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PHP Get User's Location From IP Address

PHP GET USER'S LOCATION FROM IP ADDRESS

https://code-boxx.com/get-user-country-from-ip-php/

NOTES

(Not sponsored) Register an account with ipgeolocation, generate your API key and enter into geo-ip.php below.

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<?php
// (A) SETTINGS + URL
$settings = [
"apiKey" => "YOUR-API-KEY",
"ip" => $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"],
"lang" => "en",
"fields" => "*"
];
$url = "https://api.ipgeolocation.io/ipgeo?";
foreach ($settings as $k=>$v) { $url .= urlencode($k)."=".urlencode($v)."&"; }
$url = substr($url, 0, -1);
// (B) INIT CURL
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// (C) CURL FETCH
$result = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) { echo curl_error($ch); }
else {
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
$result = json_decode($result, 1);
print_r($result); // geo ip information
print_r($info); // more information on the curl call
}
curl_close($ch);
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