Re: Package Proposal Services_IP2Country
| From: | David Grant | Date: | Fri, 17 Oct 2003 13:25:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Package Proposal Services_IP2Country | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.pear.dev |
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I think the majority of the work for this application is the loading of
the data into a database and ensuring that it is constant. I'm not sure
that wrapping what is effectively a database lookup (ignoring the CSV
driver option) is worth an entire new package. Another point is that the
Services prefix seems to be reserved for Web Services [1]
What about web services? I found a SOAP-compatible service here [2] .This
might fit in better alongside Services_ExchangeRates and Services_Weather
IF you can find a reliable SOAP server (or choice of servers) for GeoIP
data.
Regards,
David
1. http://pear.php.net/packages.php?catpid=23&catname=Web+Services
2.
http://www.xmlwebservices.cc/ws/v1/geoip/geoipconversion.asmx?op=GetCountryFromIP