README.htm
Requirements
None (only the 'GeoIP.dat' file is needed). To download a free GeoIP Standard Country
database, go to
http://maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/
Install
Just place the 'geoip.inc' file somewhere according to the 'include_path' directive of
your 'php.ini' file, or just place it in the same directory as your PHP scripts.
Usage
Gets country name by hostname :
include("geoip.inc");
$gi = geoip_open("/usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat",GEOIP_STANDARD);
echo geoip_country_code_by_addr($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 to the second argument of geoip_open
For GEOIP_SHARED_MEMORY, requires php >= 4.0.4,
and --enable-shmop passed at 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.
Working with PHP5.
geoip_country_code_by_addr should work
with PHP. For help with the other
routines, please contact support@maxmind.com
Thanks to Jim Winstead.