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shakennotstirred · 09-01-2011, 05:28 AM

Hi,
I'm trying to form a simple geo-targeting call, using hxxp://w_w_w.hostip.info/use.html, in which I insert my site visitor's country into a URL, and act accordingly.

Basically, if you click on hxxp://api.hostip.info/country.php it returns your 2-letter country code, so I would like to do something like:

Code:

$country=include(hxxp://api.hostip.info/country.php);

But of course, this syntax actually returns $country = 1 (success) or 0 (failure).
How do I get it to return $country = US (or UK, or SE etc.)?

Thanks!
Andy

PS - sorry about the hxxp instead of http
I'm not allowed to insert URLs here, but since I just want an aswer, with no spamming intended, I replaced http with hxxp and www with w_w_w

Winleet · 09-02-2011, 04:45 PM

Using include like that simply returns a boolean value of whether the file exists or not.
If you want to use the script, add
include "hxxp://api.hostip.info/country.php";
to the top of your file, then look at country.php and any variables there can be used by your own file.

hoodle · 09-05-2011, 10:44 PM

shakennotstirred, what you want to use is curl, not php include. curl is much more efficient and including remote content is not enabled on all php installations, so it can be unreliable.

You want to do the following:

Quote:

function get_url($url)
{
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}

Rukbat · 09-16-2011, 03:36 PM

If you send the user's IP address properly

Code:

http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=12.215.42.19

It returns the following text:

Code:

Country: UNITED STATES (US)
City: Aurora, TX
IP: 12.215.42.19

It's simple enough to parse out the country or abbreviation from that. Or you can use the XML version

Code:

http://api.hostip.info/?ip=12.215.42.19

to get an XML return which includes <gml:name>(the city), <countryName> and <countryAbbrev> data items.

y8games2012 · 05-14-2012, 06:00 AM

Quote:

$counttry = file_get_contents('hxxp://api.hostip.info/country.php');

if country.php file active . $country will return value