MaxMind GeoIP PHP API

Requirements

This module has no external dependencies. You only need a MaxMind GeoIP database. To download a free GeoIP Standard Country database, please see our GeoLite page.

Install via Composer

We recommend installing this package with Composer.

Download Composer

To download Composer, run in the root directory of your project:

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

You should now have the file composer.phar in your project directory.

Install Dependencies

Run in your project root:

php composer.phar require geoip/geoip:~1.14

You should now have the files composer.json and composer.lock as well as the directory vendor in your project directory. If you use a version control system, composer.json should be added to it.

Require Autoloader

After installing the dependencies, you need to require the Composer autoloader from your code:

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

Install without Composer

Place the 'geoip.inc' file in the include_path as specified in your php.ini file or place it in the same directory as your PHP scripts.

Usage

Gets country name by hostname :

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$gi = geoip_open("/usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat",GEOIP_STANDARD);

echo geoip_country_code_by_addr($gi, "24.24.24.24") . "\t" .
     geoip_country_name_by_addr($gi, "24.24.24.24") . "\n";
echo geoip_country_code_by_addr($gi, "80.24.24.24") . "\t" .
     geoip_country_name_by_addr($gi, "80.24.24.24") . "\n";

geoip_close($gi);

Memory Caching

To enable memory caching, pass GEOIP_SHARED_MEMORY or GEOIP_MEMORY_CACHE as the second argument of geoip_open.

GEOIP_SHARED_MEMORY requires php >= 4.0.4 compiled with --enable-shmop configure time. See (http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.shmop.php). In addition, you should call geoip_load_shared_mem before calling geoip_open. See sample_city.php for an example of shared memory caching.

Support

For help with this API or our databases, please see [our support page] (http://www.maxmind.com/en/support).

Copyright and License

This software is Copyright (c) 2013 by MaxMind, Inc.

This is free software, licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 or later.

Thanks

Thanks to Jim Winstead.