This example is to show how to detect user’s country

For GET request

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<?php

// set HTTP header
$headers = array(
    'Content-Type: application/json',
);

// query string
$fields = array(
    'key' => '<your_api_key>',
    'format' => 'json',
    'ip' => $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'],
);
$url = 'http://api.ipinfodb.com/v3/ip-country?' . http_build_query($fields);

// Open connection
$ch = curl_init();

// Set the url, number of GET vars, GET data
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

// Execute request
$result = curl_exec($ch);

// Close connection
curl_close($ch);

// get the result and parse to JSON
$result_arr = json_decode($result, true);

print_r($result_arr);
/*
 *  output:
 *  Array
 *  (
 *      [statusCode] => "OK",
 *      [statusMessage] => "",
 *      [ipAddress] => "123.13.123.12",
 *      [countryCode] => "MY",
 *      [countryName] => "MALAYSIA",
 *  )
 */
 ?>

For POST request

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<?php

// set HTTP header
$headers = array(
    'Content-Type: application/json'
);

// set POST params
$fields = array(
    'key' => '<your_api_key>',
    'format' => 'json',
    'ip' => $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'],
);
$url = 'http://api.ipinfodb.com/v3/ip-country';

// Open connection
$ch = curl_init();

// Set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($fields));

// Execute post
$result = curl_exec($ch);

// Close connection
curl_close($ch);
$result_arr = json_decode($result, true);
?>

For POST request with binary body (e.g. an audio wav file)

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$params = [
    'qs1' => 'foo',
];
$file = '/path/to/file.wav';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url . '?' . http_build_query($params));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, filesize($file));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, ($in = fopen($file, 'r')));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
ob_start();
if (curl_exec($ch) === false) {
    throw new \Exception('Curl error: '. curl_error($ch));
}
$content = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
curl_close($ch);
fclose($in);

$result = json_decode($content, 1);