fseek not supported, please rewrite to use file_get_contents() about geoip-api-php

[oschwald]

It sounds like there is an error opening the database. Please check that the path to your database is correct and that the file is a GeoIP1 Legacy database.

We will not be rewriting this API.

[etayluz]

There was in fact an error opening the database due to the fact that many web hosts services simply do not support the fseek function. This is a problem many users are facing which is causing us to turn away from using MaxMind Geo IP. See the posting here: http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?237568-fseek()-issues-ip-to-location

If it is really impossible to rewrite the API, perhaps there should be a second version of geoip.inc that would use the file_get_contents() instead as a workaround - right now as great as this service is - I simply can't use it :(

On another note, if you work for MaxMind, I would suggest placing a link to this github and explaining to users which inc files need to be included in order to interact with the database - a little more documentation could make it easy to get running with it - http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/ - the link to stack overflow is not very helpful

[oschwald]

Again, it sounds like you are having problems accessing your database file that are only indirectly related to fseek. fseek is a part of the PHP core and is supported by both PHP 4 and 5. The error message is not saying that fseek is missing, but rather fseek that exists and there is a problem doing a seek on the file handle.

I am closing this issue. If you are a paying MaxMind customer, feel free to contact [email protected]. Otherwise, I would suggest asking for help on StackOverflow or from your hosting provider.

[etayluz]

If you need to have a special web server to support doing an fseek on a file handle (which my web service does not support as I have contacted them and they apologized for it but couldn't do anything for it), or if you need to have special customer support from MaxMind, then I have to tell you that this is not a legitimate open source project.

[oschwald]

Your error log does not suggest that your host does not support fseek.

That said, if you did receive a warning of the form "Warning: has been disabled for security reasons", you could try to avoid that function by using the GEOIP_SHARED_MEMORY mode or the GEOIP_MEMORY_CACHE mode.

You are free to fork the project and change the API as you see fit.

[etayluz]

I opened a stack overflow here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20022743/maxmind-geoip-api-fseek-function-fseek-stream-does-not-support-seeking-in