Problems with file_get_contents()....

[Pheddy]

Hey i tried this code to get the country and IP via PHP (from: http://roshanbh.com.np/2008/07/getti...ss-in-php.html)

function countryCityFromIP($ipAddr)
{
//function to find country and city from IP address
//Developed by Roshan Bhattarai http://roshanbh.com.np
 
//verify the IP address for the
ip2long($ipAddr)== -1 || ip2long($ipAddr) === false ? trigger_error("Invalid IP", E_USER_ERROR) : "";
$ipDetail=array(); //initialize a blank array
 
//get the XML result from hostip.info
$xml = file_get_contents("http://api.hostip.info/?ip=".$ipAddr);
 
//get the city name inside the node <gml:name> and </gml:name>
preg_match("@<Hostip>(\s)*<gml:name>(.*?)</gml:name>@si",$xml,$match);
 
//assing the city name to the array
$ipDetail['city']=$match[2]; 
 
//get the country name inside the node <countryName> and </countryName>
preg_match("@<countryName>(.*?)</countryName>@si",$xml,$matches);
 
//assign the country name to the $ipDetail array
$ipDetail['country']=$matches[1];
 
//get the country name inside the node <countryName> and </countryName>
preg_match("@<countryAbbrev>(.*?)</countryAbbrev>@si",$xml,$cc_match);
$ipDetail['country_code']=$cc_match[1]; //assing the country code to array
 
//return the array containing city, country and country code
return $ipDetail;
 
}
 
$IPDetail=countryCityFromIP('12.215.42.19'); 
echo $IPDetail['country']; //country of that IP address 
echo $IPDetail['city']; //outputs the IP detail of the city

..But Apaches says

ERROR: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: file_get_contents() in c:\apache\htdocs\test_pages\browser_getipandcountr y.php on line 13

Seems to get this everytime i use file_get_contents().. Any idea here?

Thanks again!
Frederik

[Atli]

Hi.

That's weird. The file_get_contents function is a part of the PHP core. It should always be available.

Which version of PHP are you using?
Did you set this server up yourself, or are you using a host?
Did you perhaps build PHP yourself?

[Pheddy]

I am fairly new to PHP and use the easy setup PHPTriad 2.2.. Developer says it uses the most updated version of PHP..

I have copied the code exactly like it is discribed in post. Since I can free myself for noob writings :D then it must be the php version or?

[Atli]

I've never heard of PHPTriad before, but the sourceforge site says it is in beta.
Perhaps there are some bugs lurking around in it that are causing this issue.

You might want to try a more mature installer, like XAMP.

[Pheddy]

PHPTriad 2.2 was the problem it is now fixed with XAMP...
Thanks for your reply!

Frederik

[Atli]

Glad I could be of help :)
See you around.

[Markus]

It was last updated in 2002.. that should be a slight give away ;)