IP information

[windandwaves]

Hi Folk

As part of my statistical analysis of the visitors to my site, I record
people's IP address. Is there an easy way to get more information (where
people are from, maybe even long. and latitude) or perhaps translate the IP
address into a named address?

TIA
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> Nicolaas[/color]

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Re: IP information

windandwaves wrote:[color=blue]
> As part of my statistical analysis of the visitors to my site, I
> record people's IP address. Is there an easy way to get more
> information (where people are from, maybe even long. and latitude) or
> perhaps translate the IP address into a named address?
>[/color]

For the latter, you could use gethostbyaddr() :

http://www.php.net/manual/nl/function.gethostbyaddr.php

To get detailed information, you could use a database service like the one
from maxmind:

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

JW

[Toby Inkster]

Re: IP information

windandwaves wrote:
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> As part of my statistical analysis of the visitors to my site, I record
> people's IP address. Is there an easy way to get more information (where
> people are from, maybe even long. and latitude)[/color]

Google: Geo IP.
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> perhaps translate the IP address into a named address?[/color]

Of course -- it's called DNS.

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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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[windandwaves]

Re: IP information

Janwillem Borleffs wrote:[color=blue]
> windandwaves wrote:[color=green]
>> As part of my statistical analysis of the visitors to my site, I
>> record people's IP address. Is there an easy way to get more
>> information (where people are from, maybe even long. and latitude) or
>> perhaps translate the IP address into a named address?
>>[/color]
>
> For the latter, you could use gethostbyaddr() :
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/nl/function.gethostbyaddr.php[/color]

I searched for IP on php.net, but could not find it. Sorry and thank you
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>
> To get detailed information, you could use a database service like
> the one from maxmind:
>
> http://www.maxmind.com/app/php[/color]

That is just super cool.

Thank you
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> Nicolaas[/color]

[mkwong8888@hotmail.com]

Re: IP information

You can visit http://www.ip2location.com for their free PHP module.