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The IP-to-Country Handbook » User's Guide
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Last updated by jinesh on Wed, 12/21/2005 - 07:05
NOTE: Read this first HTTP GET based Web Service is DOWN for now.

IP-to-Country provides a HTTP GET based Web Service to access country information for a particular IP Address.

The format of the request can be one of the following: 
1) http://ip-to-country.directi.com/country/name/IP_ADDRESS
2) http://ip-to-country.directi.com/country/code2/IP_ADDRESS
3) http://ip-to-country.directi.com/country/code3/IP_ADDRESS
In the above URL's IP_ADDRESS has to be replaced with the IP address for which you want to retrive country information.

The first request will return the name of the country while the next two will return the 2 letter and 3 letter country code as defined in the ISO 3166 Country Codes Standard respectively.

In PHP, you can make the first request using the following code snippet: 
$handle = fopen("http://ip-to-country.directi.com/country/name/".$ip, 'r');
echo fgets($handle, 4096);
fclose($handle);
The other two requests can be achieved by simply replacing "name" with either "code2" or "code3".
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    Easily get IP in php
    Posted by Denzo on Fri, 07/18/2003 - 02:35.
    You get the user's IP by using $REMOTE_ADDR
    So this code will load the country name in a string called $country:
    $handle = fopen("http://ip-to-country.directi.com/country/name/".$REMOTE_ADDR, 'r');
    $country = fgets($handle, 4096);
    fclose($handle);


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    HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR
    Posted by sandeep on Fri, 07/18/2003 - 11:03.
    If the user is behind a proxy,
    if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'])) {
  ...
}
    look in $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'] and rule out RFC 1918 IP's. That should leave you with the users real IP address.

    If not, then $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] is what you need.
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    Even simpler
    Posted by nlopes on Sun, 09/07/2003 - 04:21.
    In php just do this:

    $country=file("http://ip-to-country.directi.com/country/name/".$ip);

    (>PHP 3)
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    Re: Even Simpler
    Posted by melchiorus on Sat, 10/04/2003 - 13:29.
    In reply to nlopes post...

    This will work but it will just read the country name into an array so you'll have to add this bit:

    foreach($country as $line) {
    echo $line."\n";
    }

    It would be simpler to just read it using fread and fopen...
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    Re: even more simpler
    Posted by Denzo on Thu, 01/01/2004 - 10:58.
    $ip = ($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'] == "" ? $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] : $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']);
$country = file_get_contents("http://ip-to-country.directi.com/country/name/".$ip);
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    Re: Re: even more correct about quotes and returned values
    Posted by VGR on Sun, 01/25/2004 - 03:15.
    $ip=($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']=="")?$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']:$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
$country=(($poub=file_get_contents("http://ip-to-country.directi.com/country/name/$ip"))<>"")?$poub:'UNKNOWN';

    you could also have mentionend that your solution requires PHP 4.3+ while others' do not. See the online PHP manual for the workaround of file_get_contents() for previous PHP versions.

    Regards

    VGR
    former PHP/MySql/Pascal Guru at experts-exchange.COM, now working for europeanexperts.ORG
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    Beware
    Posted by VGR on Sun, 01/25/2004 - 03:23.
    please also be aware (thanks Jenclod) that you may very well get 'This service is currently down. ' as the country name or code ;-) 
    IP@ *.*.*.* has country 'This service is currently down. '
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    Even simpler
    Posted by Daath on Thu, 04/22/2004 - 16:09.
    Or simpler yet:

    $country = implode('', file("http://ip-to-country.directi.com/country/name/".$ip));

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