How to find country using IP address in PHP?

ip, php

Solution

use this API http://ipinfo.io

function ip_details($IPaddress) 
    {
        $json       = file_get_contents("http://ipinfo.io/{$IPaddress}");
        $details    = json_decode($json);
        return $details;
    }

    $IPaddress  =   $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

    $details    =   ip_details("$IPaddress");

    //echo $details->city;   #Tamilnadu  
    //echo $details->country;  
    //echo $details->org;      
    //echo $details->hostname;

Problem

I have IP ranges of the country. And I am checking the the user IP address within this ranges if true then he is able to see the site otherwise he wont. I have use following code, ``` $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; if(ip2long($ip) >= $ipstart && ip2long($ip) <= $ipend){ return true; } ``` My question is that if somebody comes from different country suppose ABC with his laptop/notebook to another country suppose XYZ then will above code works? on the same laptop. How will it be possible for the above scenario for ipv4 and ipv6? [EDIT] Which IP address `$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']` fetch, will it be the machine IP or the connection IP, so that we can know that he now in this country? Thanks

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