php-ip2geolocation - Geo Location details with PHP

Grab users Geo Location details using ClarifyIP & PHP

Getting Started

Getting users Geo location is simplified using Curl and ClarifyIP service (free service up to 10k requests per month).

Prerequisites

PHP Curl ClarifyIP API KEY.

How to implement

Example 1

// set IP address and API access key 
$ip = '185.245.87.169';
$access_key = 'YOUR_ACCESS_KEY';
// Initialize CURL:
$ch = curl_init('https://api.clarifyip.com/?ip='.$ip.'&key='.$access_key.'');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Store the data:
$json = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
// Decode JSON response:
$api_result = json_decode($json, true);
// Output the "latitude" object inside "location"
echo $api_result['location']['latitude'];

Example 2

// set IP address and API access key 
$ip = isset($_GET['ip']) ? $_GET['ip'] : (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']) ? $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'] : (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']) ? $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'] : $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']));
//Add some fancy check is IP valid
$access_key = 'YOUR_ACCESS_KEY';
// Initialize CURL:
$ch = curl_init('https://api.clarifyip.com/?ip='.$ip.'&key='.$access_key.'');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Store the data:
$json = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
header('Content-type:application/json');
print_r($json);