php geo location

[baby3311]

Is there a way to get or guess the physical location of the visitor from the ip address in php?

[That1guy]

There is a program called neotrace, im not sure if it works with the ip you get from php function though.

[baby3311]

actually i was not planning to use any program, just the php script only.

i found this from the net:
if (empty($REMOTE_ADDR)) {
$userip="0.0.0.0"; $userhost="nul";
} else {
$userip= $REMOTE_ADDR; $userhost=gethostbyaddr("$userip");
}

It is easy to locate user by hostname. <-- How?

[!ben]

I've answered a similar question to this before: http://www.freewebspace.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=4375.

Although it doesn't use their ip address.
Hope this helps.

[ashben]

I don't think its that simple.

Read here: http://www.redherring.com/index.asp?layout=cod&channel=80000008