Country Services

gistfile1.php

// get country code of site visitor
function getByVisitor()
{
	if (array_key_exists( '__COUNTRY__', $_SESSION ))
	{
		return $_SESSION[ '__COUNTRY__' ];
	}
	elseif ($host=gethostbyaddr(Application::getIP()) and substr($host, -3, 1)=='.' and $country=substr($host, -2) and $country=Countries::make()->findLike('code', $country)->first()->code)
	{
		return $_SESSION[ '__COUNTRY__' ]=$country;
	}
	elseif ($country=self::fetchByIp(Application::getIp()) and $country!='XX')
	{
		return $_SESSION[ '__COUNTRY__' ]=$country;
	}
	else
	{
		return $_SESSION[ '__COUNTRY__' ]=null;
	}
}

// remote country fetch by IP address of visitor
function fetchByIp($ip)
{
	$ch = curl_init();
	$timeout = 5;
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip=' . $ip);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)'); 
	$country = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	return $country;
}