Detect location by IP using php code

Here is an useful code snippet to detect the location of a specific IP. The function below takes one IP as a parameter, and returns the location of the IP. If no location is found, UNKNOWN is returned.




function detect_city($ip) {

$default = 'UNKNOWN';

if (!is_string($ip) || strlen($ip) < 1 || $ip == '127.0.0.1' || $ip == 'localhost') $ip = '8.8.8.8'; $curlopt_useragent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)'; $url = 'http://ipinfodb.com/ip_locator.php?ip=' . urlencode($ip); $ch = curl_init(); $curl_opt = array( CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => 1,
CURLOPT_HEADER => 0,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => $curlopt_useragent,
CURLOPT_URL => $url,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 1,
CURLOPT_REFERER => 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'],
);

curl_setopt_array($ch, $curl_opt);

$content = curl_exec($ch);

if (!is_null($curl_info)) {
$curl_info = curl_getinfo($ch);
}

curl_close($ch);

if ( preg_match('{

City : ([^<]*)

}i', $content, $regs) ) {
$city = $regs[1];
}
if ( preg_match('{

State/Province : ([^<]*)

}i', $content, $regs) ) {
$state = $regs[1];
}

if( $city!='' && $state!='' ){
$location = $city . ', ' . $state;
return $location;
}else{
return $default;
}

}