Question

I’m using free API services to provide me informations about location of IPs
and here is the code i’m using

$api = file_get_contents('http://api_site.com?ip=XX.XX.XX.XX');
// WHERE XX.XX.XX.XX Is IP and api_site.com is my provider

The output is as following (this is on me)

OK;XX.XX.XX.XX;EG;EGYPT;AL QAHIRAH;CAIRO;+02:00
// ok , IP , Country code , Country , Region , City , Time zone GMT

Now how to get the following output into array so i can easily show it up
I’ve used the following code.

$api = file_get_contents('http://api_site.com?ip=XX.XX.XX.XX');
$info = array_shift(explode(";", api));
$message = "$info";
// Output is just "OK"
//OK;XX.XX.XX.XX;EG;EGYPT;AL QAHIRAH;CAIRO;+02:00
// I want get all sperated

so is there any way i can explode by ; and get all and be able to show up
~ thanks

Answer 1

why are you using array_shift?
that function will return the first element of the array removing it from the array itself.
This shoul be enough:

$api = file_get_contents('http://api_site.com?ip=XX.XX.XX.XX');
$info = explode(";", $api);

if you want to print out the results all together the you need to use implode function, which has the same parameters as explode