Comments on: How to Geolocate Visitors Using an IP-to-Country Database http://www.ardamis.com/2008/01/27/how-to-geolocate-visitors-using-an-ip-to-country-database/ Ardamis is a blog about web development and technology in general. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:06:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bijayani http://www.ardamis.com/2008/01/27/how-to-geolocate-visitors-using-an-ip-to-country-database/#comment-27027 Bijayani Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:40:49 +0000 http://www.ardamis.com/2008/01/27/how-to-geolocate-visitors-using-an-ip-to-country-database/#comment-27027 Hi, I happened to see your post find it quite informative. I would like to share a link where a software engineer has shared a tip on "How to get geographical location of an IP address in PHP?". I am sharing it just for the knowledge purpose. Here is the link: http://www.mindfiresolutions.com/How-to-get-geographical-location-of-an-IP-address-in-PHP-815.php Hope you find it useful and of assistance. Thanks, Bijayani Hi,

I happened to see your post find it quite informative. I would like to share a link where a software engineer has shared a tip on “How to get geographical location of an IP address in PHP?”. I am sharing it just for the knowledge purpose.

Here is the link:
http://www.mindfiresolutions.com/How-to-get-geographical-location-of-an-IP-address-in-PHP-815.php

Hope you find it useful and of assistance.

Thanks,
Bijayani

]]> By: Gil http://www.ardamis.com/2008/01/27/how-to-geolocate-visitors-using-an-ip-to-country-database/#comment-24187 Gil Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:49:00 +0000 http://www.ardamis.com/2008/01/27/how-to-geolocate-visitors-using-an-ip-to-country-database/#comment-24187 so if IP isn't in list example i go from localhost i get result ip not found etc. but on top of page i get error: Warning: mysql_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in C:\wamp\www\ipp.php on line 8 8 line defines: $ccode_array = mysql_fetch_array($country_exec); any help ?! :/ so if IP isn’t in list example i go from localhost i get result ip not found etc. but on top of page i get error:

Warning: mysql_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in C:\wamp\www\ipp.php on line 8

8 line defines: $ccode_array = mysql_fetch_array($country_exec);

any help ?! :/

]]> By: Pix http://www.ardamis.com/2008/01/27/how-to-geolocate-visitors-using-an-ip-to-country-database/#comment-20007 Pix Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:55:50 +0000 http://www.ardamis.com/2008/01/27/how-to-geolocate-visitors-using-an-ip-to-country-database/#comment-20007 Great article. sorry if it s a lame Q - but do oyu have an example where eg .. different pricing is loaded into the same div according to country.. this would be a great little trick to know Great article. sorry if it s a lame Q – but do oyu have an example where eg .. different pricing is loaded into the same div according to country.. this would be a great little trick to know

]]> By: ardamis http://www.ardamis.com/2008/01/27/how-to-geolocate-visitors-using-an-ip-to-country-database/#comment-18560 ardamis Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:18:42 +0000 http://www.ardamis.com/2008/01/27/how-to-geolocate-visitors-using-an-ip-to-country-database/#comment-18560 Is the script giving you an error? I would need to know more about what's happening before I could tell you what's going wrong. But there's actually a method for using Google's Ajax API to identify the visitor's location, down to the city level. This method is probably more accurate and useful, and does not require you to update a database. Read more at http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/documentation/#ClientLocation That's what I would use instead of this PHP/MySQL method. Is the script giving you an error? I would need to know more about
what’s happening before I could tell you what’s going wrong.

But there’s actually a method for using Google’s Ajax API to identify the visitor’s
location, down to the city level. This method is probably more accurate and useful, and does not require you to update a database.

Read more at
http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/documentation/#ClientLocation

That’s what I would use instead of this PHP/MySQL method.

