IP Geolocation & IP Location Lookup API

#php #webdev #api

The service IP Geolocation is free for the test and small applications and sites.

Development
Due to powerful and optimized servers located on different continents and productive database, achieve a real response of up to 90 milliseconds in most parts of the world.

PHP Library
Go to Github Project

PHP Function

$ip = "CLIENT_IP_ADDRESS";
$location = get_ipwhois($ip);
$decodedLocation = json_decode($location, true);

echo "<pre>";
print_r($decodedLocation);
echo "</pre>";

function get_ipwhois($ip, $format = "json", $lang = "en") {
    $url = "http://free.ipwhois.io/".$format."/".$ip."?lang=".$lang;
    $cURL = curl_init();

    curl_setopt($cURL, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($cURL, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, true);
    curl_setopt($cURL, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($cURL, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
        'Content-Type: application/json',
        'Accept: application/json'
    ));
    return curl_exec($cURL);
}