IP-to-Country converter (php script)

ablaye posted this at 06:38 — 17th June 2006.

Joined: Apr 2006

Hi,

I am looking for a PHP script that can take an ip address and return the country where that ip address belongs to.
If you know or have been using such a script, please let me know.

Thanks

Greg K posted this at 07:16 — 17th June 2006.

He has: 2,145 posts

Joined: Nov 2003

What about just calling whois {ip address} from PHP and grabbing the country code.

At least on my server, when I do a whois 130.101.206.49, I get the following (I just posted the first section)

OrgName:    University of Akron
OrgID:      UNIVER-97
Address:    Computer Center
Address:    185 Carroll St
City:       Akron
StateProv:  OH
PostalCode: 44325-3501
Country:    US

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All the tests I just did came back with this format, so I should be able to just go grab the line that starts with COUNTRY:

If you need help on how to do this, let me know.

-Greg