RE: [PHP] Question

Rather than executing a system utility you can just use the built in PHP functions. gethostbyaddr() - resolves an IP address into a hostname gethostbyname() - resolves hostname into an IP address More information is available in the PHP manual, you can access it online at http://www.php.net/manual Jason -----Original Message----- From: heinisch@creaction.de [mailto:heinisch@creaction.de] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 6:50 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Question At 08.04.2002 13:00, you wrote: > >How to convert or discover from IPadress country visitors on my web ? > >roman You have to make a DNSLOOKUP If you have a linux box (server setup) you can use system("nslookup -timeout=3 -retry=1 ".$value) where $value is the IP-Number. This gives you the "real" name of the server your client asked from. the you have to extract the national-code, and got your country, or org, mil, com HTH Oliver -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php