Find public IP of server
<?php
function getWebPage($url)
{
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
# try-1
$url = 'http://api.externalip.net/ip';
$content = getWebPage($url);
$ip = trim($content);
if(inet_pton($ip)){
return $ip;
}
#try-2
echo 'Fetching external IP from: http://checkip.dyndns.org:8245 ';
$html = getWebPage("http://checkip.dyndns.org:8245");
if(preg_match('/(\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3})/', $html, $matches) !== 0){
return $matches[0];
}
return false;
Written by Shyam Sunder Verma
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