Getting country from IP address

[runway27]

i am using $ip= $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] to retrieve the ip address of the client for example if the value returned from $ip

is 50.160.190.150

i would like to find out which country the request has come from. i believe by using the third set of numbers (in this case=190) from an ip address we can find out the country name. i can declare a variable with a list of country names and the range of values, what i need help is to extract the 3rd set of numbers from $ip.

as ip address keep changing the 3rd set of numbers can be single, double or 3 digit number how can we extract the number that is stored in $ip after the second dot and before the third dot

please advice.

thanks.

[realin]

hey this lil piece of code may help you, if i understood your problem correctly.

[PHP]<?php

$ip="50.160.190 .150";
$str=explode(". ",$ip);
echo "This will always give you the number that is stored in $ip after the second dot and before the third dot ".$str[2];
?>[/PHP]

cheers !!

[nitinpatel1117]

The third part of an IP addresses doesn't give you the country of the user.

You have to use the whole IP address, i.e. all four numbers.
against a database of IP ranges that are allocated to certain Internet services providers (ISP). ISPs in them selves are only allocated a set of IP ranges in a country or region. Or something along those lines.

see http://www.iana.org/numbers/

[pbmods]

Heya, Runway.

You can use PHP's GeoIP extension to do this (http://php.net/geoip).

[chrislim2888]

You need the entire IP address to get the country, city or region information.

Check this http://www.fraudlabs.com for free license, and http://www.ip2location.com for paid license