Get user s current location

Question

How can I determine user s current location based on IP  I guess it works this way

User · Answer

The old freegeoip API is now deprecated and will be discontinued on July 1st, 2018.

The new API is from https://ipstack.com. You have to create the account in ipstack.Then you can use the access key in the API url.

$url = "http://api.ipstack.com/122.167.180.20?access_key=ACCESS_KEY&format=1";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYPORT, 3128);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$response = json_decode($response);
$city  = $response->city; //You can get all the details like longitude,latitude from the $response .

For more information check here :/ https://github.com/apilayer/freegeoip

User · Answer

as PHP relies on server  the real-time location cant be provided only static location can be provided it is better to avoid to rely on the JS for location rather than using php  But there is a need to post the js data to php so that it can be easily be accesible to program on server

User · Answer

lt  php  query    unserialize  file get contents  http   ip-api com php      if   query  amp  amp   query  status       success     echo  Hey user from      query  country             query  city            foreach   query as  data        echo  data     lt br gt        gt    Try this code using this source  it works

User · Answer

Edited  Change freegeoip net into ipinfo io   lt  php      function get client ip          ipaddress           if  isset   SERVER  HTTP CLIENT IP                ipaddress     SERVER  HTTP CLIENT IP          else if  isset   SERVER  HTTP X FORWARDED FOR                ipaddress     SERVER  HTTP X FORWARDED FOR          else if  isset   SERVER  HTTP X FORWARDED                ipaddress     SERVER  HTTP X FORWARDED          else if  isset   SERVER  HTTP FORWARDED FOR                ipaddress     SERVER  HTTP FORWARDED FOR          else if  isset   SERVER  HTTP FORWARDED                ipaddress     SERVER  HTTP FORWARDED          else if  isset   SERVER  REMOTE ADDR                ipaddress     SERVER  REMOTE ADDR          else            ipaddress    UNKNOWN              return  ipaddress     PublicIP   get client ip     json       file get contents  http   ipinfo io  PublicIP geo     json       json decode  json  true    country     json  country     region      json  region     city        json  city      gt

User · Answer

lt  php  user ip   getenv  REMOTE ADDR     geo   unserialize file get contents  http   www geoplugin net php gp ip  user ip      country    geo  geoplugin countryName     city    geo  geoplugin city      gt

User · Answer

An IP gives you an quite unreliable location  you could Ajax the location upon load with JS if it isn t critical to have the location at first   Also  the user need s to give you it s permission to access it    Html5 Geolocation

User · Answer

Try this code using the hostip info service    country file get contents  http   api hostip info get html php ip     echo  country      Reformat the data returned  Keep only country and country abbr    only country explode        country    echo  Country      only country 1      substr  only country 2  0 4

User · Answer

You may want to take a look at GeoIP Country Whois Locator found at PHPClasses

User · Answer

MaxMind GeoIP is a good service  They also have a free city-level lookup service

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