugin.com/_media/webservices/geoplugin.class.php.tgz?id=webservices%3Aphp&cache=cache

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I know this is old  but I tried a few other solutions on here and they seem to be outdated or just return null  So this is how I did it   Using http   www geoplugin net json gp ip  which doesn t require any type of sign up or paying for the service   function get client ip server        ipaddress       if  isset   SERVER  HTTP CLIENT IP        ipaddress     SERVER  HTTP CLIENT IP    else if isset   SERVER  HTTP X FORWARDED FOR        ipaddress     SERVER  HTTP X FORWARDED FOR    else if isset   SERVER  HTTP X FORWARDED        ipaddress     SERVER  HTTP X FORWARDED    else if isset   SERVER  HTTP FORWARDED FOR        ipaddress     SERVER  HTTP FORWARDED FOR    else if isset   SERVER  HTTP FORWARDED        ipaddress     SERVER  HTTP FORWARDED    else if isset   SERVER  REMOTE ADDR        ipaddress     SERVER  REMOTE ADDR    else    ipaddress    UNKNOWN      return  ipaddress      ipaddress   get client ip server     function getCountry  ip        curlSession   curl init        curl setopt  curlSession  CURLOPT URL   http   www geoplugin net json gp ip    ip       curl setopt  curlSession  CURLOPT BINARYTRANSFER  true       curl setopt  curlSession  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  true         jsonData   json decode curl exec  curlSession        curl close  curlSession        return  jsonData- gt geoplugin countryCode     echo  County     getCountry  ipaddress     And if you want extra information about it  this is a full return of Json        geoplugin request   IP ADDRESS      geoplugin status  200     geoplugin delay   2ms      geoplugin credit   Some of the returned data includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind  available from  lt a href  http     www maxmind com  gt http     www maxmind com lt   a gt        geoplugin city   Current City      geoplugin region   Region      geoplugin regionCode   Region Code      geoplugin regionName   Region Name      geoplugin areaCode         geoplugin dmaCode   650      geoplugin countryCode   US      geoplugin countryName   United States      geoplugin inEU  0     geoplugin euVATrate  false     geoplugin continentCode   NA      geoplugin continentName   North America      geoplugin latitude   37 5563      geoplugin longitude   -99 9413      geoplugin locationAccuracyRadius   5      geoplugin timezone   America  Chicago      geoplugin currencyCode   USD      geoplugin currencySymbol          geoplugin currencySymbol UTF8          geoplugin currencyConverter  1

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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

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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    lt  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    gt   localhost     example host name                  port    gt  3306    3306 -default mysql port number                  dbName    gt   ip to country     example db name                  dbUserName    gt   ip to country     example user name                  dbUserPassword    gt   QrDB9Y8CKMdLDH8Q     example user password                  tableName    gt   ip to country     example table name                      phpIp2Country   new phpIp2Country  ip  dbConfigArray            country    phpIp2Country- gt getInfo IP COUNTRY NAME           echo  country    gt    Example Code  from the resource    lt   require  phpip2country class php      dbConfigArray   array           host    gt   localhost     example host name          port    gt  3306    3306 -default mysql port number          dbName    gt   ip to country     example db name          dbUserName    gt   ip to country     example user name          dbUserPassword    gt   QrDB9Y8CKMdLDH8Q     example user password          tableName    gt   ip to country     example table name      phpIp2Country   new phpIp2Country  213 180 138 148   dbConfigArray    print r  phpIp2Country- gt getInfo IP INFO      gt    Output  Array        IP FROM    gt  3585376256      IP TO    gt  3585384447      REGISTRY    gt  RIPE      ASSIGNED    gt  948758400      CTRY    gt  PL      CNTRY    gt  POL      COUNTRY    gt  POLAND      IP STR    gt  213 180 138 148      IP VALUE    gt  3585378964      IP FROM STR    gt  127 255 255 255      IP TO STR    gt  127 255 255 255

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Use following services  1  http   api hostip info get html php ip 12 215 42 19  2     json   file get contents  http   freegeoip appspot com json 66 102 13 106     expression   json decode  json   print r  expression     3  http   ipinfodb com ip location api php

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Replace 127 0 0 1 with visitors IpAddress    country   geoip country name by name  127 0 0 1      Installation instructions are here  and read this to know how to obtain City  State  Country  Longitude  Latitude  etc

