Return data from iplocatethis.com

[rhyspaterson]

Hey guys,

 

iplocatethis.com is a netgeo tool that maps an IP address to it's (general) location. The way it's done is the page returns a longitude and latitude for a submitted IP address. What i wanted to do was to get the data the site returns and store it as a PHP variable.

 

http://www.iplocatethis.com/location.php?ip=203.22.30.33

 

If you then look at the page source you can see the XML data.

 

What i wanted to know was, how can i get the XML data and store it (in the quickest and most effective way)? Any functions that can help me?

 

Cheers,

/Rhys

[MadTechie]

probably pasre the page, using

 

http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php

http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php

then store in a database maybe...

 

the most effective way really depends what you want to do with it,

[rhyspaterson]

Basically i will be pulling about 2,500 IP address from a database (which makes me wonder if IP locate this can handle all those requests, but anyway), i then convert them to lat/long and plot them using google maps

[MadTechie]

or just search for a prebuilt database

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=ip+to+latitude+database

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=ip+to+city+database

http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/

 

 

good luck in your quest //<--where did that come from ?

[dingus]

if you wanted an easy solution my best sergestion as fare as getting the data would be use CURL to get the page its self as it in to a veriable given all you want to do is receave the data as is it isnt all that hard find some details on how to do this here

 

http://au2.php.net/curl

 

once you have it simple use preg match more information on this here

http://au.php.net/preg_match

but you could probably get away with somthing as simple as

$lat = preg_match("/lat=\"(.*)\"", $Body, $matches);

 

would give you the veriable.... what do you think?

[MadTechie]

personally i would use http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php as that what is designed for in this case but instead of DDOSing another server which is probably breaking the T&C's just download your own database