Get country location of an IP with native PHP
- by Mint
Read on before you say this is a duplicate, it's not. (as far as I could see)
I want to get the county code in php from the client.
Yes I know you can do this using external sites or with the likes of "geoip_record_by_name" but I don't want to be dependent on an external site, and I can't install "pear" for php as im using shard Dreamhost hosting.
I thought I could just do something like this:
$output = shell_exec('whois '.$ip.' -H | grep country | awk \'{print $2}\'');
echo "<pre>$output</pre>";
But dreamhost seems to have an old version of whois (4.7.5), so I get this error on allot of IPs:
Unknown AS number or IP network. Please upgrade this program.
So unless someone knows how to get a binary of a newer version of whois onto dreamhost im stuck.
Or is there another way I could get the country code from the client who is loading the page?