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you can use  http   ipinfo io  to get details of ip address Its easy to use     lt  php     function ip details  ip             json   file get contents  http   ipinfo io   ip          details   json decode  json       return  details              details   ip details YoUR IP ADDRESS         echo  details- gt city      echo   lt br gt    details- gt country       echo   lt br gt    details- gt org       echo   lt br gt    details- gt hostname           gt

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Would that be acceptable   pure PHP  country   geoip country code by name   SERVER  REMOTE ADDR     print  country   ref  https   www php net manual en function geoip-country-code-by-name php

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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- gt geoplugin countryName     echo   lt pre gt    foreach   xml as  key   gt   value        echo  key           value       n      echo   lt  pre gt      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

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There is a well-maintained flat-file version of the ip- country database maintained by the Perl community at CPAN  Access to those files does not require a dataserver  and the data itself is roughly 515k  Higemaru has written a PHP wrapper to talk to that data  php-ip-country-fast

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Actually  you can call http   api hostip info  ip 123 125 114 144 to get the information  which is presented in XML

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I am using ipinfodb com api and getting exactly what you are looking for   Its completely free  you just need to register with them to get your api key  You can include their php class by downloading from their website or you can use url format to retrieve information   Here s what I am doing   I included their php class in my script and using the below code    ipLite   new ip2location lite   ipLite- gt setKey  your api key    if    COOKIE  visitorCity       I am using cookie to store information    visitorCity    ipLite- gt getCity   SERVER  REMOTE ADDR       if   visitorCity  statusCode       OK          data   base64 encode serialize  visitorCity        setcookie  visitorCity    data  time   3600 24 7     set cookie for 1 week        visitorCity   unserialize base64 decode   COOKIE  visitorCity      echo  visitorCity  countryName     Region   visitorCity  regionName      Thats it

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echo json decode file get contents  https   iplocation hirak cc  ip     SERVER  REMOTE ADDR    - gt country      for ip 190 2 145 41 output  Natherlands  Explination  previous api provide result like this for my ip  for exemple          ip   quot 105 103 124 4 quot       country code   quot DZ quot       country   quot Algeria quot       attribution   quot Data from https   lite ip2location com  quot      so to access to the country  we will need to decode the result as stdClass  to be accessible  because the result is text format  we add the json decode   to the file get contents     amp  from json decode   returning stdClass  the same format  will access to country by - gt country

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We can use geobytes com to get the location using user IP address   user ip   getIP     meta tags   get meta tags  http   www geobytes com IPLocator htm GetLocation amp template php3 txt amp IPAddress      user ip   echo   lt pre gt    print r  meta tags     it will return data like this  Array       known    gt  true      locationcode    gt  USCALANG      fips104    gt  US      iso2    gt  US      iso3    gt  USA      ison    gt  840      internet    gt  US      countryid    gt  254      country    gt  United States      regionid    gt  126      region    gt  California      regioncode    gt  CA      adm1code    gt            cityid    gt  7275      city    gt  Los Angeles      latitude    gt  34 0452      longitude    gt  -118 2840      timezone    gt  -08 00      certainty    gt  53      mapbytesremaining    gt  Free     Function to get user IP  function getIP    if  isset   SERVER  HTTP X FORWARDED FOR           pattern         1-9   0-9  1 0-9  2  2 0-4  0-9  25 0-5     3   1-9   0-9  1 0-9  2  2 0-4  0-9  25 0-5           if preg match  pattern    SERVER  HTTP X FORWARDED FOR                   userIP     SERVER  HTTP X FORWARDED FOR         else               userIP     SERVER  REMOTE ADDR            else     userIP     SERVER  REMOTE ADDR      return  userIP

