Getting latitude, longitude, timezone using ip address.

This is a post to find the latitude, longitude, timezone, country, city and so on using the web services/api by ipinfodb. The ipinfodb provides api in both xml and json format. We can use either of them. I will show you how to use it for both formats.

Using XML format:

You can either register for api key from ipinfodb. I am using mine in this example.

$key="9dcde915a1a065fbaf14165f00fcc0461b8d0a6b43889614e8acdb8343e2cf15";
$ip= "208.115.219.10";

$url = "http://api.ipinfodb.com/v3/ip-city/?key=$key&ip=$ip&format=xml";

// load xml file
$xml = simplexml_load_file($url);
// print the name of the first element
echo $xml->getName() . "<br />";
// create a loop to print the element name and data for each node
foreach($xml->children() as $child)
  {
  echo $child->getName() . ": " . $child . "<br />";
  }

Output

Response
statusCode: OK
statusMessage:
ipAddress: 208.115.219.10
countryCode: US
countryName: UNITED STATES
regionName: NEW JERSEY
cityName: FLEMINGTON
zipCode: 08822
latitude: 40.5207
longitude: -74.8671
timeZone: -05:00

Using JSON format

$key="9dcde915a1a065fbaf14165f00fcc0461b8d0a6b43889614e8acdb8343e2cf15";
$ip=$_POST['address'];

$url = "http://api.ipinfodb.com/v3/ip-city/?key=$key&ip=$ip&format=json";

$cont = file_get_contents($url);
 $data = json_decode($cont , true);

if(strlen($data['latitude']))
    {
    $result = array(
        'ip' => $data['ipAddress'] ,
        'country_code' => $data['countryCode'] ,
        'country_name' => $data['countryName'] ,
        'region_name' => $data['regionName'] ,
        'city' => $data['cityName'] ,
        'zip_code' => $data['zipCode'] ,
        'latitude' => $data['latitude'] ,
        'longitude' => $data['longitude'] ,
        'time_zone' => $data['timeZone'] ,
    );
    }
    print_r($result);

Output

Array ( [ip] => 208.115.219.10 [country_code] => US [country_name] => UNITED STATES [region_name] => NEW JERSEY [city] => FLEMINGTON [zip_code] => 08822 [latitude] => 40.5207 [longitude] => -74.8671 [time_zone] => -05:00 )