Re: IP to country DB and script

At 11:01 AM -0700 5/21/06, Ryan A wrote:

As always in life, your choices are quick, good, and

inexpensive -- but you can only pick two. :-)

Hey! Thats a good one, am going to use it in other places :-) Thanks!

No problem -- I met with a client yesterday where I told him that. He thought it a good quote as well, but let's see if he hires me. :-)

In any event, if you find a "free one" better than

what I provided, please share.

Will do, the problem is, when I visited that page it tells me: Your location: city (unknown) Country: EU

That routine doesn't reference a dB-- it simply uses: $location = get_location_xml( get_remote_ip() ); $city = parse_city( $location ); $country = parse_country( $location ); No big deal -- just something I found interesting.

and gives me an option to identify myself below... I did, so it will help you expand your db, but I cant want to ask the visitors to my clients site to do the same, it has to show them their correct country a high percentage of the time. After submitting my location details I went back there and refreshed the page but it still shows me the same old data....

Yep, but you're expecting more from me than what I deserve. I could collect the data and build my own dB -- that sounds reasonable. But, my test here was simply to see how valid those calls were. I have no idea if the people who are submitting data to me are telling the truth or not. As such, it would be problematic to build a reliable dB from the "few" visitors I receive. Plus, things change. Sometimes I access my site and it shows my correct location of "Lansing, MI", then other times is shows "Jackson, MI", and today it's showing "Unknown, CA". So, even if I were being honest, what would I report? I have seen some pretty accurate reporting systems, but I fear that they have to be kept current on a daily basis. tedd -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com