Free geo-ip for your website (test this)

**Damian_Maxcash** · 10-28-2006, 10:00 PM

Originally posted by SmokeyTheBear

I often see people asking for an easy free solution so here goes
p.s. because its free its not perfect but it also is alot less tasking on your server than most free methods

exampe usage of below code

Hey - its better than the one in your sig!

but I did go to the site and update the record for my IP

Everyone should do that - it might make it worth using on bigger projects.

If it doesn't get yours right click here www.hostip.info and you can change it for them.

**martinsc** · 10-28-2006, 10:03 PM

Hi, I'm Brooke i live in (Unknown city) and i'm super horny

i guess it has some issues with israel....

**Sly** · 10-28-2006, 10:05 PM

Apparently it doesn't know San Diego either.

**Damian_Maxcash** · 10-28-2006, 10:07 PM

Originally posted by Sly

Apparently it doesn't know San Diego either.

Did you go and change it for them?

**woj** · 10-28-2006, 10:09 PM

doesn't work for me either :-/
"Hi, I'm Brooke i live in (Unknown City?) and i'm super horny"

**soulbleed** · 10-28-2006, 10:13 PM

didnt work for me

**Sly** · 10-28-2006, 10:14 PM

I fixed it. Must need a lot of work.

**SmokeyTheBear** · 10-28-2006, 10:16 PM

Originally posted by damian2001

Hey - its better than the one in your sig!

but I did go to the site and update the record for my IP

Everyone should do that - it might make it worth using on bigger projects.

If it doesn't get yours right click here www.hostip.info and you can change it for them.

everyone should go to www.hostip.info and add their city to the list , its a user built databse

**SmokeyTheBear** · 10-28-2006, 10:20 PM

its also got a cool plugin for firefox to show the city location of any link

like this

**Bro Media - BANNED FOR LIFE** · 10-28-2006, 10:24 PM

nice job smokey, ill put it to use

**Evil1** · 10-28-2006, 11:29 PM

New Castle, DE?? 301.68 miles off!

**phasic** · 10-29-2006, 12:52 AM

Thanks smokey, answered my ? directly. Although its extremely faulty. How many people got it right on the first visit with out correcting? I guess if its the only free method thats my only choice though, eh?

**Yngwie** · 10-29-2006, 01:05 AM

Originally posted by woj

doesn't work for me either :-/
"Hi, I'm Brooke i live in (Unknown City?) and i'm super horny"

didn't work for me, but I went to http://www.hostip.info/index.html and added my city to their list and now it works.

**heywood** · 10-29-2006, 01:16 AM

Originally posted by phasic

Thanks smokey, answered my ? directly. Although its extremely faulty. How many people got it right on the first visit with out correcting? I guess if its the only free method thats my only choice though, eh?

Most of the GeoIP stuff out there is less than accurate. I think this is something that will certainly take time to iron out. ISPs pop up switch around so much these days, it seems like it would be a nightmarish database to maintain.

Thanks for the info smokey, I've worked on a couple solutions myself, but yours seems the easiest. I worked with the free version of GeoIPmax and the database version is horrible (took me forever to figure out a good index, and even then it was slow) and the binary version is decent. But I think the one smokey posted above the simplest for our end.

BTW Smokey, would you be willing to verify some code (my zango removal tool (link to thread)) and post the results?

**pornpf69** · 10-29-2006, 04:40 AM

I have their "script" and their free DB on my server

**SmokeyTheBear** · 10-29-2006, 05:53 AM

Originally posted by phasic

Thanks smokey, answered my ? directly. Although its extremely faulty. How many people got it right on the first visit with out correcting? I guess if its the only free method thats my only choice though, eh?

theres a few other free services available , they require a bit more work though , i figured i would post the "easy smeazie" way..

The thing with most geo-ip services is the database is a few mb's so everytime someone hits your script your server has to look thru the db file.. this method is less taxing on your server

**borked** · 10-29-2006, 07:25 AM

Originally posted by SmokeyTheBear

The thing with most geo-ip services is the database is a few mb's so everytime someone hits your script your server has to look thru the db file.. this method is less taxing on your server

Not really - I'm using geoip perl and benchmarking apache with 500k hits on the perl script (lookup on a 25MB city binary database binary) didn't really tax the server at all....

if people like, I'll open it up to all - it's geolite, so it's not 100%.

Hey, if enough people are willing to subscribe at, say $1/10k lookups, I'll get the main, pretty darn accurate maxmind city database...

**Basic_man** · 10-29-2006, 07:34 AM

(Unknow City) ... that's farrrrrrrrrr from here :P

**jesse_adultdatingdollars** · 10-29-2006, 07:43 AM

Works for me in San Diego

**interracialtoons** · 10-29-2006, 08:18 AM

Works for me!

**quantum-x** · 10-29-2006, 08:44 AM

Or even easier:

PHP Code:

preg_match_all('`^[^:]+: (.+)$`misU',file_get_contents('http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip='.$SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].'&position=true'),$matches);

echo $matches[1][0]."<br />";
echo $matches[1][1]."<br />";;

Outputs

AUSTRALIA (AU)
Brisbane

One line solutions rock.

**borked** · 10-29-2006, 12:51 PM

if people are not getting accurate results from hostip.info, the following should be better:

http://geo.corecoder.com/

to test your own ip, or

http://geo.corecoder.com/?ip=xx.xx.xx.xx

to test a specific one.

If you want all data, not just the city, it can be found here:

http://geo.corecoder.com/full?ip=xx.xx.xx.xx

**SmokeyTheBear** · 10-29-2006, 01:03 PM

Originally posted by quantum-x

Or even easier:

PHP Code:

preg_match_all('`^[^:]+: (.+)$`misU',file_get_contents('http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip='.$SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].'&position=true'),$matches);

echo $matches[1][0]."<br />";
echo $matches[1][1]."<br />";;

Outputs

One line solutions rock.

much better and simpler.. i bow to the power of proper php

**starpimps** · 10-29-2006, 11:25 PM

it got me in canada but wrong city

Free geo-ip for your website (test this)

Free geo-ip for your website (test this)

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