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**darmar** · 07-30-2007, 06:55 AM

Hi

I need a little help.

I'm using
http://api.hostip.info/country.php
to fetch the locale of the visitor.

I'd like to fetch this through my PHP script, with something like this:
$locale = @file("http://api.hostip.info/country.php");

But, then this web service doesn't fetch my visitors location, but my web server location.

I need tihs to programatically set the default language for my multilanguage website.

Does anybody have any idea how to "fix" this ?

Thank you

**harleyx** · 07-30-2007, 10:00 AM

http://www.hostip.info/use.html

Quote:

Simple GET
That said, there is an easy HTTP oriented API to locate IP addresses and Geocode them. If you don't supply the "?ip=aa.bb.cc.dd" bit, then the ip address lookup of the calling machine will be located instead (here, the aa,bb,cc,dd are decimal digits). If you add &position=true to the end of the URL then latitude and longitude will be returned also. Both HTML and XML formats are supplied for your convenience.

In short, you need to include in the get the IP address of the user hitting your site in a URL passed variable like:

Code:

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$url = 'http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=$ip';

**darmar** · 07-30-2007, 10:46 AM

Yup, that's it, I forgot about it.... I'm screeming to myself now - RTFM !!!!

Thanks !