Laravel 9 Get Locations By IP Address

Sovary July 5, 2022 604
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Laravel 9 get locations country name, country code, city name, and address from user IP; In this article, we are going to explain how to get country info city name, postal code and address latitude, longitude from user IP address in Laravel 9 with package tevebauman/location.

Laravel 9 Get Locations By IP Address

Following step below to approche implement how to get location in Laravel

Step 1 - Install Laravel
Step 2 - Install Package tevebauman/location
Step 3 - Create Controller
Step 4 - Create Route
Step 5 - Create View (Blade)
Step 6 - Run Laravel Server

Step 1 - Install Laravel 9

You have to installed Laravel framework. Read this to know how to install Laravel 9 project with database configuration.

Step 2 - Install Package

We need install a third party package called tevebauman/location to enable Class to retrieve data related to Ip Address. Run following command in your root project

composer require stevebauman/location

In case, your Laravel version greater than 5.5+ you can skip the registration of the service provider below.

Open file app -> config.php

'providers' => [
    ....

    Stevebauman\Location\LocationServiceProvider::class
],

'aliases' => [
    ....

    'Location' => Stevebauman\Location\Facades\Location::class,
],

Run command below to publish config file.

php artisan vendor:publish

Step 3 - Create Controller

Next step, open you command prompt and execute below command to generate a controller file and Class named LocationController.

php artisan make:controller LocationController

Open file app -> Http -> Controllers -> LocationController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Location;

class LocationController extends Controller
{
    public function index(Request $request)
    {
      // For dynamic Ip testing
      //$ip = $request->ip();

      // For static Ip testing
      $ip = "36.68.17.155";
      $loc = Location::get($ip);
      return view('index',["location"=>$loc]);
    }
}

Step 4 - Adding Route

We are going to adding route to point URL and Controller, so open the web.php file and add the following code:

Open file routes -> web.php

<?php

use App\Http\Controllers\LocationController;

....

Route::get('/', [LocationController ::class, 'index']);

Step 5 - Create View (Blade)

We need a web page to display data which is render in HTML file. We are going to create a blade file call index.blade.php

Create file resources -> views -> index.blade.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Get Location via Ip Address - CamboTutorial.com</title>
    <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.0.2/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
  
<div class="container">
    <h1>Get Location via Ip Address - CamboTutorial.com</h1>
    <div class="card">
        <div class="card-header">
        <h3>Your IP: {{ $location->ip }}</h3>
        </div>
        <div class="card-body">
            <ul class="list-group">
            <li class="list-group-item"><h5>Country Name: {{ $location->countryName }}</h5> </li>
            <li class="list-group-item"><h5>Country Code: {{ $location->countryCode }}</h5></li>
            <li class="list-group-item"><h5>Region Code: {{ $location->regionCode }}</h5></li>
            <li class="list-group-item"><h5>Region Name: {{ $location->regionName }}</h5></li>
            <li class="list-group-item"><h5>Area Code: {{ $location->areaCode }}</h5></li>
            <li class="list-group-item"><h5>City Name: {{ $location->cityName }}</h5></li>
            <li class="list-group-item"><h5>Zip Code: {{ $location->zipCode }}</h5></li>
            <li class="list-group-item"><h5>Latitude: {{ $location->latitude }}</h5></li>
            <li class="list-group-item"><h5>Longitude: {{ $location->longitude }}</h5></li>
            <li class="list-group-item"><h5>City Name: {{ $location->cityName }}</h5></li>
            <li class="list-group-item"><h5>Time Zone: {{ $location->timezone }}</h5></li>
            </ul>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
  
</body>
</html>

Step 6 - Run Laravel Server

We are going start the Laravel server with following command, so we can test and launch the app via browser URL http://localhost:8000/

php artisan serve

laravel-9-get-geo-location-country-via-ip-address

Hope this tutorial help you to implement your project. Have a nice day!

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