kieranbarnes

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

<?
include("/usr/local/share-php/geoipcity.inc");
include("/usr/local/share-php/geoipregionvars.php");
 
$gi = geoip_open("/usr/local/share-php/GeoLiteCity.dat",GEOIP_STANDARD);
 
$record = geoip_record_by_addr($gi,$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
 
echo "Country Code: ".$record->country_code . " " . $record->country_code3 . " " . $record->country_name . "<br />";
echo "Region: ".$record->region."<br />";
echo "City: ".$GEOIP_REGION_NAME[$record->country_code][$record->region]." ".$record->city."<br />";
echo "Post Code: ".$record->postal_code."<br />";
echo "Lat: ". $record->latitude."<br />";
echo "Long: ".$record->longitude."<br />";
 
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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