Re: Daemons (was: How to check what country the user is comming from ?)

Can you explain me, how to build a (standalone) daemon or point me to a good tutorial? Thank you for help in advance Stefan Rusterholz, s.rusterholz@interaktion.ch ---------------------------------- interaktion gmbh Stefan Rusterholz Zürichbergstrasse 17 8032 Zürich ---------------------------------- T. +41 1 253 19 55 F. +41 1 253 19 56 W3 www.interaktion.ch ---------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Duncan Hill" <dhill@cricalix.net> To: "Fly" <gig@home.pl> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 12:56 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] How to check what country the user is comming from ? > On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Fly wrote: > > > thx Kamil Muszynski > > Practically, you can't. > > Technically, you can. Take the IP, run it through whois.arin.net. If that > returns apnic, ripe etc, run it through those.. you might get the answer you > want. Calls to apnic etc are probably blocking calls - slowing down your > page load. Or make this a standalone daemon that feeds a DB. > > If there are built in PHP commands, I don't know of them. > > -- > > Sapere aude > My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely. > Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > >