Not getting Country name by geo location

Question

I am trying to get country name by Geo-location. so i used Geo plugin but not working good. its show all good by browser url. but when i am trying to set response by php its not return anything.

I don't know what is issue with my code.

Geoip Url : http://www.geoplugin.net/php.gp?ip=xx.xx.xx.xx

require_once('geoplugin.class.php');

 $geoplugin = new geoPlugin();
    $geoplugin->locate();
    if($geoplugin->countryCode){
        $_SESSION['cCode'] = $geoplugin->countryCode;
    }else{
        $_SESSION['cCode'] = "US";
    }

Answer 1

You are doing it correctly, the issue that you are facing is may be due to localhost.

Try above code by passing hard codded IP for testing purpose, like this:

$geoplugin = new geoPlugin();
$yourIp = "206.189.146.36";
$geoplugin->locate();
if ($geoplugin->countryCode) {
    $_SESSION['cCode'] = $geoplugin->countryCode;
} else {
    $_SESSION['cCode'] = "US";
}

When you are accessing geoplugin API through URL, then geoplugin is fetching you IP address, but from local host it would fetching 127.0.0.1 or something like this

Hope you find your answer.