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Here s the cleaner and working version of the accepted answer using guzzle  You can use curl instead of guzzle it s just a simple get request      function ip info  ip   NULL   purpose    quot location quot    deep detect   TRUE             output   NULL          if  filter var  ip  FILTER VALIDATE IP      FALSE                 ip     SERVER  quot REMOTE ADDR quot                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  quot name quot    quot  n quot    quot  t quot    quot   quot    quot - quot    quot   quot    NULL  strtolower trim  purpose              support      array  quot country quot    quot countrycode quot    quot state quot    quot region quot    quot city quot    quot location quot    quot address quot             continents   array               quot AF quot    gt   quot Africa quot                quot AN quot    gt   quot Antarctica quot                quot AS quot    gt   quot Asia quot                quot EU quot    gt   quot Europe quot                quot OC quot    gt   quot Australia  Oceania  quot                quot NA quot    gt   quot North America quot                quot SA quot    gt   quot South America quot                     if  filter var  ip  FILTER VALIDATE IP   amp  amp  in array  purpose   support  true                  client   New  GuzzleHttp Client                 ipdat   json decode  client- gt request  GET   http   www geoplugin net json gp   params                      query    gt                         ip    gt   ip                                  - gt getBody  - gt getContents   true               if  strlen trim  ipdat  geoplugin countryCode         2                    switch   purpose                        case  quot location quot                            output   array                               quot city quot              gt   ipdat  geoplugin city                                 quot state quot             gt   ipdat  geoplugin regionName                                 quot country quot           gt   ipdat  geoplugin countryName                                 quot country code quot      gt   ipdat  geoplugin countryCode                                 quot continent quot         gt   continents strtoupper  ipdat  geoplugin continentCode                                   quot continent code quot    gt   ipdat  geoplugin continentCode                                                      break                      case  quot address quot                            address   array  ipdat  geoplugin countryName                             if   strlen  ipdat  geoplugin regionName     gt   1                               address      ipdat  geoplugin regionName                            if   strlen  ipdat  geoplugin city     gt   1                               address      ipdat  geoplugin city                             output   implode  quot    quot   array reverse  address                            break                      case  quot city quot                            output    ipdat  geoplugin city                            break                      case  quot region quot                       case  quot state quot                            output    ipdat  geoplugin regionName                            break                      case  quot country quot                            output    ipdat  geoplugin countryName                            break                      case  quot countrycode quot                            output    ipdat  geoplugin countryCode                            break                                                    return  output

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The User Country API has exactly what you need  Here is a sample code using file get contents   as you originally do    result   json decode file get contents  http   usercountry com v1 0 json    cip   true    result  country    name       this contains what you need

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Try this simple PHP function    lt  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    gt   Africa            AN    gt   Antarctica            AS    gt   Asia            EU    gt   Europe            OC    gt   Australia  Oceania             NA    gt   North America            SA    gt   South America             if  filter var  ip  FILTER VALIDATE IP   amp  amp  in array  purpose   support              ipdat    json decode file get contents  http   www geoplugin net json gp ip      ip            if   strlen trim  ipdat- gt geoplugin countryCode      2                switch   purpose                    case  location                        output   array                           city              gt    ipdat- gt geoplugin city                           state             gt    ipdat- gt geoplugin regionName                           country           gt    ipdat- gt geoplugin countryName                           country code      gt    ipdat- gt geoplugin countryCode                           continent         gt    continents strtoupper  ipdat- gt geoplugin continentCode                             continent code    gt    ipdat- gt geoplugin continentCode                                            break                  case  address                        address   array  ipdat- gt geoplugin countryName                       if   strlen  ipdat- gt geoplugin regionName   gt   1                           address      ipdat- gt geoplugin regionName                      if   strlen  ipdat- gt geoplugin city   gt   1                           address      ipdat- gt geoplugin city                       output   implode       array reverse  address                        break                  case  city                        output     ipdat- gt geoplugin city                      break                  case  state                        output     ipdat- gt geoplugin regionName                      break                  case  region                        output     ipdat- gt geoplugin regionName                      break                  case  country                        output     ipdat- gt geoplugin countryName                      break                  case  countrycode                        output     ipdat- gt geoplugin countryCode                      break                                    return  output       gt    How to use   Example1  Get visitor IP address details   lt  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    gt  Proddatur  state    gt  Andhra Pradesh  country    gt  India  country code    gt  IN  continent    gt  Asia  continent code    gt  AS      gt    Example 2  Get details of any IP address   Support IPV4  amp  IPV6    lt  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    gt  Menlo Park  state    gt  California  country    gt  United States  country code    gt  US  continent    gt  North America  continent code    gt  NA      gt

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This is just a security note on the functionality of get client ip   that most of the answers here have been included inside the main function of get geo info for this ip     Don t rely too much on the IP data in the request headers like Client-IP or X-Forwarded-For because they can be spoofed very easily  however you should rely on the source IP of the TCP connection that is actually established between our server and the client   SERVER  REMOTE ADDR   as it can t be spoofed    SERVER  HTTP CLIENT IP      can be spoofed    SERVER  HTTP X FORWARDED FOR      can be spoofed    SERVER  REMOTE ADDR     can t be spoofed    It s OK to get the country of the spoofed IP but Keep in mind that using this IP in any security model  e g  banning the IP that sends frequent requests  will destroy the entire security model  IMHO I prefer to use the actual client IP even if it is the IP of the proxy server

