City & Country Location Finding with GeoIP
Posted on January 14, 2008
Following on from a previous post, "PHP Geo-IP Location in 4 lines", I've had a look at stalking people a bit more. Here's how to lookup their location specific to city.
As usual you will need the MaxMind GeoLite City binary database.
Here's the code
country_code . " " . $record->country_code3 . " " . $record->country_name . "";
echo "Region: ".$record->region."";
echo "City: ".$GEOIP_REGION_NAME[$record->country_code][$record->region]." ".$record->city."";
echo "Post Code: ".$record->postal_code."";
echo "Lat: ". $record->latitude."";
echo "Long: ".$record->longitude."";
geoip_close($gi);
?>
You should get results, similar to
Country Code: GB GBR United Kingdom
Region: M6
City: South Gloucestershire Hill
Post Code:
Lat: 51.6514
Long: -2.5156
GB GBR United Kingdom Hill 51.6514 -2.5156
* Remember to keep your MaxMind databases upto date!
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January 14th, 2008 - 21:30
Thanks for this Kieran my son! I had shyed away from MaxMind – perhaps assuming because they had a paid product their free one would be wizzle – but alas i was wrong.
That donate a beer button is awesome haha
January 14th, 2008 - 21:31
Does maxmind not have uk postcode info you think?