Lookup Method

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Lookup Method
Overview
This method is used to retrieve the information of a specific IP Address.
Options
Option
Type
Description
ip *
String
The IP Address you want to lookup.
params
Array
Specifies the modules you want to retrieve as visitor information.
It's an Array of consist some Strings as it's items.

Accepts: location, security, timezone, currency and/or device.

Default: []
lang
String
Specifies the API output language.

Accepts: EN, AR, DE, FR, ES, JA, JA, ZH or RU.

Default: EN
mode
String
You can use this option for using the Development Environment of the API, read more.

Accepts: live or test.

Default: live
Parameters with the (*) are required.
Usage:
Basic example of using this method:
// Calling the `lookup` methodand storing the
// response in a new variable called `$GREGeoIP_Response`
$GREGeoIP_Response = $GREGeoIP->lookup(
    '1.1.1.1'    // <-- The IP Address you want to lookup
);
​
// Printing the response
print_r($GREGeoIP_Response); // array of data
Description:
This method accepts 4 parameters represents the options you want to specify for this method (See the Options table above). Let's dive into this:
Let's say that we want to retrieve the location information, timezone and device information of a specific IP Address. So the code will be like this:
$GREGeoIP_Response = $GREGeoIP->lookup(
    '1.1.1.1',    // The IP Address you want to lookup
    ['timezone', 'device']    // The params array contains the modules you want
);
​
// Printing the response
print_r($GREGeoIP_Response);
Beside this, we can inform the module to return the response in English:
$GREGeoIP_Response = $GREGeoIP->lookup(
    '1.1.1.1',
    ['timezone', 'device'],
    'EN'    // The API output language will be English
);
​
// Printing the response
print_r($GREGeoIP_Response);
And so on...
Checking for errors
You can use the isError method to check if everything going well after calling each method:
$GREGeoIP_Response = $GREGeoIP->lookup(
    '1.1.1.1',
    ['timezone', 'device'],
    'EN'
);
​
// Check if there's no error returned then print the response
if (!$GREGeoIP_Response->isError){
    print_r($GREGeoIP_Response);
}
The isError method returns a boolean value.
If it's true then there's an error occurred and the data hasn't fetched.

This method will return true only if there's something wrong with your integration. So, please check your code if you see it returns true.
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