Thread: Geographical location of visitors

Maybe some of you want to use the geographical location of visitors, for different purposes. For this you need to process geographical location from one of the sites have a database that provides information approximate.

In this article we will draw the country (and city) of origin and geographical location on IPinfodb

In one of our recent articles we have learned how to take over a page's response. In this article we learned when we use the function to retrieve the site's response.
Code:

<?php
function getGeoLocation()
{
$response = getResponsePage("http://ipinfodb.com/ip_query.php?ip=".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);

preg_match("/<Latitude>(.*?)<\/Latitude>/",$response,$lat);
preg_match("/<Longitude>(.*?)<\/Longitude>/",$response,$long);

$location = $lat[1].",".$long[1];

return htmlspecialchars($location);
}
?>

To find out the geographic location all you have to do is to appeal getGeoLocation function ().
Code:

<?php
function getGlobalLocation()
{
$response = getResponsePage("http://ipinfodb.com/ip_query.php?ip=".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
preg_match("/<CountryName>(.*?)<\/CountryName>/",$response,$country);

return htmlspecialchars($country[1]);
}
?>

To find the location of the world (country) will have to resort getGlobalLocation function ().

Thank YOu.....This is very good....I will surely use this

Another option would be to use the google maps API to get exact locations via longitude and latitude

this is good..nice..i will work on it...