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Try this simple one line code  You will get country and city of visitors from  their ip remote address    tags   get meta tags  http   www geobytes com IpLocator htm GetLocation amp template php3 txt amp IpAddress       SERVER  REMOTE ADDR     echo  tags  country    echo  tags  city

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As of 2019  MaxMind country DB can be used as follows    lt  php require once  vendor autoload php   use MaxMind Db Reader   databaseFile    GeoIP2-Country mmdb    reader   new Reader  databaseFile    cc    reader- gt get   SERVER  REMOTE ADDR     country    iso code     US GB     reader- gt close        Source  https   github com maxmind MaxMind-DB-Reader-php

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Many different ways to do it     Solution  1   One third party service you could use is http   ipinfodb com  They provide hostname  geolocation and additional information   Register for an API key here  http   ipinfodb com register php  This will allow you to retrieve results from their server  without this it will not work   Copy and past the following PHP code    ipaddress     SERVER  REMOTE ADDR     api key    YOUR API KEY HERE     data   file get contents  http   api ipinfodb com v3 ip-city  key  api key amp ip  ipaddress amp format json     data   json decode  data    country    data  Country      Downside   Quoting from their website      Our free API is using IP2Location Lite version which provides lower   accuracy    Solution  2   This function will return country name using the http   www netip de  service    ipaddress     SERVER  REMOTE ADDR    function geoCheckIP  ip         response  file get contents  http   www netip de search query    ip         patterns array         patterns  country       Country        amp nbsp  i         ipInfo array         foreach   patterns as  key   gt   pattern                 ipInfo  key    preg match  pattern  response  value   amp  amp   empty  value 1      value 1     not found                  return  ipInfo     print r geoCheckIP  ipaddress      Output   Array    country    gt  DE - Germany       Full Country Name

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You can get visitors country and city using ipstack geo API You need to get your own ipstack API and then use the code below    lt  php   ip     SERVER  REMOTE ADDR       api key    YOUR API KEY     freegeoipjson   file get contents  http   api ipstack com    ip   access key    api key        jsondata   json decode  freegeoipjson     countryfromip    jsondata- gt country name   echo  Country      countryfromip        gt    Source  Get visitors country and city in PHP using ipstack API

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PHP code to obtain country  city  continent  etc using IP Address      ip     SERVER  quot REMOTE ADDR quot                  Use JSON encoded string and converts         it into a PHP variable       ipdat    json decode file get contents            quot http   www geoplugin net json gp ip  quot     ip                  country    ipdat- gt geoplugin countryName        city    ipdat- gt geoplugin city        continent name    ipdat- gt geoplugin continentName        latitude    ipdat- gt geoplugin latitude        longitude    ipdat- gt geoplugin longitude        currency symbol    ipdat- gt geoplugin currencySymbol        currency code    ipdat- gt geoplugin currencyCode        timezone    ipdat- gt geoplugin timezone

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A one liner with an IP address to country API  echo file get contents  https   ipapi co 8 8 8 8 country name       gt  United States   Example     https   ipapi co country name  - your country  https   ipapi co 8 8 8 8 country name  - country for IP 8 8 8 8

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My service ipdata co provides the country name in 5 languages  As well as the organisation  currency  timezone  calling code  flag  Mobile Carrier data  Proxy data and Tor Exit Node status data from any IPv4 or IPv6 address      This answer uses a  test  API Key that is very limited and only meant for testing a few calls  Signup for your own Free API Key and get up to 1500 requests daily for development    It s also extremely scalable with 10 regions around the world each able to handle  10 000 requests per second   The options include  English  en   German  de   Japanese  ja   French  fr  and Simplified Chinese  za-CH    ip    74 125 230 195    details   json decode file get contents  https   api ipdata co   ip  api-key test     echo  details- gt country name    United States echo  details- gt city    Mountain View  details   json decode file get contents  https   api ipdata co   ip  api-key test zh-CN     echo  details- gt country name

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You can use a web-service from http   ip-api com in your php code  do as follow      lt  php  ip     REQUEST  REMOTE ADDR       the IP address to query  query    unserialize file get contents  http   ip-api com php    ip    if  query  amp  amp   query  status       success       echo  Hello visitor from    query  country         query  city          else     echo  Unable to get location       gt    the query have many other informations   array      status         gt   success      country        gt   COUNTRY      countryCode    gt   COUNTRY CODE      region         gt   REGION CODE      regionName     gt   REGION NAME      city           gt   CITY      zip            gt  ZIP CODE     lat            gt  LATITUDE     lon            gt  LONGITUDE     timezone       gt   TIME ZONE      isp            gt   ISP NAME      org            gt   ORGANIZATION NAME      as             gt   AS NUMBER   NAME      query          gt   IP ADDRESS USED FOR QUERY

