Sometimes it’s useful to locate where a certain IP address is located. Usually this isn’t really that accurate but at least it gives you a general idea for stats or marketing research. I’ve written a simple php function that uses curl to query a IP address location database for the location info. In the function I specify that I want a JSON data structure containing the location information. I chose JSON over the XML alternative just for ease of use. The object that we get returned needs to be referenced in a specific kind of way. I show how under the function.
