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The component was developed for the following sites: http://www.hostip.info/, http://www.countycriminal.com, and http://theeasyapi.com. Initially it was developed in a very simple form not doing a lot of error checking or making it into a component. I decided that it's a great time to create this into a component and released it to all my fellow bakers.

/app/controllers/components/hostipinfo.php

Component Class:

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// Let's use HttpSocket
App::import('Core', 'HttpSocket');

class HostipinfoComponent extends Object {
    function get_data($ip_address){        
        // Start a new Socket
        $HttpSocket = new HttpSocket();
        
        // We need to base64-encode it and then url-encode that.
        $result = $HttpSocket->get("http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=" . $ip_address . "&position=true");
        
        if(strlen(trim($result)) > 0){
            $get_return = $this->parse_data($result);
            return $get_return;
        }else{
               return false;
        }
    }
    
    function parse_data($result){
        
        // The array of data to return
        $returnArray = array();
        
        $find_string = "Country:";
        $start = strpos($result,$find_string);
        if ($start != false){
                $start = strpos($result,$find_string);
                $line_end = strpos($result,"\n",$start) - strlen($find_string) - $start;
                $returnArray['country'] = trim(substr($result,$start + strlen($find_string),$line_end));
        }

        $find_string = "City:";
        $start = strpos($result,$find_string);
        if ($start != false){
                $line_end = strpos($result,"\n",$start) - strlen($find_string) - $start;
                $city_state = trim(substr($result,$start + strlen($find_string),$line_end));
                $returnArray['city'] = trim(substr($city_state,0,strpos($city_state,",")));
                $returnArray['state'] = trim(substr($city_state,strpos($city_state,",")+1));
        }

        $find_string = "Latitude:";
        $start = strpos($result,$find_string);
        if ($start != false){
                $line_end = strpos($result,"\n",$start) - strlen($find_string) - $start;
                $returnArray['latitude'] = trim(substr($result,$start + strlen($find_string),$line_end));
        }

        $find_string = "Longitude:";
        $start = strpos($result,$find_string);
        if ($start != false){
                $line_end = strpos($result,"\n",$start) - strlen($find_string) - $start;
                if ($line_end <= 0) $line_end = strlen($result) - $start - strlen($find_string);
                $returnArray['longitude'] = trim(substr($result,$start + strlen($find_string),$line_end));
        }
        
        return $returnArray;
    }
}
?>

/app/controllers/hostips_controller.php

Controller Class:

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class HostipsController extends AppController {

    var $name = 'Hostips';
    var $uses = array();
    var $components = array('Hostipinfo');

    function getipinfo($theIP){
        $getInfo = $this->Hostipinfo->get_data($theIP);
        
        echo "<pre>";
        print_r($getInfo);
        echo "</pre>";
    }
}
?>

Calling the function

To view a sample of how this will work assuming you have it setup with the controller above you can just point a browser to http://domain.com/hostips/getipinfo/174.129.200.54

Sample Return

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<pre>
Array
(
    [city] => Seattle
    [state] => WA
    [latitude] => 47.6218
    [longitude] => -122.35
)
</pre>


Using HttpSocket

If you saw the previous version of the code it utilized cURL, but it's been replaced with the more widely used CakePHP HttpSocket method. The component works by initializing the HttpSocket class then sends a GET request to the Hostip.info server and obtains the raw data. It will then decode the data turning it into valid XML documentation.

This is a great project that deserves some attention in your next application. Additional The Easy API provides an API that you can use to access this as well. Check them out at: http://theeasyapi.com
Happy Baking!