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geoip_setup_custom_directory

(PECL geoip >= 1.1.0)

geoip_setup_custom_directory — Set a custom directory for the GeoIP database

Description

function geoip_setup_custom_directory(string $path): void

The geoip_setup_custom_directory() function will change the default directory of the GeoIP database. This is equivalent to changing geoip.custom_directory.

Parameters

path

The full path of where the GeoIP database is on disk.

Return Values

No value is returned.

Examples

Example #1 A geoip_setup_custom_directory() example

This will change the GeoIP default database path.

<?php

geoip_setup_custom_directory('/some/other/path');

print geoip_db_filename(GEOIP_COUNTRY_EDITION);

?>

The above example will output:

/some/other/path/GeoIP.dat

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