Can I detect the location of an IP address by PHP on my website?
If yes, which method should I use? I did not try any third party service. I want to detect location of IP address for navigation.
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Take a look at "geoip" libraries. They indeed rely on third parts data, no way around that. – arkascha Jun 15 '17 at 17:33
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How accurate do you need it to be? Normally you can't get a better location than city. – Andreas Jun 15 '17 at 17:33
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Any other way for accurate measurement?? – Saparya Rd Jun 15 '17 at 17:34
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Sure, hack in to all ISPs in the world and plant a trojan there so you have access to all the data. – Andreas Jun 15 '17 at 17:35
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1Or place a adress field on the website and ask the user to fill it. – Andreas Jun 15 '17 at 17:36
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1https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11667838/how-do-i-get-an-addresses-latitude-longitude-using-html5-geolocation-or-google-a – Sammitch Jun 15 '17 at 17:39
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There are many ways to do it, try this, https://stackoverflow.com/a/17864552/8167189 – Luis Bolivar Jun 15 '17 at 18:07
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@Luis that link in the answer you link to is off by 11 km when I look up my IP. – Andreas Jun 15 '17 at 19:33
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3Possible duplicate of [Getting the location from an IP address](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/409999/getting-the-location-from-an-ip-address) – Syfer Jun 16 '17 at 01:15