How To Get Visitor’s Country by IP in PHP

This example shows how to get a visitor’s country using their ip in PHP language. This script doesn’t show how to get ip which we will discuss in another article.

<?php
// PHP code to obtain country, city,
// continent, etc using IP Address

$ip = '209.205.218.43';

// Use JSON encoded string and converts
// it into a PHP variable
$ipdat = @json_decode(file_get_contents(
	"http://www.geoplugin.net/json.gp?ip=" . $ip));

echo 'Country Name: ' . $ipdat->geoplugin_countryName . "</br>";
echo 'City Name: ' . $ipdat->geoplugin_city . "</br>";
echo 'Continent Name: ' . $ipdat->geoplugin_continentName . "</br>";
echo 'Latitude: ' . $ipdat->geoplugin_latitude . "</br>";
echo 'Longitude: ' . $ipdat->geoplugin_longitude . "</br>";
echo 'Currency Symbol: ' . $ipdat->geoplugin_currencySymbol . "</br>";
echo 'Currency Code: ' . $ipdat->geoplugin_currencyCode . "</br>";
echo 'Timezone: ' . $ipdat->geoplugin_timezone;

?>

Output in browser: