GeoIP Functions

geoip_continent_code_by_name — Get the two letter continent code
geoip_country_code_by_name — Get the two letter country code
geoip_country_code3_by_name — Get the three letter country code
geoip_country_name_by_name — Get the full country name
geoip_database_info — Get GeoIP Database information
geoip_db_avail — Determine if GeoIP Database is available
geoip_db_filename — Returns the filename of the corresponding GeoIP Database
geoip_db_get_all_info — Returns detailed information about all GeoIP database types
geoip_id_by_name — Get the Internet connection speed
geoip_isp_by_name — Get the Internet Service Provider (ISP) name
geoip_org_by_name — Get the organization name
geoip_record_by_name — Returns the detailed City information found in the GeoIP Database
geoip_region_by_name — Get the country code and region
geoip_region_name_by_code — Returns the region name for some country and region code combo
geoip_time_zone_by_country_and_region — Returns the time zone for some country and region code combo

Predefined Constants

geoip_continent_code_by_name

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User Contributed Notes
GeoIP Functions

nandox7 at myrealbox dot com
27-Dec-2008 02:49

The GeoLiteCity free db works and can resolve city names and other informations.

                

                Make sure the instructions are followed regarding it's installation.

                

                http://www.maxmind.com/app/installation?city=1

                

                At step 2 the decompress file must be moved and renamed.

                The files needs to be called GeoIPCity.dat if not the mod_geoip will not find it.

thomas {AT} thomasfischer {D0T} BIZ
08-Apr-2008 12:04

you can use this function to determine the continent of a country:

                

                function getContinentFromCountry($country)

                {

                 $data = array ("AF"=> "AS","AX"=>"EU","AL"=>"EU", "DZ"=>"AF","AS"=>"OC", "AD"=>"EU","AO"=> "AF" ........);

                 return $data[$country];

                }

                

                unfortunately this comment's size is restricted, so you will have the rest by yourself

                

                for example:

                getContinentFromCountry("DE") will result in "EU"

                

                this data is based on

                wikipedia's

                List_of_countries_by_continent_(data_file)

kapouer at melix dot org
01-Mar-2008 03:26

For Debian etch users : libgeoip is in version 1.4 so get the source from lenny (apt-get build-dep libgeoip;apt-get source libgeoip), compile it on etch (dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot in source folder) and install resulting libgeoip1 and libgeo-dev packages (dpkg -i)... Together with php5-dev this package is easy to install (phpize5;./configure --enable-geoip;make;make install)... Then check your install in php with :

                <?php

                    echo geoip_database_info(GEOIP_COUNTRY_EDITION);

                    echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

                    echo geoip_country_code3_by_name($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
 ?>


                please note free .dat is in /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat

                Use geoip-bin package to schedule automatic updates (configure /etc/geoip.default.conf and copy to /etc/geoip.conf, then add a crontab to make the updates...)

                hope this helps

php dot comment dot addition at gmail dot com
11-Jun-2007 03:57

Just to clarify the other comments, the maxmind post seems to be out of date / incorrect. 

                

                This module fails to work (ie: resolve cities) with the GeoLite City database from here:

                http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity

                

                The error occurs when calling the function geoip_record_by_name(), which states incorrectly that the required database is not available.  I have tested it with the very latest database, for which geoip_database_info() returns  the version:

                GEO-533LITE 20070601 Build 1 Copyright (c) 2007 MaxMind LLC All Rights Reserved

                

                It does, however, resolve countries OK via the GeoLite Country database, which you can grab here: http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country

                I tested with the version:

                

                GEO-106FREE 20070601 Build 1 Copyright (c) 2007 MaxMind LLC All Rights Reserved

tjmather at maxmind dot com
27-Feb-2007 04:09

The geoip_country_*_by_name functions only work with GeoIP Country.  The geoip_record_by_name function works with GeoIP City.  geoip_region_by_name works with GeoIP Region.  So the API should work with all of the GeoIP databases, as long as you call the correct function.

27-Jan-2007 01:23

I couldn't get it to work with the DMA code database (product ID 137).  It seems to only work with the country database.  The documentation should contain a warning that this code (as of 0.2.0) is incomplete and that Net_GeoIP should be used for non-country databases.

judas dot iscariote at gmail dot com
17-Nov-2006 03:59

If you want to use this extension in SUSE/openSUSE, it is available here:

                

                http://repos.opensuse.org/server:/php:/extensions/

Christian
13-Sep-2006 12:45

Both, Ubuntu and Debian itself make usage of version 1.3.x of the c libraries, so installation can't be done with the debian packages, because configure stops with:

                 

                == configure: error: You need version 1.4.0 or higher of the C API ==

                

                so you must download it from maxmind.

Matt
08-Sep-2006 08:34

If you are a Debian or Ubuntu user, instead of building it from source, you can:

                aptitude install libgeoip-dev libgeoip1

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