Do you want to find out the Geolocation of visitors using Laravel? Using the Laravel GeoIP library, you can get the geolocation of a user by their IP address. In this article, we discuss this library that can be easily integrated into the Laravel application to find the GeoIP.

There are a few cases where you need to get details about the geographical location of your visitors. These details include latitude, longitude, time zone, country, currency, etc.

The online store is probably an example where you require to get Geolocation. In your store, you may want to display different prices and currencies based on the country or region of the visitor. Another example is if someone needs to block their websites for a few countries.

That being said, let’s take a look at how to find Geolocation using the IP address in Laravel.

Install and Configure Laravel GeoIP Library

For getting started, you need to install the Laravel Geoip library. Install the library using the command:

composer require torann/geoip

Upon library installation, register the service provider with your application. Open config/app.php and add service providers to the providers array.

'providers' => [
    ......
    \Torann\GeoIP\GeoIPServiceProvider::class,
 
],

Next, add the Facade to the aliases array.

'aliases' => Facade::defaultAliases()->merge([
    ...
    'GeoIP' => \Torann\GeoIP\Facades\GeoIP::class,
])->toArray(),

After the above steps, publish the configuration using the command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Torann\GeoIP\GeoIPServiceProvider" --tag=config

This command publishes a configuration file to config/geoip.php.

Find Out Geolocation Using IP Address

The library provides a method where you need to pass the actual IP address. In return, you get the Geolocation information of an IP address.

Place the below code in your application to fetch details of an IP address.

$arr_ip = geoip()->getLocation('YOUR_IP_ADDRESS_HERE');
print_r($arr_ip);
echo $arr_ip->country; // get a country
echo $arr_ip->currency; // get a currency

You may get the IP address of a user using the getClientIP() method provided by this library.

$arr_ip = geoip()->getLocation(geoip()->getClientIP());

While using the library, it can be possible you get the error ‘This cache store does not support tagging’ with BadMethodCallException. If it occurs, just change the below line from the config/geoip.php file.

Replace

'cache_tags' => ['torann-geoip-location'],

With

'cache_tags' => [],

Now try again to run your code. This time you should get the output.

I hope you got to know how to integrate GeoIP on the Laravel website. Please share your thoughts and suggestions in the comment section below.

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