hi,
the response is in json format,you can call json_decode to convert the
response string to a php object,ie
$ip_obj = json_decode($location);
echo $ip_obj->ip . $ip_obj->country_name;
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george
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Jennifer <jennifer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> My name's Jenni and I'm new to the list. I hope this question
> isn't too simple.
>
> I want to grab some information about an IP address and present it
> in a readable fashion, so I wrote the following:
>
> $location = file_get_contents('http://freegeoip.net/json/78.18.200.182');
> $location = str_replace('{', '', $location);
> $location = str_replace('}', '', $location);
> $location = str_replace('"', '', $location);
> $location = str_replace(',', "\n", $location);
> echo $location;
>
> However, this seems longer than it needs to be. Is there a better
> way to do this?
>
> Thank you,
> Jenni
>
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