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vosSavant
Posted: 09 January 2009 12:00 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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I’m having a strange problem with a PHP script that detects a visitor’s IP. When I call the script directly (e.g., by going to http://www.example.com/iplocation.php), it always returns the correct IP.

However, when I call the script through an EE template using the following code:

<?php
   include("http://www.example.com/iplocation.php");
?>

I get the IP of the site’s hosting provider.

Is there anything in EE that could be causing this to happen, or is it entirely unrelated? I thought I’d ask here, since I’m asking everyone who could possibly know wink

I tried removing all of the template tags, so the include statement is the only thing in the template file. No cigar.

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Posted: 09 January 2009 07:54 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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You need to include the script using a server path.

What you’re doing right now is including it remotely.  In other words, PHP is making a request to the site (sort of like opening a browser) and returns the result.

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Posted: 09 January 2009 12:13 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Pascal,

Thank you - that did the trick (almost). If you go to my EE test template, you’ll see that I’m unable to open a binary input file. I can now see the correct IP address, but the country codes (which are pulled from the BIN file) aren’t showing.

The include file looks like this:

include("IP2Location.inc.php");

$ip = IP2Location_open("IP-COUNTRY.BIN", IP2LOCATION_STANDARD);

..code to grab IP address..

..echo country code (e.g., US)..
..echo country name (e.g., UNITED STATES)..
..echo IP address..
..echo IP number..

The BIN file is in the same directory as the location script.

I tried adding the server paths in the include file, but that didn’t work. I also checked to make sure I have the latest version of the file. Is there something else I should be doing?

Thanks Pascal.

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Pascal Kriete
Posted: 09 January 2009 12:19 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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All the includes seem to be working fine now.

You’ll need to check the IP2Location_open function to see what code it’s using to open the bin file.

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Posted: 09 January 2009 12:33 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Pascal,

Here is the function call again:

$ip = IP2Location_open("IP-COUNTRY.BIN", IP2LOCATION_STANDARD);

And the function:

function IP2Location_open ($filename, $flags) {
    $ip = new IP2Location;
    $ip->flags = $flags;
    $ip->filehandle = fopen($filename,"rb");
    if ($ip->filehandle === false) {
        echo FILEHANDLE_NULL . $filename . ".\n";;
        return 0;
    }
    $ip = IP2Location_initialize($ip);
    return $ip;
}
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Posted: 09 January 2009 12:57 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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Ok, we’re quickly moving away from EE tech support, so I’m going to move this down to How-To.

First make sure that you have the proper permissions set for the bin file.  Then also make sure it’s spelled the same (all caps?).  Lastly you could try to call “./IP-COUNTRY.BIN” (note the ./).

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Posted: 09 January 2009 02:59 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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Pascal,

Thanks again - I realize this is in the fuzzy area between EE support and PHP support, but since the script isn’t working within the EE framework I’m hoping you have another trick up your sleeve.

File permissions are 644, though I also tried 777 to be sure. Filename is all caps. BIN file is in the same folder as the script calling it, but I’ve tried all kinds of filename permutations (./IP-COUNTRY.BIN, /IP-COUNTRY.BIN, [DOCUMENT_ROOT]/IP-COUNTRY.BIN, etc.).

Again, I understand this isn’t entirely an EE issue.

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Posted: 10 January 2009 06:42 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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Still no luck with this.

Is there any reason a BIN file wouldn’t load within EE but would load outside of it? The applicable code is posted above.

Basically, the IP2Location_open function above is unable to open the file within the EE template, so I get an error. When I call the same script (which loads the same BIN file) outside of EE, everything works fine.

What’s the deal?

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Posted: 13 January 2009 02:15 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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I also tried changing the extension of the file to txt, but no luck. Using absolute paths also failed to do the trick.

Has anyone else had trouble using the PHP fopen function within EE?

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