furey-imagination/laravel4-geoip

Determine the geographical location of website visitors based on their IP address.

GeoIP for Laravel 4

, _(*1)

Determine the geographical location of website visitors based on their IP addresses., _(*2)

Installation

• GeoIP for Laravel 4 on Packagist
• GeoIP for Laravel 4 on GitHub

To get the latest version of GeoIP simply require it in your composer.json file., _(*3)

"furey-imagination/laravel4-geoip": "0.1.*"

You'll then need to run composer install to download it and have the autoloader updated., _(*4)

Once GeoIP is installed you need to register the service provider with the application. Open up app/config/app.php and find the providers key., _(*5)

'providers' => array(

    'Torann\GeoIP\GeoIPServiceProvider',

)

GeoIP also ships with a facade which provides the static syntax for creating collections. You can register the facade in the aliases key of your app/config/app.php file., _(*6)

'aliases' => array(

    'GeoIP' => 'Torann\GeoIP\GeoIPFacade',

)

Create configuration file using artisan, _(*7)

$ php artisan config:publish furey-imagination/laravel4-geoip

Usage

Get the location data for a website visitor:, _(*8)

$location = GeoIP::getLocation();

When an IP is not given the $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] is used., _(*9)

Getting the location data for a given IP:, _(*10)

$location = GeoIP::getLocation( '232.223.11.11' );

Example Data

array (
    "ip"           => "232.223.11.11",
    "isoCode"      => "US",
    "country"      => "United States",
    "city"         => "New Haven",
    "state"        => "CT",
    "postal_code"  => "06510",
    "lat"          => 41.28,
    "lon"          => -72.88,
    "timezone"     => "America/New_York",
    "continent"    => "NA",
    "default"      => false
);

Note

In the case that a location is not found the fallback location will be returned with the default parameter set to true. In a future release I'll make the default location customizable. For not it is New Haven, CT., _(*11)

Services

MaxMind

• Database Service: To use the database version of MaxMind services download the GeoLite2-City.mmdb from http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/ and extract it to /app/database/maxmind/. And that's it.