IP to Location using Javascript

Answer 1

Either one of the following links should take care of this:

http://ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api_json.php

http://www.adam-mcfarland.net/2009/11/19/simple-ip-geolocation-using-javascript-and-the-google-ajax-search-api/

Those links have tutorials for getting a users location through Javascript. However, they do so through an API to an external data service. If you have an extremely high traffic site, you might want to hosting the data yourself (or getting a premium api service). To host everything yourself, you will have to host a database with IP Geolocation and use ajax to feed the users location into Javascript. If this is the approach you want to take, you can get a free database of IP information below:

http://www.ipinfodb.com/ip_database.php

Please note that this method entails having to periodically update the database to stay accurate in tracing ips to locations.