enabling geolocation in codeigniter

Question

I want to retrieve information like the city, state, and country of a user from their IP address, so that I can display posts according to their location. Is there a good and reliable way to do this in PHP codeigniter? I am using PHP codeigniter for server-side scripting, and MySQL for the database. Thanks

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 15 '17 at 07:57

Hi you will need to contact an external service to do this.

In codeigniter you can use $this->input->ip_address() to get the IP address and you can pass it to a free service like IP Find to get the location information.

<?php
$request_uri = 'https://ipfind.co';
$ip_address = $this->input->ip_address();
$auth = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE';
$url = $request_uri . "?ip=" . $ip_address;
$document = file_get_contents($url);
$result = json_decode($document);
?>

Result:

{
ip_address: "8.8.8.8",
country: "United States",
country_code: "US",
continent: "North America",
continent_code: "NA",
city: null,
county: null,
region: null,
region_code: null,
timezone: null,
owner: null,
longitude: -97.822,
latitude: 37.751,
currency: "USD",
languages: [
"en-US",
"es-US",
"haw",
"fr"
]
}

enabling geolocation in codeigniter

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