11-12-2019
Update:
Fixed a minor bug in the Minor League Member Leaderboard, caused by sorting on strings instead of floats, which caused users with scores of '100%' to not appear in the sort results.
This bug only appeared in queries where there were no incorrect answers to trivia questions, and this was only the case with people with a very few answers.
Also,
Added a PHP array of country codes to country name so now the country names appear in the leaderboards instead of the country codes.
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
geoip_region_by_name
GEOIP_REGION_BY_NAME(3) 1 GEOIP_REGION_BY_NAME(3)
geoip_region_by_name - Get the country code and region
SYNOPSIS
array geoip_region_by_name (string $hostname)
DESCRIPTION
The geoip_region_by_name(3) function will return the country and region corresponding to a hostname or an IP address.
This function is currently only available to users who have bought a commercial GeoIP Region Edition. A warning will be issued if the
proper database cannot be located.
The names of the different keys of the returning associative array are as follows:
o "country_code" -- Two letter country code (see geoip_country_code_by_name(3))
o "region" -- The region code (ex: CA for California)
PARAMETERS
o $hostname
- The hostname or IP address whose region is to be looked-up.
RETURN VALUES
Returns the associative array on success, or FALSE if the address cannot be found in the database.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
A geoip_region_by_name(3) example
This will print the array containing the country code and region of the host example.com.
<?php
$region = geoip_region_by_name('www.example.com');
if ($region) {
print_r($region);
}
?>
The above example will output:
Array
(
[country_code] => US
[region] => CA
)
PHP Documentation Group GEOIP_REGION_BY_NAME(3)