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Posted: **Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:13 am**

How difficult would it be to mod the Extended Statistics plug-in to decode (to the best of ability) the location where the IP address is coming from? For example, using the http://hostip.info site:

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http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=68.3.50.93

returns

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Country: UNITED STATES (US)
City: Phoenix, AZ

I'm by no means a PHP programmer, but I've tinkered and modified Gallery in the past for my purposes. However, in this case, I'm stuck on how I could capture the output from the URL and put it into the output being generated by the script.

We're running Serendipity to follow our pregnancy, and it's interesting to see who's coming in and hitting the site. I know I can't tell exactly who it is, but usually we can figure out by the ISP info on the hostname and knowing what service some family members are on.

Anyhow, any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

--Gary

Posted: **Sun Oct 08, 2006 10:08 pm**

I had a look at my installation of Mint (which collects statistics) at one of the plugins called Geomint (which is a free plugin) that does just what you're looking for using hostip.info:

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 /**************************************************************************
   queryHostIP($ip_adr)
    This is the function which queries HostIP.info and stores the data in our
    local db
  **************************************************************************/
  function queryHostIP($ip_adr) {
    $ip_adr_ip = long2ip($ip_adr);
    $tbl_Prefix = $this->Mint->db['tblPrefix'];
    
    $useCURL = in_array('curl', get_loaded_extensions());
    
    $host     = 'api.hostip.info';
    $gateway  = '/get_html.php';
    $post     =  'ip='.$ip_adr_ip.'&position=true';
    $data = '';
        
    if ($useCURL) {
      //Use cURL
      $handle	 = curl_init();
      curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_URL, "http://{$host}{$gateway}");
      curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 4);
      curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
      
      curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POST, true);
      curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
      
      $data = curl_exec($handle);
      if (curl_errno($handle))
      {
        $error = 'Could not connect to Gateway (using cURL): '.curl_error($handle);
      }
      curl_close($handle);
    }
    else
    {
      //Use fopen
      $handle = fopen("http://{$host}{$gateway}?{$post}", 'rb');  // open connection to hostip.info
      
      while (!feof($handle)) {
        $data .= fread($handle, 8192);      // getting the data
      }
      fclose($handle);
    }
        
            
    global $country, $country_abrv, $city, $lat, $long;     // defining global vars. BETTER SOLUTION?

        
    $pos = strpos($data, "City:");
    $tmp_string = substr($data, 0, $pos);
    $tmp_string = trim($tmp_string);
    $tmp_string = substr($tmp_string, 9, strlen($tmp_string));
        
    $country = substr($tmp_string, 0, strpos($tmp_string, "("));
    $country = mysql_escape_string($country);
        
    $country_abrv = substr($tmp_string, strpos($tmp_string, "("), strlen($tmp_string));
    $country_abrv = trim($country_abrv, "()");
        
    $tmp_string = substr($data, $pos, strpos($data, "Latitude:") - $pos);
    $city = substr($tmp_string, 5, strlen($tmp_string));
    $city = trim($city);
    $city = mysql_escape_string($city);
        
    $tmp_string = substr($data, strpos($data, "Latitude:"), strlen($data));
    $lat = substr($tmp_string, 9, strpos($tmp_string, "Longitude:") - 9);
    $lat = trim($lat);
        
    $tmp_string = substr($tmp_string, strpos($tmp_string, "Longitude:"), strlen($tmp_string));
    $long = substr($tmp_string, 10, strlen($tmp_string));
    $long = trim($long);
        
    if ($lat == NULL) {                                     // if no geodata is present, set to zero. MAYBE NULL?
      $lat = 0;
    }
        
    if ($long == NULL) {                                    // same here
      $long = 0;
    }

    $query_hostip = "INSERT INTO {$tbl_Prefix}geo (ip, country, country_abrv, city, latitude, longitude)
                     VALUES ('$ip_adr', '$country', '$country_abrv', '$city', $lat, $long)"; // storing data in db
        
    $result_hostip = $this->query($query_hostip);        // do the query, baby!
    return;
  }

Posted: **Mon Oct 09, 2006 6:10 pm**

Thanks, azel, I'll give it a try!

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