Get country name using IP address in php
Geo IP Lookup API
The Geo IP Lookup API provides a variety of lookup methods. Below we will outline the different ways to get data from the Geo IP Lookup tool along with code samples of each:
HTML
The simplest way to get data from the API. There are 4 types of HTML output: countrycode, country, locale, and full.
countrycode
Specify the ipaddress variable and the output variable of countrycode and retrieve the country code for any IP address
http://geoiplookup.net/geoapi.php?output=countrycode&ipaddress=96.254.141.142 will return the following:
Country: US
country
Specify the ipaddress variable and the output variable of country and retrieve the country name for any IP address
http://geoiplookup.net/geoapi.php?output=country&ipaddress=96.254.141.142 will return the following:
Country: United States
locale
Specify the ipaddress variable and the output variable of locale and retrieve the city, region, and country for any IP address
http://geoiplookup.net/geoapi.php?output=locale&ipaddress=96.254.141.142 will return the following:
Country: United States (US)
City: Tampa, Region: FL
full
Specify the ipaddress variable and the output variable of full and retrieve the city, region, country, and latitude and longitude for any IP address
http://geoiplookup.net/geoapi.php?output=full&ipaddress=96.254.141.142 will return the following:
Country: United States (US)
City: Tampa, Region: FL
Latitude: 27.9178 Longitude: -82.3799
JSON
Specify the ipaddress variable and the output variable of json and retrieve a full JSON encoded result set.
http://geoiplookup.net/geoapi.php?output=json&ipaddress=96.254.141.142 will return the following:
{“countryName”:”United States”,”countryCode”:”US”,”cityName”:”Tampa”, “regionName”:”FL”,”areaCode”:”813″,”latitude”:27.9178,”longitude”:-82.3799,”ip”:”96.254.141.142″}
XML
Specify the ipaddress variable and the output variable of xml and receive a full result set in XML format.
http://geoiplookup.net/geoapi.php?output=xml&ipaddress=96.254.141.142
With all API requests, leaving out the ipaddress variable will return a result set using the calling host’s IP address.
Source : http://www.geoiplookup.net/api.php
