geoPlugin Web Service interface to find out location information using php

You can access this service using server IP address.Use PHP reserved variable to get IP.

$what_is_my_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

echo var_export( unserialize( file_get_contents( 'http://www.geoplugin.net/php.gp?ip = '.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] ) ) );

array (
			
			'geoplugin_request' => '182.75.235.222',
			
			'geoplugin_status' => 206,
			
			'geoplugin_credit' => 'Some of the returned data includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind, available from http://www.maxmind.com.',
			
			'geoplugin_city' => '',
			
			'geoplugin_region' => '',
			
			'geoplugin_areaCode' => '0',
			
			'geoplugin_dmaCode' => '0',
			
			'geoplugin_countryCode' => 'IN',
			
			'geoplugin_countryName' => 'India',
			
			'geoplugin_continentCode' => 'AS',
			
			'geoplugin_latitude' => '20',
			
			'geoplugin_longitude' => '77',
			
			'geoplugin_regionCode' => '',
			
			'geoplugin_regionName' => '',
			
			'geoplugin_currencyCode' => 'INR',
			
			'geoplugin_currencySymbol' => '₨',
			
			'geoplugin_currencySymbol_UTF8' => '₨',
			
			'geoplugin_currencyConverter' => '67.8358',
			
)

function getLocationInfoByIp($ip_addr)
{
			
			$return_data = array('country'=>'', 'city'=>'');
			
			$ip_data = @json_decode(file_get_contents("http://www.geoplugin.net/json.gp?ip=".$ip_addr));
			
			if($ip_data && $ip_data->geoplugin_countryName != null)
			
			{
			
			$ret = $ip_data->geoplugin_countryName;
			
			if($ip_data->geoplugin_city != null){
			
			$ret .= ', '.$ip_data->geoplugin_city;
			
			}
			
			return $ret;
		
			}		
}
		$loc=getLocationInfoByIp($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);