How to verify country through Internet Protocol (IP)

Many global homepages support various languages such as English, French, Spanish, etc.
I wondered that it verified the languages according to visitor.

By using cookies can be selected when the user had already visited.
If the user have visited at the homepage for the first time,
it will verify the country by user's IP address.

The MaxMind(http://www.maxmind.com/) is provided APIs that verified the country by IP address.

There are two APIs for geolocation solutions."GeoIP City" and "GeoLite City".
GeoLite City is for free and less accurate than GeoIP City.
I think GeoLite City is too good to achieve our goals.

Now I use the GeoLite City API to get the country into an IP address.
The API has supported for multiple program languages.
I use PHP programming language for this sample.
You go to http://www.maxmind.com/app/php and download Pure PHP Module.

I download "sample.php" of many sources.
The content of sample.php is as follows.

#!/usr/bin/php -q
<?php

// This code demonstrates how to lookup the country by IP Address

include("geoip.inc");

// Uncomment if querying against GeoIP/Lite City.
// include("geoipcity.inc");

$gi = geoip_open("/usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat",GEOIP_STANDARD);

echo geoip_country_code_by_addr($gi, "24.24.24.24") . "\t" .
geoip_country_name_by_addr($gi, "24.24.24.24") . "\n";
echo geoip_country_code_by_addr($gi, "80.24.24.24") . "\t" .
geoip_country_name_by_addr($gi, "80.24.24.24") . "\n";

geoip_close($gi);

?>

Look at the source. It includes "geoip.inc" file.
I download "geoip.inc" from Pure PHP Module.

Also we need to download "GeoIP.dat" files. It is binary format database.
You can download it next link.
http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCountry/GeoIP.dat.gz

Unzip that file and copy it in server.

This example shows the country code and name.
For global homepage, I just need to know the country code.

I make PHP source to verify country through IP address and redirect to each language page.

<?
include("geoip.inc");

$gi = geoip_open("/usr/local/geoip/GeoIP.dat",GEOIP_STANDARD);
$addr = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];

if (geoip_country_code_by_addr($gi, $addr) == "FR") {
header("Location: http://xmlmanager.blogspot.com/fr/");
exit;
}
else {
header("Location: http://xmlmanager.blogspot.com/en/");
exit;
}
?>