ip2country module for PHP.

You can send comments, patches, questions here on github or to erik@mininova.org.

To build the database, run:

cd makedb
make
wget http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoIPCountryCSV.zip
unzip GeoIPCountryCSV.zip
./makedb GeoIPCountryWhois.csv /var/www/geoip.db

Where /var/www/geoip.db is the location where you want to store your database file.

To install the module, run:

phpize
./configure
make
sudo make install

You will need to edit the ip2country.ini file to point to your extension and database file. You can find your extension directory using:

php-config --extension-dir

Now copy ip2country.ini to your php install's configuration directory. On Gentoo this will usually be /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/. On Ubuntu this will be /etc/php5/conf.d

cp ip2country.ini /etc/php5/conf.d/

After restarting php the extension should be working.

The module introduces 3 new functions to php.

mixed ip2country(mixed ip [, bool fullname])
string code2country(string code)
array ip2country_stat()

You can use the ip2country function to get the country code for a specific ip address. If fullname is set to true an array containing both the code and name is returned.

$code = ip2country($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);

The code2country function can be used to look up the full name of a country.

$name = code2country($code);