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DuliNini
DuliNini

Reputation: 181

PHP: file_get_contents is too slow

I'm trying to use ip-api.com/php but there's a very slow response on my server and I figured out that it is because of the file_get_contents

So basically, I have a pretty simple script (got from github I think)

function get_ip() {
        //Just get the headers if we can or else use the SERVER global
        if ( function_exists( 'apache_request_headers' ) ) {
            $headers = apache_request_headers();
        } else {
            $headers = $_SERVER;
        }
        //Get the forwarded IP if it exists
        if ( array_key_exists( 'X-Forwarded-For', $headers ) && filter_var( $headers['X-Forwarded-For'], FILTER_VALIDATE_IP, FILTER_FLAG_IPV4 ) ) {
            $the_ip = $headers['X-Forwarded-For'];
        } elseif ( array_key_exists( 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR', $headers ) && filter_var( $headers['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'], FILTER_VALIDATE_IP, FILTER_FLAG_IPV4 )
        ) {
            $the_ip = $headers['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
        } else {

            $the_ip = filter_var( $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], FILTER_VALIDATE_IP, FILTER_FLAG_IPV4 );
        }
        return $the_ip;
    }

$ip=get_ip();


$query = @unserialize(file_get_contents('http://ip-api.com/php/'.$ip));

When it comes to 

$query = @unserialize(file_get_contents('http://ip-api.com/php/'.$ip));

It freezes for around 1min.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2106

Answers (2)

Bayanaa
Bayanaa

Reputation: 53

In my experience, http://ip-api.com/json didn't respond to the server and it takes much time. When I call from localhost it working fine.

Now I am using https://freegeoip.app/json/ and it's allowed up to 15,000 queries per hour by default.

Upvotes: 0

Lelio Faieta
Lelio Faieta

Reputation: 6689

If you read their API you will see this:

Deprecated Use JSON. Almost all PHP sites now support json_decode(), and it's faster than unserialize()

The reference is here

There you will also find how to do it with Json with an example you can leverage to get your point:

To receive the response in JSON format, send a GET request to

http://ip-api.com/json

You can supply an IP address or domain to lookup, or none to use your current IP address.

The reference is here

Upvotes: 3

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