Last updated: Fri, 01 Jun 2007

XLVIII. GeoIP Functions

Introduction

The GeoIP extension allows you to find the location of an IP address. City, State, Country, Longitude, Latitude, and other information as all, such as ISP and connection type can be obtained with the help of GeoIP.

Requirements

This extension requires the GeoIP C library version 1.4.0 or higher to be installed. You can grab the latest version from » http://www.maxmind.com/app/c and compile it yourself.

By default, you will only have access to the Free GeoIP Country or GeoLite City databases. While this module can work with other types of database, you must buy a commercial license from » Maxmind.

Installation

This » PECL extension is not bundled with PHP.

Information for installing this PECL extension may be found in the manual chapter titled Installation of PECL extensions. Additional information such as new releases, downloads, source files, maintainer information, and a CHANGELOG, can be located here: » http://pecl.php.net/package/geoip.

Resource Types

This extension has no resource types defined.

Predefined Constants

The constants below are defined by this extension, and will only be available when the extension has either been compiled into PHP or dynamically loaded at runtime.

GEOIP_COUNTRY_EDITION (integer)
GEOIP_REGION_EDITION_REV0 (integer)
GEOIP_CITY_EDITION_REV0 (integer)
GEOIP_ORG_EDITION (integer)
GEOIP_ISP_EDITION (integer)
GEOIP_CITY_EDITION_REV1 (integer)
GEOIP_REGION_EDITION_REV1 (integer)
GEOIP_PROXY_EDITION (integer)
GEOIP_ASNUM_EDITION (integer)
GEOIP_NETSPEED_EDITION (integer)
GEOIP_DOMAIN_EDITION (integer)

The following constants are for net speed:

GEOIP_UNKNOWN_SPEED (integer)
GEOIP_DIALUP_SPEED (integer)
GEOIP_CABLEDSL_SPEED (integer)
GEOIP_CORPORATE_SPEED (integer)

geoip_country_code_by_name — Get the two letter country code
geoip_country_code3_by_name — Get the three letter country code
geoip_country_name_by_name — Get the full country name
geoip_database_info — Get GeoIP Database information
geoip_id_by_name — Get the Internet connection speed
geoip_org_by_name — Get the organization name
geoip_record_by_name — Returns the detailed City information found in the GeoIP Database
geoip_region_by_name — Get the country code and region

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GeoIP Functions

tjmather at maxmind dot com
27-Feb-2007 04:09


The geoip_country_*_by_name functions only work with GeoIP Country.  The geoip_record_by_name function works with GeoIP City.  geoip_region_by_name works with GeoIP Region.  So the API should work with all of the GeoIP databases, as long as you call the correct function.

27-Jan-2007 01:23


I couldn't get it to work with the DMA code database (product ID 137).  It seems to only work with the country database.  The documentation should contain a warning that this code (as of 0.2.0) is incomplete and that Net_GeoIP should be used for non-country databases.

judas dot iscariote at gmail dot com
17-Nov-2006 03:59


If you want to use this extension in SUSE/openSUSE, it is available here:



http://repos.opensuse.org/server:/php:/extensions/

Christian
13-Sep-2006 12:45


Both, Ubuntu and Debian itself make usage of version 1.3.x of the c libraries, so installation can't be done with the debian packages, because configure stops with:

 

== configure: error: You need version 1.4.0 or higher of the C API ==



so you must download it from maxmind.

Matt
08-Sep-2006 08:34


If you are a Debian or Ubuntu user, instead of building it from source, you can: 

aptitude install libgeoip-dev libgeoip1

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