I am using maxminds geoip apache mod extention. It requires the php function 'apache_note'. However while suphp is active I am unable to access the function.
Ideally I would like to use suphp as I understand it offers security benefits.
Is it possible to use apache_note while also using suphp?
PHP's Apache functions are "only available when running PHP as an Apache module," according to the docs. suPHP operates very differently from mod_php, so it's very unlikely that you could get it working.
As you're using MaxMind's GeoIP service, have you looked at their pure-PHP library on PEAR, or the C implementation on PECL?