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user8733713
user8733713

Reputation:

How to find IP Location in PHP?

Introduction

I have written following PHP code to find location based on IP address. But this code works properly at client side and does not work on server. What may be the problem?

Code

echo $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$details = json_decode(file_get_contents("http://ipinfo.io/{$ip}/json"));    
echo "<br>".$details->country; 
echo "<br>".$details->region; 
echo "<br>".$details->city;
echo "<br>".$details->loc; 
echo "<br>".$details->postal; 
echo "<br>".$details->org;

Problem

This code only shows ip address (executed first line only) and not showing any other details of location.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 689

Answers (3)

Ilcho Vuchkov
Ilcho Vuchkov

Reputation: 1

Official PHP library for IPinfo (IP geolocation and other types of IP data): https://github.com/ipinfo/php/

Upvotes: -1

Ahmed Numaan
Ahmed Numaan

Reputation: 1062

Your server's IP address can be found as follows:

echo $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'];

$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; gives you client or requesting browser/machine's IP address.

Upvotes: -1

Unamata Sanatarai
Unamata Sanatarai

Reputation: 6647

Not seeing your error message, I'm going to go ahead and assume file_get_contents has been blocked.

CURL the url, much more reliable.

<?php

echo $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
    CURLOPT_URL => "http://ipinfo.io/{$ip}/json"
));
$details = json_decode(curl_exec($curl));
curl_close($curl);

echo "<br>".$details->ip;
echo "<br>".$details->country;
echo "<br>".$details->region;
echo "<br>".$details->city;
echo "<br>".$details->loc;
echo "<br>".$details->postal;
echo "<br>".$details->org;

Upvotes: 5

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