Post and request from webpages - php

Question

I have a system which records every member's IP address, browser and operating system.
I would like to somehow implement this.
Is there anyway in which I can post the users IP to their website, pulling values such as ISP and country, and store them in my local MySQL database for quick access when running queries on certain abusive users?

Answer 1

IP to location isn't always accurate and can easily be overcome, but this might help you

Answer 2

PHP has native support for Maxmind's GeoIP services. See this PECL extension for details.

Answer 3

check this site out : http://ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api.php
they offer API to pass an ip address to there services to return geolocation back in either XML/JSON, which can then be parsed on your PHP script.
An example of how to use it looks like this:
<?php
include('ip2locationlite.class.php');
//Load the class
$ipLite = new ip2location_lite;
$ipLite->setKey('<your_api_key>');
//Get errors and locations
$locations = $ipLite->getCity($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
$errors = $ipLite->getError();
//Getting the result
echo "<p>\n";
echo "<strong>First result</strong><br />\n";
if (!empty($locations) && is_array($locations)) {
foreach ($locations as $field => $val) {
echo $field . ' : ' . $val . "<br />\n";
}
}
echo "</p>\n";
//Show errors
echo "<p>\n";
echo "<strong>Dump of all errors</strong><br />\n";
if (!empty($errors) && is_array($errors)) {
foreach ($errors as $error) {
echo var_dump($error) . "<br /><br />\n";
}
} else {
echo "No errors" . "<br />\n";
}
echo "</p>\n";
?>
maybe this will get you moving in the right direction?

Answer 4

If you really want to pull data from http://www.iplocation.net/, then here is a quick dirty function. but to use this function you need to download and include PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser
Here is the code
<?php
require_once( "path to simplehtmldom.php" );
$ip_info = ip_info( "223.196.190.40", 1 );
print_r( $ip_info );
/**
* It will output...
Array
(
[IP Address] => 223.196.190.40
[Country] => India
[Region] => Maharashtra
[City] => Pune
[ISP] => Idea Isp Subscriber Ip Pool
)
**/
/**
* ip_info()
* #param $ip - IP address you want to fetch data from
* #param $provider IP provider ( 1 = IP2Location, 2 = IPligence, 3 = IP Address Labs, 4 = MaxMind )
* #return array
*/
function ip_info( $ip = "127.0.0.1", $provider = 1 ) {
$indx = array(
1 => 10,
2 => 11,
3 => 12,
4 => 13
);
$data = array();
$url = "http://www.iplocation.net/index.php";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT, true );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE, true );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, false );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2 );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, false );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $url );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POST, true );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "query=".urlencode( $ip )."&submit=Query" );
$response = curl_exec( $ch );
$html = str_get_html( $response );
if ( $table = $html->find( "table", $indx[$provider] ) ) {
if ( $tr1 = $table->find( "tr", 1 ) ) {
if ( $headers = $tr1->find( "td" ) ) {
foreach( $headers as $header ) {
$data[trim( $header->innertext )] = null;
}
}
}
if ( $tr2 = $table->find( "tr", 3 ) ) {
reset( $data );
if ( $values = $tr2->find( "td" ) ) {
foreach( $values as $value ) {
$data[key( $data )] = trim( $value->plaintext );
next( $data );
}
}
}
}
unset( $html, $table, $tr1, $tr2, $headers, $values );
return $data;
}
?>