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imbondbaby
imbondbaby

Reputation: 6411

Create a log of users country from their IP

I am using this function to get the two-letter country code:

$ipaddress = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
function ip_details($ip) {
    $json = file_get_contents("http://ipinfo.io/{$ip}");
    $details = json_decode($json);
    return $details;
}

$details = ip_details($ipaddress);
echo $details->country;

Output:

US // Two-letter Country Code

And to make a log in a file, I was thinking of using something like this:

$file = 'visitors.txt';
file_put_contents($file, $ipaddress . PHP_EOL, FILE_APPEND);

Output:

xxx.xxx.xxx.xx // with a line break after

I want to loop through the country codes and display them with the number of visitors from each country. For example:

If two IP Addresses from US and 1 IP Address from Canada went on the page... I want to display:

US: 2
CA: 1

Any help will be appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 249

Answers (1)

thedom
thedom

Reputation: 2518

Although I don't like the idea of working with text files here - here is an easy solution for that task (untested):

<?php
// Setup.
$pathVisitorsFile = 'visitors.txt';

// Execution.
if(!file_exists($pathVisitorsFile)) {
    die('File "'. $pathVisitorsFile .'" not found');
}

// Read entries.
$visitorsCountry = file($pathVisitorsFile, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES | FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES);

// Count entries.
$foundCountries = array();
foreach($visitorsCountry as $visitorCountry) {
    if(!isset($foundCountries[$visitorCountry])) {
        $foundCountries[$visitorCountry] = 1;
    } else {
        $foundCountries[$visitorCountry]++;
    }
}

// Display entries.
echo('<ul>');
foreach($foundCountries as $countryCode => $visitors) {
    echo('<li>'. $countryCode .': '. $visitors .'</li>');
}
echo('</ul>');
?>

I assumed that you already have a file with contents like:

US
US
US
DE
DE
IR
AT
US

Upvotes: 1

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