Hello friends, I was facing issue of getting country name from IP address. Here I am going to tell you how to resolve this issue by passing IP address and retrieving country name. There are many APIs which will do this for you. I am using the service of this site: http://ipinfo.io/

Write the following lines of code here:

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$country_details = json_decode(file_get_contents("http://ipinfo.io/{$ip}"));
echo $country_details->country; // -> "IN"

In the above code:

$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']: This will give you your current IP address.

file_get_contents: This is alternative way of curl. It will going to read the content of the site and will give you output

You will get country on this variable $country_details. The output of the above code will be the following:

stdClass Object
(
    [ip] => 14.141.58.163
    [hostname] => 14.141.58.163.static-delhi.vsnl.net.in
    [city] => 
    [region] => 
    [country] => IN
    [loc] => 20.0000,77.0000
    [org] => AS4755 TATA Communications formerly VSNL is Leading ISP
)

Hope this will going to help. If you have any other ways to do this, then please don't forget to mention it on the comment.

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