Get user's current location

Question

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

Answer 1

<?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"];
?>

Answer 2

Edited

Change freegeoip.net into ipinfo.io

<?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'];

?>

Answer 3

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);

Answer 4

<?php
$query = @unserialize (file_get_contents('http://ip-api.com/php/'));
if ($query && $query['status'] == 'success') {
echo 'Hey user from ' . $query['country'] . ', ' . $query['city'] . '!';
}
foreach ($query as $data) {
    echo $data . "<br>";
}
?>

Try this code using this source. it works!

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

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

Answer 7

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

Answer 8

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

Answer 9

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