IP information

[windandwaves]

Hi Folk

As part of my statistical analysis of the visitors to my site, I record
people's IP address. Is there an easy way to get more information (where
people are from, maybe even long. and latitude) or perhaps translate the IP
address into a named address?

TIA

Nicolaas

[Janwillem Borleffs]

windandwaves wrote:

As part of my statistical analysis of the visitors to my site, I
record people's IP address. Is there an easy way to get more
information (where people are from, maybe even long. and latitude) or
perhaps translate the IP address into a named address?

For the latter, you could use gethostbyaddr():

http://www.php.net/manual/nl/function.gethostbyaddr.php

To get detailed information, you could use a database service like the one
from maxmind:

http://www.maxmind.com/app/php
JW

[Toby Inkster]

windandwaves wrote:

As part of my statistical analysis of the visitors to my site, I record
people's IP address. Is there an easy way to get more information (where
people are from, maybe even long. and latitude)
Google: Geo IP.
perhaps translate the IP address into a named address?

Of course -- it's called DNS.

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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact

[windandwaves]

Janwillem Borleffs wrote:

windandwaves wrote:

As part of my statistical analysis of the visitors to my site, I
record people's IP address. Is there an easy way to get more
information (where people are from, maybe even long. and latitude) or
perhaps translate the IP address into a named address?

For the latter, you could use gethostbyaddr():

http://www.php.net/manual/nl/function.gethostbyaddr.php

I searched for IP on php.net, but could not find it. Sorry and thank you

To get detailed information, you could use a database service like
the one from maxmind:

http://www.maxmind.com/app/php
That is just super cool.

Thank you
Nicolaas

[mkwong8888]

You can visit http://www.ip2location.com for their free PHP module.