Maintainer Contact
Kirk Mayo
<kirk (dot) mayo (at) solnet (dot) co (dot) nz>
Requirements
- SilverStripe 3.2
- SilverStripe-Regional Module
- PHP 5 GeoIP module
SilverStripe-Regional-Maxmind-GeoIP-Legacy
Driver allowing the SilverStripe-Regional module to pull data from Maxmind using GeoIP
Composer Installation
composer require marketo/silverstripe-regional-maxmind-geoip-legacy
Config
You will need to confirm that the MaxMind GeoIP database files have been setup and that you can use the GeoIP function that come with the PHP 5 GeoIP module. Certain versions of the MaxMind GeoIP API module (https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-php/) will conflict with the PHP 5 GeoIP functions.
GeoIP database
You will neeed to retrive a databse for the module to work with this will need to be stored on the server and you may need to set the location of GeoPath under IPInfoCache in your config yml file. The free databases can be downloaded from here http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite
API endpoints
The curent endpoint returns a JSON object giving location details for the IP address. The results default to json but they can also be returned as jsonp if this has been defined under the config for IPInfoCache
http://YOURSITE/geoip/IPADDRESS
http://YOURSITE/geoip/IPADDRESS.json
http://YOURSITE/geoip/IPADDRESS.jsonp
TODO
Add tests Split up conection methods make it easy to use other connectors and dbs