Redirect Visitors By Country Using PHP and MySQL for IPV4

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/* Description: This snippet is provide simple way to redirect visitor to different default web page based on   */
/*              visitor's country of origin                                                                     */
/*              suggestions for different city locations across the country.                                    */
/*              There are 1 steps in this snippet. For information, please visit IP2Location tutorial page at:  */
/* https://www.ip2location.com/tutorials/redirect-web-visitors-by-country-using-php-and-mysql-database          */
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/* You can obtain free IP Country database for IPv4 at https://lite.ip2location.com/database/ip-country         */

<?php
    // Replace this MYSQL server variables with actual configuration
    $mysql_server = "mysql_server.com";
    $mysql_user_name = "UserName";
    $mysql_user_pass = "Password";

    // Retrieve visitor IP address from server variable REMOTE_ADDR
    $ipaddress = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

    // Convert IP address to IP number for querying database
    $ipno = Dot2LongIP($ipaddress);

    // Connect to the database server
    $link = mysqli_connect($mysql_server, $mysql_user_name, $mysql_user_pass) or die("Could not connect to MySQL database");

    // Connect to the IP2Location database
    mysqli_select_db($link,"ip2location") or die("Could not select database");

    // SQL query string to match the recordset that the IP number fall between the valid range
    $query = "SELECT * FROM ip_country WHERE $ipno <= ip_to LIMIT 1";

    // Execute SQL query
    $result = mysqli_query($link,$query) or die("IP2Location Query Failed");

    // Retrieve the recordset (only one)
    $row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result);

    // Keep the country information into two different variables
    $country_code = $row['country_code'];
    $country_name = $row['country_name'];


    // Free recordset and close database connection
    mysqli_free_result($result);
    mysqli_close($link);


    // Redirect user to the correct page
    echo 'You will be redirected to ' . $country_code . ' page <br/><br/>';
    exit;

    // Function to convert IP address (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) to IP number (0 to 256^4-1)
    function Dot2LongIP ($IPaddr) {
     if ($IPaddr == "")
     {
       return 0;
     } else {
       $ips = explode(".", $IPaddr);
       return ($ips[3] + $ips[2] * 256 + $ips[1] * 256 * 256 + $ips[0] * 256 * 256 * 256);
     }
    }
?>