PHP Tutorials Code Snippets and Php Tips » detect visitor country http://readytousesolutions.com/phpblog PHP tutorials - Examples of the most useful scripts Thu, 23 Sep 2010 06:54:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 PHP Tutorial : Detect visitor country by ip address http://readytousesolutions.com/phpblog/php-tutorial-detect-visitor-country-by-ip-address/ http://readytousesolutions.com/phpblog/php-tutorial-detect-visitor-country-by-ip-address/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:02:52 +0000 admin http://www.crivionweb.com/phpblog/?p=119 Continue reading →]]> Well, well, well,
It seems a “global” interests in this php script to detect visitors country, so, I decided to write a guide on how you could get it done.
There is a free solution to detect visitors country by ip address, called maxmind geoip which you can see and get here http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecountry
Whats needed? Download the CSV file, then import it via PhpMyAdmin application or simple mysql console into a new database.
After that, you can use it to do simple queries to detect a country via an ip address. You can see examples on maxmind’s website too.

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