GeoIP tagging - Where to start?

by Stan Kilgore on Feb 21st, 2010

If you ever go to http://www.hostip.info/, you will find a Community Geotarget IP Project. The great thing about it is that it is free to use.

Now, this is just a snippet of code to begin working in the world of GeoIPs. There's a lot more info to be gotten, and if you go to http://www.hostip.info/use.html, you will find many different ways of calling the information that you need.

Just my 2¢. Thought I'd share.

PHP Code Snippet (Toggle Plain Text)

<?php
 
$ip = getenv('REMOTE_ADDR');
$url = "http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?".$ip;
 
$contents = file_get_contents($url);
$values = split("[\n|\r]",$contents);
 
foreach($values as $vals) {
	$myvalues = split(": ",$vals);
	$line = "<strong>".$myvalues[0].":</strong> ".$myvalues[1]."<br />";
	echo $line;
}
 
?>