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I have written a class based on  Chandra Nakka  answer  Hopefully it can help people out it saves the information from geoplugin to a session so the load is much faster when recalling the information  It also saves the values to a private array so recalling in the same code is the fastest as it could be   class Geo   private   ip   null  private   useSession   true  private   sessionNameData    GEO SESSION DATA   private   hasError   false  private   geoData        const PURPOSE SUPPORT          all         location        request        latitude         longitude        accuracy        timezonde        currencycode        currencysymbol        currencysymbolutf8        country         countrycode         state    region         city         address        continent         continentcode     const CONTINENTS          AF    gt   Africa        AN    gt   Antarctica        AS    gt   Asia        EU    gt   Europe        OC    gt   Australia  Oceania         NA    gt   North America        SA    gt   South America      function   construct  ip   null   deepDetect   true   useSession   true           define the session useage within this class      this- gt  useSession    useSession       this- gt  startSession            define a ip as far as possible      this- gt  ip    this- gt  defineIP  ip   deepDetect           check if the ip was set     if    this- gt  ip             this- gt  hasError   true          return  this                define the geoData      this- gt  geoData    this- gt  fetchGeoData         return  this     function get  purpose           making sure its lowercase      purpose   strtolower  purpose           makeing sure there are no error and the geodata is not empty     if   this- gt  hasError     count  this- gt  geoData   amp  amp   in array  purpose  self  PURPOSE SUPPORT             return  error              if  in array  purpose         all    location                return  this- gt  geoData             if   purpose      state    purpose    region        return  isset  this- gt  geoData  purpose      this- gt  geoData  purpose     missing     purpose      private function  fetchGeoData            check if geo data was set before     if  count  this- gt  geoData             return  this- gt  geoData                check possible session     if   this- gt  useSession  amp  amp    sessionData    this- gt  getSession  this- gt  sessionNameData              return  sessionData                making sure we have a valid ip     if    this- gt  ip     this- gt  ip      127 0 0 1             return                   fetch the information from geoplusing      ipdata    json decode  this- gt curl  http   www geoplugin net json gp ip      this- gt  ip            check if the data was fetched     if    strlen trim  ipdata- gt geoplugin countryCode       2            return                   make a address array      address     ipdata- gt geoplugin countryName       if   strlen  ipdata- gt geoplugin regionName   gt   1           address      ipdata- gt geoplugin regionName      if   strlen  ipdata- gt geoplugin city   gt   1           address      ipdata- gt geoplugin city          makeing sure the continentCode is upper case      continentCode   strtoupper   ipdata- gt geoplugin continentCode         geoData              request    gt    ipdata- gt geoplugin request           latitude    gt    ipdata- gt geoplugin latitude           longitude    gt    ipdata- gt geoplugin longitude           accuracy    gt    ipdata- gt geoplugin locationAccuracyRadius           timezonde    gt    ipdata- gt geoplugin timezone           currencycode    gt    ipdata- gt geoplugin currencyCode           currencysymbol    gt    ipdata- gt geoplugin currencySymbol           currencysymbolutf8    gt    ipdata- gt geoplugin currencySymbol UTF8           city    gt    ipdata- gt geoplugin city           region    gt    ipdata- gt geoplugin regionName           country    gt    ipdata- gt geoplugin countryName           countrycode    gt    ipdata- gt geoplugin countryCode           continent    gt  self  CONTINENTS  continentCode            continentcode    gt   continentCode           address    gt  implode       array reverse  address               if   this- gt  useSession             this- gt  setSession  this- gt  sessionNameData   geoData              return  geoData     private function  startSession            only start a new session when the status is  none  and the class        requires a session     if   this- gt  useSession  amp  amp  session status       PHP SESSION NONE            session start             private function  defineIP  ip   deepDetect           check if the ip was set before     if   this- gt  ip            return  this- gt  ip                check if the ip given is valid     if  filter var  ip  FILTER VALIDATE IP             return  ip                try to get the ip from the REMOTE ADDR      ip   filter input INPUT SERVER   REMOTE ADDR   FILTER VALIDATE IP           check if we need to end the search for a IP if the REMOTE ADDR did not        return a valid and the deepDetect is false     if    deepDetect            return  ip                try to get the ip from HTTP X FORWARDED FOR     if    ip   filter input INPUT SERVER   HTTP X FORWARDED FOR   FILTER VALIDATE IP              return  ip                try to get the ip from the HTTP CLIENT IP     if    ip   filter input INPUT SERVER   HTTP CLIENT IP   FILTER VALIDATE IP              return  ip             return  ip     private function  hasSession  key   filter   FILTER DEFAULT         return  isset   SESSION  key      bool filter var   SESSION  key    filter    false      private function  getSession  key   filter   FILTER DEFAULT        if   this- gt  hasSession  key   filter              value   filter var   SESSION  key    filter            if   json decode  value                 return json decode  value  true                      return filter var   SESSION  key    filter         else           return false           private function  setSession  key   value         if  is array  value              value   json encode  value                SESSION  key     value     function emptySession  key        if    this- gt  hasSession  key             return               SESSION  key    null      unset   SESSION  key        function curl  url          ch   curl init        curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL   url       curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT HEADER  0       curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  1        output   curl exec  ch       curl close  ch       return  output        Answering the  op  question with this class you can call    country    new  Geo   - gt get  country       United Kingdom   And the other properties available are    geo   new  Geo  185 35 50 4    var dump  geo- gt get           allias all   location var dump  geo- gt get  country     var dump  geo- gt get  countrycode     var dump  geo- gt get  state        allias region var dump  geo- gt get  city      var dump  geo- gt get  address      var dump  geo- gt get  continent      var dump  geo- gt get  continentcode        var dump  geo- gt get  request     var dump  geo- gt get  latitude     var dump  geo- gt get  longitude     var dump  geo- gt get  accuracy     var dump  geo- gt get  timezonde     var dump  geo- gt get  currencyCode     var dump  geo- gt get  currencySymbol     var dump  geo- gt get  currencySymbolUTF8       Returning  array 15        request    gt    string 11   185 35 50 4      latitude    gt    string 7   51 4439      longitude    gt    string 7   -0 1854      accuracy    gt    string 2   50      timezonde    gt    string 13   Europe London      currencycode    gt    string 3   GBP      currencysymbol    gt    string 2           currencysymbolutf8    gt    string 2           city    gt    string 10   Wandsworth      region    gt    string 10   Wandsworth      country    gt    string 14   United Kingdom      countrycode    gt    string 2   GB      continent    gt    string 6   Europe      continentcode    gt    string 2   EU      address    gt    string 38   Wandsworth  Wandsworth  United Kingdom    string 14   United Kingdom  string 2   GB  string 10   Wandsworth  string 10   Wandsworth  string 38   Wandsworth  Wandsworth  United Kingdom  string 6   Europe  string 2   EU  string 11   185 35 50 4  string 7   51 4439  string 7   -0 1854  string 2   50  string 13   Europe London  string 3   GBP  string 2       string 2

