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

Makyen
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<?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"];
?>
Hamza
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    Geoplugin is not best platform. It is limited to 120 actions per minute. It worked for me, but lately it started to show 403 for all requests from my server. Who knows why. (I haven't made those 120 connections in one minute) –  Mar 30 '17 at 17:18
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    Useless with those limits. – Michael Rogers Jun 09 '17 at 06:58
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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     = $json['city'];
?>
Naveen DA
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    While this code may answer the question, providing additional context regarding why and/or how this code answers the question improves its long-term value. – Jay Blanchard Apr 24 '17 at 19:31
  • Is there a workaround for localhost servers? My ip address keeps coming up as ::1 – Vince Dec 25 '17 at 20:59
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    @vince Localhost always return ::1 ip address – Naveen DA Dec 26 '17 at 02:29
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    __deprecation_message__: "This API endpoint is deprecated and will stop working on July 1st, 2018. For more information please visit: https://github.com/apilayer/freegeoip#readme", – Moses Schwartz May 23 '18 at 17:09
  • For what is it necessary to check all the forwarded ip? I thought only check `if(isset(HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR))` is necessary. – klediooo Jul 18 '19 at 17:32
  • And in many countries this will get you the location of the ISP not the actual user – RiggsFolly Dec 02 '20 at 17:29
  • Found a free API https://ipapi.co/$PublicIP/json , or also single fields can be queried much quicker https://ipapi.co/$PublicIP/languages ! Check the docs at https://ipapi.co/api/#location-of-a-specific-ip – Hristo Apr 26 '22 at 06:28
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<?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!

Adnan Rasheed
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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);
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Bedh
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    instead of exploding the return you can use the json as return. http://api.hostip.info/get_json.php – Underdog Oct 08 '14 at 11:56
  • $json_string = 'http://api.hostip.info/get_json.php?ip='.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; $jsondata = file_get_contents($json_string); $obj = json_decode($jsondata, true); – Underdog Oct 08 '14 at 12:02
  • This site is not available anymore. – Rohlik Sep 02 '17 at 09:32
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MaxMind GeoIP is a good service. They also have a free city-level lookup service.

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    While this link may answer the question, it is better to include the essential parts of the answer here and provide the link for reference. Link-only answers can become invalid if the linked page changes. – Jay Blanchard Apr 24 '17 at 19:30
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You may want to take a look at GeoIP Country Whois Locator found at PHPClasses.

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    While this link may answer the question, it is better to include the essential parts of the answer here and provide the link for reference. Link-only answers can become invalid if the linked page changes. – Jay Blanchard Apr 24 '17 at 19:30
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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

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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

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    While this link may answer the question, it is better to include the essential parts of the answer here and provide the link for reference. Link-only answers can become invalid if the linked page changes. – Jay Blanchard Apr 24 '17 at 19:31
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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

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