Determine the geographical location and currency of website visitors based on their IP addresses.
We have forked torann/geoip
as it’s almost not actively maintained anymore.
This fork works with modern PHP versions only (8.0+), maintained and includes additional features:
- Support modern Laravel and PHP versions
- Better types (native and PHPDoc)
- Safer file and network functionality
- Ability to prefix cache keys (
cache_prefix
config option) - Ability to change service using
GEOIP_SERVICE
env var - Updated currencies
- More predictable exceptions
But don’t worry, we are following SemVer 2.0. The package migration is straightforward.
From the command line run:
composer require interaction-design-foundation/laravel-geoip
Run this on the command line from the root of your project:
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="InteractionDesignFoundation\GeoIP\GeoIPServiceProvider" --tag=config
Quick breakdown of the two main options in the configuration file.
To find out more simple open the config/geoip.php
file.
To simplify and keep things clean, all third party composer packages, which are needed for a service, are installed separately.
For further configuration options, checkout the services page.
GeoIP uses Laravel’s default caching to store queried IP locations. This is done to reduce the number of calls made to the selected service, as some of them are rate limited.
Options:
all
all locations are cachedsome
cache only the requesting usernone
caching is completely disabled
There are few options to use the package:
geoip()
helper functionInteractionDesignFoundation\GeoIP\Facades\GeoIP
facade
geoip()->getLocation('27.974.399.65'); // Get the location from the provided IP.
geoip()->getClientIP(); // Will return the user IP address.
Example of a Location
object:
\InteractionDesignFoundation\GeoIP\Location {[
'ip' => '1.1.1.1',
'iso_code' => 'US',
'country' => 'United States',
'city' => 'New Haven',
'state' => 'CT',
'state_name' => 'Connecticut',
'postal_code' => '06510',
'lat' => 41.28,
'lon' => -72.88,
'timezone' => 'America/New_York',
'continent' => 'NA',
'currency' => 'USD',
'default' => false,
]}
Location
class implements \ArrayAccess
interface, means you can access properties of the Location
object using both object and array access:
$location = geoip()->getLocation();
$city = $location->city;
// The same as:
$city = $location['city'];
Some services require downloading and use a local database to detect Location by IP address. There is a console command to download/update database:
php artisan geoip:update
Some cache drivers offer the ability to clear cached locations:
php artisan geoip:clear
Please see Releases for more information on what has changed recently.
Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.
Many people have contributed to the project since its inception.
Thanks to:
- Daniel Stainback (creator of the original package)
- Dwight Watson
- nikkiii
- jeffhennis
- max-kovpak
- dotpack
- Jess Archer