Class for retrieving region, city and geolocation
For one of the social platforms I was creating I had to provide profile display according to the location from which the request was made. There are plenty services in the internet, which provide you an accurate database, which will translate IP address into region, city and geographical lengths. I didn't want to spend any money for this kind of service, so I decided to find a free solution for this task. However, none of the services existing in the internet provides you 100% accuracy, the one that I've found locates my IP correctly. It would be nice, if you could give me some feedback, if this class is working for you as good as it works for me. This example requires URL file-access to be enabled on your server, because we will request the XML data through URL call. In this example we will also use SimpleXMLElement class, which should be enable by default in PHP5, to translate our XML file into an object. We will then recurse received object into a suitable array.