get ip address Location City

[proctk]

Hi

 

I have been to website that show my Ip address, flag and city location.  How do I do this so that I can get the vistors city and assign it to a variable so that I can use it in a mysql query.

 

I found this website but can not figure out how they are doing it.

 

http://www.hostip.info/use.html

 

any help is excellent

[suttercain]

When I read your question I didn't think they could look-up my location, but after visiting that site, I know they can't.

 

When I visited it said:

 

"Reston, VA, UNITED STATES

IP found in 0.0079 seconds"

 

I am in San Dimas, CA (Los Angeles) not Reston, VA.

 

UPDATE:

Upon further investigation I see what they are doing. They are building their own database, where the users enter the information for their IP address. Based on that they run a script which tries to guess your location based on previous entires. This is obviously an inaccurate way of determining an IP address, since they got mine wrong.

 

I would guess the more user submitted info they get the more accurate it will become in the future.

 

But there is now way to just get an IP and say you're here.

[proctk]

I'm thinking that the company that owns or registered your ip address in in the place that it show.  I still want to know how they get that information. 

[neel_basu]

I think they either they have edited geoIP dat File by themselves and then using that.

or Maxmind IP Database (they have edited that)

It didn't Show my location correctly

I am From India -> Calcutta they Shown India -> Tiruchirapally

mile away from my location

[clown[NOR]]

they got the ip and country right on me... but the city...hehe...ehm... it's on the other side of norway from where I live...

[suttercain]

Yeah, what they do, is if it is wrong they ask you to submit the correct city and country. They then save that data to their database and use a comparison in the future for someone who may come with a similar IP.

[neel_basu]

link=topic=136132.msg574944#msg574944 date=1176659990]

they got the ip and country right on me... but the city...hehe...ehm... it's on the other side of norway from where I live...

Its Simple probability of getting errors in country in very very low. where as its high in case of city.

GeoIp is the best Solution.

[proctk]

I'v played around with geoip i get the coordinates but don't know how to change them into someones location

[proctk]

here is a link to the tutorial

 

http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/332

[ted_chou12]

please try this script and tell me if it works or not:

<?php 
$ip = $_GET['ip'];
$content = file("http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=$ip&position=true");
$country = str_replace("Country: ", "", $content[0]);
$city = str_replace("City: ", "", $content[1]);
$lat = str_replace("Latitude: ", "", $content[2]);
$long = str_replace("Longitude: ", "", $content[3]);
echo "Country: $country<br />";
echo "City: $city<br />";
echo "Google Map: <a href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=$lat,$long\">Link</a><br />";
?>

[suttercain]

I tried it, and it again gives me

 

Country: UNITED STATES (US)

City: Reston, VA

Google Map: Link

 

Which I guess is where they think I am....

 

But the code seems to work for the most part.

[ted_chou12]

thanks, i see.

[proctk]

Thank you for the help that worked excellent, for the people that get a different city I'm thinking its because the persons ISP head office is in that city and that is here that ip addess is assigned.  this is just an educated guess