Question

I am trying to use the country detection by IP, an API from http://www.hostip.info/use.html

So if you put in your browser something like:
http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip=12.24.25.26

then the page will write “US”…

Now my question is how can I use this in a IF ELSE lopp in my php code? I think I have to parse that HTML page, but at the moment I have no clue, some help would be appriciated!

Thanks.

Answer 1

Since that page does not output anything other than the country code, there is no parsing required. A simple check on the returned HTML will do it.

<?php
$ip = '12.24.25.26';
$country = file_get_contents('http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip='.$my_ip); // Get the actual HTML

if($country === "US") {
    echo "It is US";
} else {
    echo "It is not US. It is " . $country;
}