Request: New Map feature to be added

[vekien]

Hello!

I really love IP info and recently you guys launched: Map IPs: https://ipinfo.io/map

Would it be possible to get this in the library? I was thinking of PRing it but unsure if it's more of an "experimental/fun" thing at the moment or if it's something that will stick around and is production ready.

Kind Regards!

[UmanShahzad]

Hey @viion , really glad you like the new feature!

From my side, I don't see much value of putting this into the PHP SDK (or any SDK). The output is only going to be some JSON with a link like this:

$ cat ips.txt | curl -XPOST --data-binary @- "ipinfo.io/map?cli=1"
{
  "status": "Report Generated",
  "reportUrl": "https://ipinfo.io/map/7e55cd2d-a6d9-4724-bb6e-e0c8ac7daf6e"
}

If the intention is to input IPs to an SDK function and then use that link to be displayed somewhere in your app, then that would make sense. But I can't see any other use case. What do you think?

@coderholic any idea if this is worth putting into SDKs?

[vekien]

I wonder if it would just be for convenience, I guess it would need to align with the goals of this functionality.

An example use case I have: At my company we monitor AWS ALB logs, and we have reports generated daily about where traffic came from and this uses ipinfo php library to get region/city etc, and we build dashboards on that.

With the introduction of maps I have now added this to our report generation script:

$ipfilename = self::SAVE_PATH .'/ip_list';
file_put_contents($ipfilename, implode("\n", $ips));

// generate map from ipinfo
$response = shell_exec('cat '. $ipfilename .' | curl -XPOST --data-binary @- "ipinfo.io/map?cli=1"');
$response = json_decode(trim($response), true);
$entity->setMapLink($response['reportUrl']);

So I'm basically just doing a shell_exec to run the example your page says, which works perfectly it's all fine and dandy, at the time I just thought "be handy if I could do $ipinfo->generateMapLink($ips) 😊" - This report sends a message on Slack that now includes a link directly to the map. So it's all automated, as our management/higher up love this map lol

Just thought i'd bring up to discuss, as ipinfo is so simple and convenient to use anyway!

[UmanShahzad]

I love that use case, thanks for sharing!

Will get back to you fairly soon about this; hoping we can add it :)

[UmanShahzad]

Alright got the 👍 to implement this; will do it soon.

[UmanShahzad]

Available in v2.2.0.

Example from test cases:

$h = new IPinfo();
$url = $h->getMapUrl(file("tests/map-ips.txt"));
echo "got URL ".$url;