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Detect location by IP (City, State)
function detect_city($ip) {
$default = 'Hollywood, CA';
if (!is_string($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('{
<ul>
<li>City : ([^&lt;]*)</li>
</ul>
}i', $content, $regs) ) { $city = $regs[1]; } if ( preg_match('{
<ul>
<li>State/Province : ([^&lt;]*)</li>
</ul>
&nbsp;
}i', $content, $regs) ) { $state = $regs[1]; } if( $city!='' &amp;&amp; $state!='' ){ $location = $city . ', ' . $state; return $location; }else{ return $default; } }
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