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I have a short answer which I have used in a project  In my answer  I consider that you have visitor IP address    ip    202 142 178 220    ipdat    json decode file get contents  http   www geoplugin net json gp ip      ip      get ISO2 country code if property exists  ipdat   geoplugin countryCode          echo  ipdat- gt geoplugin countryCode      get country full name if property exists  ipdat   geoplugin countryName          echo  ipdat- gt geoplugin countryName

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Try     lt  php     gives you the IP address of the visitors   if   empty   SERVER  HTTP CLIENT IP              ip     SERVER  HTTP CLIENT IP       else if   empty   SERVER  HTTP X FORWARDED FOR              ip     SERVER  HTTP X FORWARDED FOR        else          ip     SERVER  REMOTE ADDR             return the country code    url    http   api wipmania com  ip      country   file get contents  url     echo  country       gt

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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   amp quot          ip data      for PHP 5 2 see stackoverflow com questions 3110487       if  ip data  amp  amp   ip data  geoplugin countryName      null             country    ip data  geoplugin countryName               return  IP     ip     Country     country     echo ip visitor country       output Coutry name    gt    Hope that helps  -

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You could use my service  https   SmartIP io   which provides full country names and city names of any IP address  We also expose timezones  currency  proxy detection  TOR nodes detection and Crypto detection    You just need to signup and get a free API key which allows for 250 000 requests per month   Using the official PHP library  the API call becomes    apiKey    your API key    smartIp   new SmartIP  apiKey    response    smartIp- gt requestIPData  8 8 8 8     echo   nstatus code       response- gt   status-code    echo   ncountry name       response- gt country- gt   country-name       Check the API documentation for more info  https   smartip io docs

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