How to Get User Location Using IP Address In PHP

In this tutorial we will show you how to get user’s complete location using users IP address in PHP with the help of GeoPlugin and freegeoip web service.

Example 1

<?php
    $ip='77.99.179.20';
    $location = file_get_contents('http://freegeoip.net/json/'.$ip);
    print_r($location);
?>

Output

{
    "ip":"77.99.179.20",
    "country_code":"GB",
    "country_name":"United Kingdom",
    "region_code":"ENG",
    "region_name":"England",
    "city":"Cheltenham",
    "zip_code":"GL52",
    "time_zone":"Europe/London",
    "latitude":51.9222,
    "longitude":-2.0509,
    "metro_code":0
}

Example 2

<?php
    $ip='77.99.179.20';
    echo var_export(unserialize(file_get_contents('http://www.geoplugin.net/php.gp?ip='.$ip)));
?>

Output

array ( 
'geoplugin_request' => '77.99.179.20', 
'geoplugin_status' => 200, 
'geoplugin_credit' => 'Some of the returned data includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind, available from http://www.maxmind.com.', 'geoplugin_city' => 'Cheltenham',
 'geoplugin_region' => 'Gloucestershire', 
'geoplugin_areaCode' => '0', 
'geoplugin_dmaCode' => '0',
 'geoplugin_countryCode' => 'GB',
 'geoplugin_countryName' => 'United Kingdom', 'geoplugin_continentCode' => 'EU', 
'geoplugin_latitude' => '51.9222',
 'geoplugin_longitude' => '-2.0509', 
'geoplugin_regionCode' => 'E6', 
'geoplugin_regionName' => 'Gloucestershire', 
'geoplugin_currencyCode' => 'GBP', 
'geoplugin_currencySymbol' => '£', 
'geoplugin_currencySymbol_UTF8' => 'Â£',
'geoplugin_currencyConverter' => '0.7077', 
)