Get Country of IP Address with PHP

Question

Ideally I m trying to put together a PHP script that I can query from any web browser and it returns the country of the IP address that accessed the PHP script   Is this possible or is there a better solution

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There are various web APIs that will do this for you. Here's an example using my service, http://ipinfo.io:

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$details = json_decode(file_get_contents("http://ipinfo.io/{$ip}"));
echo $details->country; // -> "US"

Web APIs are a nice quick and easy solution, but if you need to do a lot of lookups then having an IP -> country database on your own machine is a better solution. MaxMind offer a free database that you can use with various PHP libraries, including GeoIP.

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There are free  easy APIs you can use  like those    http   ipinfodb com ip location api php http   www ipgeo com api  http   ip2 cc  http   www geobytes com IpLocator htm https   iplocate io  and plenty others    Which one looks the most trustworthy is up to you     Otherwise  there are scripts which are based on local databases on your server  The database data needs to be updated regularly  though  Check out this one    http   phpweby com software ip2country   HTH   Edit  And of course  depending on your project you might want to look at HTML5 Location features  You can t use them yet on the Internet Explorer  IE9 will support it  long way to go yet   but in case your audience is mainly on mobile devices or using Safari Firefox it s definitely worth to look at it   Once you have the coordinates  you can reverse geocode them to a country code  Again there are APIs like this one    Example  http   ws geonames org countryCode lat 47 03 amp lng 10 2  More APIs  http   www geonames org export ws-overview html   Update  April 2013 Today I would recommend using Geocoder  a PHP library which makes it very easy to geocode ip addresses as well as postal address data      Update  September 2016 Since Google s privacy politics has changed  you can t use HTML5 Geolocation API if your server doesn t have HTPPS certificate or user doesn t allow you check his location  So now you can use user s IP and check in in PHP or get HTTPS certificate

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Look at the GeoIP functions under  Other Basic Extensions    http   php net manual en book geoip php

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Here s an example using http   www geoplugin net json gp    ip     SERVER  REMOTE ADDR     details   json decode file get contents  http   www geoplugin net json gp ip   ip      echo  details     See more at  http   channasmcs blogspot com 2014 11 get-country-of-ip-address-with-php html sthash 7u3WCwQq dpuf

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I run the service at IPLocate io  which you can hook into for free with one easy call    lt  php  res   file get contents  https   www iplocate io api lookup 8 8 8 8     res   json decode  res    echo  res- gt country     United States echo  res- gt continent     North America echo  res- gt latitude     37 751 echo  res- gt longitude     -97 822  var dump  res     The  res object will contain your geolocation fields like country  city  etc   Check out the docs for more information

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You can try the services of https   www geoip-db com They provide a JSON or JSONP-callback solution    JSON  https   geoip-db com json  JSONP  https   geoip-db com json geoip php jsonp callback      lt  php       json   file get contents  https   www geoip-db com json         data   json decode  json        print  data- gt country code     lt br gt        print  data- gt country name     lt br gt        print  data- gt state     lt br gt        print  data- gt city     lt br gt        print  data- gt postal     lt br gt        print  data- gt latitude     lt br gt        print  data- gt longitude     lt br gt        print  data- gt IPv4     lt br gt       gt

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You can download ip-tables from MaxMind   http   www maxmind com app geolite  Import the CSV to your database  make sure to create an index for ip long from   ip long to   Then you can simply do    iplong   ip2long   SERVER  REMOTE ADDR         should use mysqli with prepared statements etc  but just an example mysql query       SELECT country     FROM ip table     WHERE  iplong BETWEEN ip long from AND ip long to     LIMIT 1

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Install and use PHP s GeoIP extension if you can  On debian lenny   sudo wget http   geolite maxmind com download geoip database GeoLiteCity dat gz sudo gunzip GeoLiteCity dat gz sudo mkdir -v  usr share GeoIP sudo mv -v GeoLiteCity dat  usr share GeoIP GeoIPCity dat  sudo apt-get install php5-geoip   or sudo apt-get install php-geoip for PHP7   and then try it in PHP    ip     SERVER  REMOTE ADDR     country   geoip country name by name  ip   echo  The current user is located in       country    returns   The current user is located in  Cameroon

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Ipdata co provides a scalable API to do this  With 10 global endpoints each able to handle  800M requests daily   It also gives you the organisation  currency  timezone  calling code  flag and Tor Exit Node status data from any IPv4 or IPv6 address   In php  php  gt   ip    8 8 8 8   php  gt   details   json decode file get contents  https   api ipdata co   ip      php  gt  echo  details- gt region  California php  gt  echo  details- gt city  Mountain View php  gt  echo  details- gt country name  United States php  gt  echo  details- gt location  37 405991 -122 078514   Disclaimer  I built this service

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I found this blog post very helpful  It saved my day   http   www techsirius com 2014 05 simple-geo-tracking-system html  Basically you need to install the IP database table and then do mysql query for the IP for location    lt  php include  config php   mysql connect DB HOST  DB USER  DB PASSWORD  OR die mysql error     mysql select db DB NAME  OR die mysql error      ip      SERVER  REMOTE ADDR     long   sprintf   u   ip2long  ip     sql    SELECT   FROM  geo ips  WHERE   long  BETWEEN  ip start  AND  ip end     result   mysql query  sql  OR die mysql error      ip detail   mysql fetch assoc  result   if  ip detail       echo  ip detail  country           ip detail  state           ip detail  city      else        Something wrong with IP

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You can get country from IP address with this location API  Code      echo file get contents  https   ipapi co 8 8 8 8 country       Response     US    Here s a fiddle  Response is text when you query a specific field e g  country here  No decoding needed  just plug it into your code    P S  If you want all the fields e g  https   ipapi co 8 8 8 8 json   the response is JSON

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Here is another free API for geolocation requests  http   geoip nekudo com  Responses are in JSON format  Additionally the API sourcecode is available on github in case you need to setup your own API

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If you need to have a good and updated database  for having more performance and not requesting external services from your website  here there is a good place to download updated and accurate databases    I m recommending this because in my experience it was working excellent even including city and country location for my IP which most of other databases apis failed to include report my location except this service which directed me to this database   My ip location was from  Rasht  City in  Iran  when I was testing and the ip was  2 187 21 235 equal to 45815275   Therefore I recommend to use these services if you re unsure about which service is more accurate   Database  http   lite ip2location com databases  API Service  http   ipinfodb com ip location api php

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You can use https   ip-api io  to get country name  city name  latitude and longitude  It supports IPv6   As a bonus it will tell if ip address is a tor node  public proxy or spammer    Php Code    result   json decode file get contents  http   ip-api io json 64 30 228 118     var dump  result     Output      ip    64 30 228 118    country code    US    country name    United States    region code    FL    region name    Florida    city    Fort Lauderdale    zip code    33309    time zone    America New York    latitude   26 1882   longitude   -80 1711   metro code   528   suspicious factors      is proxy   false   is tor node   false   is spam   false   is suspicious   false

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I see there are a lot of answers  but no one of them mentions https   freegeoip net   You re allowed up to 15 000 queries per hour  I think that s enough in most of the cases  Otherwise  you should think about using local databases from MaxMind GeoIP   Freegeoip is open-source and you can find sources on github  deploy it locally and get rid of the query limits   Also  service provides latitude longitude timezone and other useful stuff

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country code   trim file get contents  http   ipinfo io   ip address  country      will get you the country code

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Use the widget www feedsalive com  to get the country informations  amp  last page information as well

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