I haven’t heard of anyone figuring out how to use the new data, but I posted the following to a discussion on WXForum.
"I tried using several online lookup sites and settled on https://ipapi.co/ as the best. Their free plan is limited to 30,000 lookups/month which is more than adequate for my little hobby web site. So, save a copy of your files and then try this if you wish. - Jim
In include-whos-online-page.php I commented out the lines that contained “TEXT_LAST_UPDATED” so I wouldn’t get the update messages.
Then in include-whos-online-header.php I renamed the function get_location_info to old_get_location_info and added the following right above it:"
function get_location_info($user_ip) {
global $C;
$ch = curl_init('https://ipapi.co/'.$user_ip.'/json/');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X x.y; rv:42.0) Trident/5.0 Firefox/42.0');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5); // connection timeout
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5); // data timeout
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // return the data transfer
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, false); // set nobody
$json = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$record = json_decode($json, true);
if (strpos($json,"error") == 0 && $record[country_name] != "") {
$record[city] = str_replace("City of ", "", $record[city]);
$location_info = array(); // Create Result Array
$location_info['provider'] = '';
$location_info['city_name'] = $record[city];
$location_info['state_name'] = $record[region];
$location_info['state_code'] = strtoupper($record[region_code]);
$location_info['country_name'] = ($record[country_name] != '') ? $record[country_name] : '--';
$location_info['country_code'] = ($record[country] != '') ? strtoupper($record[country]) : '--';
$location_info['latitude'] = ($record[latitude] != '') ? $record[latitude] : '0';
$location_info['longitude'] = ($record[longitude] != '') ? $record[longitude] : '0';
} else {
$location_info = old_get_location_info($user_ip); // use the outdated database
}
return $location_info;
}