Getting visitors country from their IP

PHP
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hi,…
i want to get visitors country via their IP…
right now I’m using this (http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip=)
here’s my code


$ip_arg_1=$_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];
$ip_arg_2=$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
$ip_arg_3=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'])) {$real_ip_adress=$_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];}
else if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'])) {$real_ip_adress=$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];}
else {$real_ip_adress=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];}
$cip=$real_ip_adress;
$iptolocation='http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip='.$cip;
$creatorlocation=file_get_contents($iptolocation);

well, it’s working properly…
but, the thing is: the country i get is actually country code like US or CA…
and i want the whole country name like United States or Canada
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[*]so, is there any good alternative to hostip.info offers this?
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i know that i can just write some code that will eventually turn this two letters to whole country name
but i’m just too lazy to write a code that contains all countries…

P.S: for some reason i don’t want to use any ready made CSV file or any code that will grab this information for me… like ip2country ready made code and CSV

2

Have a look at the following service, it was only a quick search but it looks very promising.

http://ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api_json.php

3

If you use their http://api.hostip.info/get_json.php url, you can get the country_name. You will need to run it through json_decode() so it builds an object you can utilize in PHP, but that shouldn’t be too difficult.