php parse xml from url

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http://api.hostip.info/?ip=87.14.94.152

From this link (xml) i am tried to retrive countryName and countryAbbrev like this:

$url = 'http://api.hostip.info/?ip=87.14.94.152';
$xml = simplexml_load_file($url) or die("feed not loading");
$Country = $xml->gml['featureMember']->Hostip->countryName;
echo $Country;
echo 'BREAK HTML';
echo "-----";
echo "// "; var_dump($xml); echo " //";

but $Country is blank, any idea about?

thanks in advance

You should add the result of your var_dump($xml) to the question. — jeroen
– jeroen, Commented Dec 13, 2013 at 20:56
BREAK HTML-----// object(SimpleXMLElement)#1 (1) { ["@attributes"]=> array(1) { ["version"]=> string(5) "1.0.1" } } // — AleMal
– AleMal, Commented Dec 13, 2013 at 20:57

Hackerman · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-13 21:24:00Z

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Try this not like an answer, but, just another way to do the same:

$data = file_get_contents('http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=87.14.94.152&position=true');

$arrayofdata = explode("\n", $data);
$country = explode(":", $arrayofdata[0]);
$count = explode(" ", $country[1]);

echo "Country Name: ".$count[1]."</br>";    //Prints ITALY
echo "Country Abbv: ".trim($count[2],"()"); //Prints IT

The position=true url part, it's just in case that you want to retrieve the coordinates.

Cheers ;)

answered Dec 13, 2013 at 21:24

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BaBL86 · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-13 21:08:27Z

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Try this:

$url = 'http://api.hostip.info/?ip=87.14.94.152';
$xml = simplexml_load_file($url) or die("feed not loading");

$fm=$xml->xpath('//gml:featureMember');
print_r($fm[0]->Hostip->countryName);

answered Dec 13, 2013 at 21:08

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Ergin · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-13 21:09:57Z

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Make a local copy of the xml and it will work. Just tested this and got the data back:

$url = 'http://api.hostip.info/?ip=87.14.94.152';
$data = file_get_contents($url);
$xml = simplexml_load_file($data) or die("feed not loading");

answered Dec 13, 2013 at 21:09

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Amal · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-13 21:16:26Z

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The countryName node is nested in a deeper level. You can use the children() method to access attributes with colon. Here's how you can get the country name:

$countryName = (string) $xml->children('gml', true)
                            ->featureMember->children('', true)
                                ->Hostip->countryName; // => ITALY

You could also use an XPath expression to retrieve the country name. This is easier:

$hostip = $xml->xpath('//Hostip'); 
$countryName = $hostip[0]->countryName;       // => ITALY
$countryAbbrev = $hostip[0]->countryAbbrev;   // => IT

edited Dec 13, 2013 at 21:16

answered Dec 13, 2013 at 21:08

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AleMal Over a year ago

Hi tenks in advance but $countryAbbrev return [object Object]

amarjit singh · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-13 21:17:12Z

     protected function getCountryNameFromIP()
     {

        $ip  = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
        $opts = array(
        'http'=>array(
        'method'=>"GET",
        'header'=>"Accept-language: en\r\n" .
                  "Cookie: foo=bar\r\n"
           )
        );

        $context = stream_context_create($opts);
        $answerIP = @file_get_contents("http://api.ipinfodb.com/v3/ip-country/?key=4b585e37503a519a408dc17878e6ec04fa963e1b946c567722538d9431c2d5cb&format=xml&ip=$ip" ,false,$context);

        if(isset($answerIP) && $answerIP !="")
        {
            $theResJ            =   simplexml_load_string($answerIP);
            $last_login_ip_cn   =   $theResJ->countryName;


            /**
            *   $last_login_ip_cc   =   $theResJ->countryCode;
            *   $last_login_ip_rc   =   $theResJ->regionCode;
            *   $last_login_ip_rn   =   $theResJ->regionName;
            *   $last_login_ip_cp   =   $theResJ->cityName;
            *   $last_login_ip_lat  =   $theResJ->latitude;
            *   $last_login_ip_lng  =   $theResJ->longitude;
            *   $last_login_zip_code=   $theResJ->zipCode;
            */
        }
        else
        {
            $last_login_ip_cn   =   "";
            /**
            *   $last_login_ip_cc   =   "";
            *   $last_login_ip_rc   =   "";
            *   $last_login_ip_rn   =   "";
            *   $last_login_ip_cp   =   "";
            * $last_login_ip_lat    =   "";
            *   $last_login_ip_lng  =   "";
            *   $last_login_zip_code=   "";
            */
        }

        return $last_login_ip_cn;
       }

I hope it helps you

user2737761 · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-13 21:21:53Z

I agree. I just tried both answers and got good results. Here is the test code I just ran:

<?php
$url = 'http://api.hostip.info/?ip=87.14.94.152';
// $data = file_get_contents($url);
$xml = simplexml_load_file($url) or die("feed not loading");
// $Country = $xml->gml['featureMember']->Hostip->countryName;
// echo $Country;
echo 'BREAK HTML';
echo "-----";
echo "// "; var_dump($xml); echo " //<br/>";
?><br/><?php
var_dump($xml->gml);
?><br/><?php
print_r($xml);
?><br/><?php
var_dump((string) $xml->gml->featureMember->Hostip->countryName);
?><br/><?php
echo $xml->gml['featureMember']->Hostip->countryName;
$Country = (string) $xml->children('gml', true)
                            ->featureMember->children('', true)
                                ->Hostip->countryName; // => ITALY
echo $Country;
$fm=$xml->xpath('//gml:featureMember');
print_r($fm[0]->Hostip->countryName);

and here are the results output:

BREAK HTML-----// object(SimpleXMLElement)#1 (1) { ["@attributes"]=> array(1) { ["version"]=> string(5) "1.0.1" } } //

object(SimpleXMLElement)#2 (0) { } SimpleXMLElement Object ( [@attributes] => Array ( [version] => 1.0.1 ) ) string(0) "" ITALYSimpleXMLElement Object ( [0] => ITALY )

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