code for finding the state,country,city from the IP Adress in php

Question

Sir, I developing a site. In which i get the IP addresses of the users from where they are entered. Now i want to find the State,City and country from where they are entering.That means i want to find the state, country, city from the IP address of the user. the code i need in php. can you help me to do that

Answer 1

Have you looked at using the Geo IP module? For example, the geoip_region_by_name() function:

The geoip_region_by_name() function will return the country and region corresponding to a hostname or an IP address.

This function is currently only available to users who have bought a commercial GeoIP Region Edition. A warning will be issued if the proper database cannot be located.

The names of the different keys of the returning associative array are as follows:

• "country_code" -- Two letter country code (see geoip_country_code_by_name())
• "region" -- The region code (ex: CA for California)

Answer 2

http://www.hostip.info/ is another option if geoip isn't available.