Display User Location Information Based On IP address in Laravel

Get user location based on IP address in Laravel

In this example, you will get user location information based on their IP address. You need to install a package called stevebauman/location.

The stevebauman/location is an excellent library for detecting a user's location by their IP Address. It has ready-to-use methods for getting user's location data.

By using this package you can get below information:

Country Name
Country Code
Region Name
Region Code
City Name
Zip Code
ISO Code
Postal Code
Metro Code
Latitude and Longitude

Install stevebauman/location Package

For Installation, you just need to enter below command into the terminal.

composer require stevebauman/location

Here, we will use this package using import so we don't need to register into our application.

Create Location Controller

Let's create a controller for getting location data and display it using view. First thing you need to enter below command to create a controller :

php artisan make:controller LocationController

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Stevebauman\Location\Facades\Location; //import
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class LocationController extends Controller
{
    public function getLocation(Request $request)
    {
        // $ip = $request->ip(); /*For Actual IP address on Live Server */
        $ip = '66.150.71.232'; /* Static IP address */

        $locationInfo = Location::get($ip);
        return view('location-info', compact('locationInfo'))
    }
}

Here, getLocation() method will get the user's IP address from the request and get location data. At last, Pass that location data to view./p>

If you are running your application on a live server then you need to user $request->ip() method to get information. Here, IP address is defined statically for testing.

Create View

Now, you have location data so you will need a view to display information to a user. So create a view in views directory and make below changes.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
    <title>Display User Information Based On IP address - Codewolfy.com</title>
</head>
<body>
    <div class="container">
        <div class="card">
            <div class="card-body">
                @if($locationInfo)
                    <h4>IP Address: {{ $locationInfo->ip }}</h4>
                    <h4>Country : {{ $locationInfo->countryName }}</h4>
                    <h4>Country Code: {{ $locationInfo->countryCode }}</h4>
                    <h4>Region Code: {{ $locationInfo->regionCode }}</h4>
                    <h4>Region Name: {{ $locationInfo->regionName }}</h4>
                    <h4>City Name: {{ $locationInfo->cityName }}</h4>
                    <h4>Zip Code: {{ $locationInfo->zipCode }}</h4>
                    <h4>Latitude: {{ $locationInfo->latitude }}</h4>
                    <h4>Longitude: {{ $locationInfo->longitude }}</h4>
                    <h4>Area Code: {{ $locationInfo->areaCode }}</h4>
                @else
                    <h3>Something went wrong. Please try again</h3>
                @endif
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

Add Route

In the Last Step, you need to add a route. open the route file and make below changes :

<?php

use App\Http\Controllers\LocationController;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});

Route::get('get-my-location', [LocationController::class, 'getLocation']);