]]> By: Lobo http://www.ardamis.com/2008/01/27/how-to-geolocate-visitors-using-an-ip-to-country-database/#comment-18559 Lobo Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:04:13 +0000 http://www.ardamis.com/2008/01/27/how-to-geolocate-visitors-using-an-ip-to-country-database/#comment-18559 Great tutorial! Thank you. hey I'm trying to use this script to redirect people to specific page if the come from CHINA and I found this script http://www.ip2location.com/articles/article2.htm . I follow your tutorial step by step and I try this is script but it seems that don't work. Any ideas why? you have a forum/ Great tutorial! Thank you.

hey I’m trying to use this script to redirect people to specific page if the come from CHINA and I found this script http://www.ip2location.com/articles/article2.htm . I follow your tutorial step by step and I try this is script but it seems that don’t work. Any ideas why? you have a forum/

]]> By: s3v http://www.ardamis.com/2008/01/27/how-to-geolocate-visitors-using-an-ip-to-country-database/#comment-17486 s3v Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:44:18 +0000 http://www.ardamis.com/2008/01/27/how-to-geolocate-visitors-using-an-ip-to-country-database/#comment-17486 Thanks a lot for this great clean tutorial! Kind regard from Germany :o) Thanks a lot for this great clean tutorial!

Kind regard from Germany :o)

]]> By: bypasser http://www.ardamis.com/2008/01/27/how-to-geolocate-visitors-using-an-ip-to-country-database/#comment-17342 bypasser Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:32:02 +0000 http://www.ardamis.com/2008/01/27/how-to-geolocate-visitors-using-an-ip-to-country-database/#comment-17342 <code> mysql>; LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'ip-to-country.csv' -> INTO TABLE ip2country ->; FIELDS TERMINATED BY "," -> OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY """" -> LINES TERMINATED BY "\n"; Query OK, 87810 rows affected, 65535 warnings (0.18 sec) Records: 87810 Deleted: 0 Skipped: 0 Warnings: 116784 </code> hope it helps.
mysql>; LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'ip-to-country.csv'
-> INTO TABLE ip2country
->; FIELDS TERMINATED BY ","
-> OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY """"
-> LINES TERMINATED BY "\n";
Query OK, 87810 rows affected, 65535 warnings (0.18 sec)
Records: 87810 Deleted: 0 Skipped: 0 Warnings: 116784

hope it helps.

]]> By: bypasser http://www.ardamis.com/2008/01/27/how-to-geolocate-visitors-using-an-ip-to-country-database/#comment-17341 bypasser Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:30:12 +0000 http://www.ardamis.com/2008/01/27/how-to-geolocate-visitors-using-an-ip-to-country-database/#comment-17341 on ssh mysql command this is what I use: <code> LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'ip-to-country.csv' INTO TABLE ip2country FIELDS TERMINATED BY "," OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY """" LINES TERMINATED BY "\n"; </code> ip2country.csv is at root directory. thanks for the code :) on ssh mysql command this is what I use:

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'ip-to-country.csv'
INTO TABLE ip2country
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ","
OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY """"
LINES TERMINATED BY "\n";

ip2country.csv is at root directory.
thanks for the code :)

]]> By: ardamis http://www.ardamis.com/2008/01/27/how-to-geolocate-visitors-using-an-ip-to-country-database/#comment-17148 ardamis Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:23:20 +0000 http://www.ardamis.com/2008/01/27/how-to-geolocate-visitors-using-an-ip-to-country-database/#comment-17148 While I haven't tried it myself, it looks like the Google API offers a much easier way of geo-locating visitors. "When an application makes used of the AJAX API loader, the loader attempts to geo locate the client based on its IP address. If this process succeeds, the client's location, scoped to the metro level, is made available in the <code>google.loader.ClientLocation</code> property. If the process fails to find a match, this property is set to null." <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/documentation/#ClientLocation" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/documentation/#ClientLocation</a> While I haven’t tried it myself, it looks like the Google API offers a much easier way of geo-locating visitors.

“When an application makes used of the AJAX API loader, the loader attempts to geo locate the client based on its IP address. If this process succeeds, the client’s location, scoped to the metro level, is made available in the google.loader.ClientLocation property. If the process fails to find a match, this property is set to null.”

http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/documentation/#ClientLocation

]]> By: Alex http://www.ardamis.com/2008/01/27/how-to-geolocate-visitors-using-an-ip-to-country-database/#comment-17143 Alex Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:12:47 +0000 http://www.ardamis.com/2008/01/27/how-to-geolocate-visitors-using-an-ip-to-country-database/#comment-17143 is there a way to find out which province in canada the user is surfing from? is there a way to find out which province in canada the user is surfing from?

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