Geo Location By IP

Category:Contributions::Plugins::Miscellaneous | Category:Plugin::Geo Locator

[b]A simple plug-in to get user's geo location details by current/given IP address[/b]

Following plug-in is based on [url=http://ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api.php] IP Address Geolocation XML API[/url]

Copy the code and create a file as [em]geo_location_pi.php[/em], Place the file into your system/plugins folder.

[code] <?php if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

/**

• Geo Location Plugin
• @package CodeIgniter
• @subpackage System
• @category Plugin
• @author Shadhiq.S */

// ------------------------------------------------------------------------

/*
Instructions:

Load the plugin using:

 $this->load->plugin('geo_location');

Once loaded you can get user's geo location details by IP address

$ip = $this->input->ip_address();
$geo_data = geolocation_by_ip($ip);

echo "Country code : ".$geo_data['country_name']."\n";
echo "Country name : ".$geo_data['city']."\n";
...

NOTES:

The get_geolocation function will use current IP address, if IP param is not given.

RETURNED DATA

The get_geolocation() function returns an associative array with this data:

[array] ( 'ip'=>$ip, 'country_code'=>$result->CountryCode, 'country_name'=>$result->CountryName, 'region_name'=>$result->RegionName, 'city'=>$result->City, 'zip_postal_code'=>$result->ZipPostalCode, 'latitude'=>$result->Latitude, 'longitude'=>$result->Longitude, 'timezone'=>$result->Timezone, 'gmtoffset'=>$result->Gmtoffset, 'dstoffset'=>$result->Dstoffset ) */

/**

• Get Geo Location by Given/Current IP address

• @access public

• @param string

• @return array */ if (!function_exists('get_geolocation')) {

  function get_geolocation($ip) { $d = file_get_contents("http://www.ipinfodb.com/ip_query.php?ip=$ip&output=xml"&#41;;

   //Use backup server if cannot make a connection
   if (!$d) {
       $backup = file_get_contents("http://backup.ipinfodb.com/ip_query.php?ip=$ip&output=xml");
       $result = new SimpleXMLElement($backup);
       if (!$backup)
           return false; // Failed to open connection
   } else {
       $result = new SimpleXMLElement($d);
   }
   //Return the data as an array
   return array('ip'=>$ip, 'country_code'=>$result->CountryCode, 'country_name'=>$result->CountryName, 'region_name'=>$result->RegionName, 'city'=>$result->City, 'zip_postal_code'=>$result->ZipPostalCode, 'latitude'=>$result->Latitude, 'longitude'=>$result->Longitude, 'timezone'=>$result->Timezone, 'gmtoffset'=>$result->Gmtoffset, 'dstoffset'=>$result->Dstoffset);
  

  } } /* End of file geo_location_pi.php / / Location: ./system/plugins/geo_location_pi.php */ [/code]