Dirty way to get Zip Code from a visitors IP, City and State using MaxMind GeoIP

As we mentioned in our previous post, the MaxMind geoip database doesn’t do too well with getting the zip code of users that visit your sites. We had a use today to grab the zipcode and popular an area of our site with it, and we’re going to show you how to do it as well. This assumes you already have GEOIP working, and are using the standard free database, and our zipcode database tutorial....

August 27, 2009 · 3 min · 464 words · Matt G