How to get city data by IP from maxmind GEO-IP service

If its necessary to get GEO-IP data using maxmind service - next function will do the job:

function maxmind_get_data( $ip ) {

    $query = 'https://geoip.maxmind.com/geoip/v2.1/city/' . $ip;
    $curl = curl_init($query);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "__YOUR_ID__:__YOUR_KEY__"); //Your credentials goes here
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING, 'application/json');

    $resp = curl_exec($curl);

    if(curl_errno($curl)) {
        throw new Exception(
        'GeoIP request failed with a curl_errno of '
        . curl_errno($curl)
        );
    }

    $result="";
    if(!empty($resp)){
        $result=  json_decode($resp);
    }


    return $result;
}

function maxmind_get_data( $ip ) {

$query = 'https://geoip.maxmind.com/geoip/v2.1/city/' . $ip;

$curl = curl_init($query);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "__YOUR_ID__:__YOUR_KEY__"); //Your credentials goes here

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING, 'application/json');

$resp = curl_exec($curl);

if(curl_errno($curl)) {

throw new Exception(

'GeoIP request failed with a curl_errno of '

. curl_errno($curl)

);

}

$result="";

if(!empty($resp)){

$result= json_decode($resp);

}

return $result;

}

__YOUR_ID__ - your ID on maxmind service
__YOUR_KEY__ - your secret key on maxmind service

Be sure that CURL is enabled on your hosting.

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