php parse xml from url - php

Question

http://api.hostip.info/?ip=87.14.94.152
From this link (xml) i am tried to retrive countryName and countryAbbrev like this:
$url = 'http://api.hostip.info/?ip=87.14.94.152';
$xml = simplexml_load_file($url) or die("feed not loading");
$Country = $xml->gml['featureMember']->Hostip->countryName;
echo $Country;
echo 'BREAK HTML';
echo "-----";
echo "// "; var_dump($xml); echo " //";
but $Country is blank, any idea about?
thanks in advance

Answer 1

Try this not like an answer, but, just another way to do the same:
$data = file_get_contents('http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=87.14.94.152&position=true');
$arrayofdata = explode("\n", $data);
$country = explode(":", $arrayofdata[0]);
$count = explode(" ", $country[1]);
echo "Country Name: ".$count[1]."</br>"; //Prints ITALY
echo "Country Abbv: ".trim($count[2],"()"); //Prints IT
The position=true url part, it's just in case that you want to retrieve the coordinates.
Cheers ;)

Answer 2

Try this:
$url = 'http://api.hostip.info/?ip=87.14.94.152';
$xml = simplexml_load_file($url) or die("feed not loading");
$fm=$xml->xpath('//gml:featureMember');
print_r($fm[0]->Hostip->countryName);

Answer 3

Make a local copy of the xml and it will work. Just tested this and got the data back:
$url = 'http://api.hostip.info/?ip=87.14.94.152';
$data = file_get_contents($url);
$xml = simplexml_load_file($data) or die("feed not loading");

Answer 4

The countryName node is nested in a deeper level. You can use the children() method to access attributes with colon. Here's how you can get the country name:
$countryName = (string) $xml->children('gml', true)
->featureMember->children('', true)
->Hostip->countryName; // => ITALY
You could also use an XPath expression to retrieve the country name. This is easier:
$hostip = $xml->xpath('//Hostip');
$countryName = $hostip[0]->countryName; // => ITALY
$countryAbbrev = $hostip[0]->countryAbbrev; // => IT

Answer 5

protected function getCountryNameFromIP()
{
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$opts = array(
'http'=>array(
'method'=>"GET",
'header'=>"Accept-language: en\r\n" .
"Cookie: foo=bar\r\n"
)
);
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$answerIP = #file_get_contents("http://api.ipinfodb.com/v3/ip-country/?key=4b585e37503a519a408dc17878e6ec04fa963e1b946c567722538d9431c2d5cb&format=xml&ip=$ip" ,false,$context);
if(isset($answerIP) && $answerIP !="")
{
$theResJ = simplexml_load_string($answerIP);
$last_login_ip_cn = $theResJ->countryName;
/**
* $last_login_ip_cc = $theResJ->countryCode;
* $last_login_ip_rc = $theResJ->regionCode;
* $last_login_ip_rn = $theResJ->regionName;
* $last_login_ip_cp = $theResJ->cityName;
* $last_login_ip_lat = $theResJ->latitude;
* $last_login_ip_lng = $theResJ->longitude;
* $last_login_zip_code= $theResJ->zipCode;
*/
}
else
{
$last_login_ip_cn = "";
/**
* $last_login_ip_cc = "";
* $last_login_ip_rc = "";
* $last_login_ip_rn = "";
* $last_login_ip_cp = "";
* $last_login_ip_lat = "";
* $last_login_ip_lng = "";
* $last_login_zip_code= "";
*/
}
return $last_login_ip_cn;
}
I hope it helps you

Answer 6

I agree. I just tried both answers and got good results. Here is the test code I just ran:
<?php
$url = 'http://api.hostip.info/?ip=87.14.94.152';
// $data = file_get_contents($url);
$xml = simplexml_load_file($url) or die("feed not loading");
// $Country = $xml->gml['featureMember']->Hostip->countryName;
// echo $Country;
echo 'BREAK HTML';
echo "-----";
echo "// "; var_dump($xml); echo " //<br/>";
?><br/><?php
var_dump($xml->gml);
?><br/><?php
print_r($xml);
?><br/><?php
var_dump((string) $xml->gml->featureMember->Hostip->countryName);
?><br/><?php
echo $xml->gml['featureMember']->Hostip->countryName;
$Country = (string) $xml->children('gml', true)
->featureMember->children('', true)
->Hostip->countryName; // => ITALY
echo $Country;
$fm=$xml->xpath('//gml:featureMember');
print_r($fm[0]->Hostip->countryName);
and here are the results output:
BREAK HTML-----// object(SimpleXMLElement)#1 (1) { ["#attributes"]=> array(1) { ["version"]=> string(5) "1.0.1" } } //
object(SimpleXMLElement)#2 (0) { }
SimpleXMLElement Object ( [#attributes] => Array ( [version] => 1.0.1 ) )
string(0) ""
ITALYSimpleXMLElement Object ( [0] => ITALY )