Get country from curl request using php - php

Question

I am working on apps where i try to use curl.Before that i try to use file_get_contents() but that was not working on my server due to allow_url issue ( i tried to contact hosting but not resolve yet so i try alternate ).So i used curl to get data from remote site.I get data using this code :
$url="http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=182.188.193.238";
$ch = curl_init();
// Disable SSL verification
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
// Will return the response, if false it print the response
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Set the url
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
// Execute
$result=curl_exec($ch);
// Closing
curl_close($ch);
print_r($result);
when i print i get Country: PAKISTAN (PK) City: Lahore IP: 182.188.193.238.I want to get the country from this string.I tried like this but get empty result like $data = json_decode($result,true); . Json decode returns empty result.I think only way is to break that string ? Thanks for any hints in advance.I want to get the country name from the result.

Answer 1

As per API doc, You can get also json response using get_json.php
Just used get_json.php instead of get_html.php.
Your code should be :
$url="http://api.hostip.info/get_json.php?ip=182.188.193.238";
$ch = curl_init();
// Disable SSL verification
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
// Will return the response, if false it print the response
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Set the url
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
// Execute
$result=curl_exec($ch);
// Closing
curl_close($ch);
$data = json_decode($result,true);
print_r($data);

Answer 2

Use preg_match
preg_match('/Country: (?P<country>\w+)/', $result, $matches);
print_r($matches);
Output:
Array
(
[0] => Country: PAKISTAN
[country] => PAKISTAN
[1] => PAKISTAN
)
So you would get country name with
$countryName = $matches['country'];
As #hardik solanki said, there is also JSON endpoint get_json.php.
$url = "http://api.hostip.info/get_json.php?ip=182.188.193.238";
To get country from JSON response, use this:
$response = json_decode($result);
$countryName = $response->country_name;

Answer 3

If you don't mind, use get_content
$content = get_content("http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=182.188.193.238");
$country = stristr($content, 'Country: ');
$country = stristr($country, 'City:', true);
$country= ucfirst(str_replace('Country: ', '', $country));
echo $country;