Category:Contributions -> Plugins -> Miscellaneous | Category:Plugin -> Geo Locator
A simple plug-in to get user’s geo location details by current / given IP address
Following plug-in is based on IP Address Geolocation XML API
Copy the code and create a file as geo_location_pi.php, Place the file into your system/plugins folder.
<?php if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
/**
* Geo Location Plugin
*
* @package CodeIgniter
* @subpackage System
* @category Plugin
*/
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
/*
Instructions:
Load the plugin using:
$this->load->plugin('geo_location');
Once loaded you can get user's geo location details by IP address
$ip = $this->input->ip_address();
$geo_data = geolocation_by_ip($ip);
echo "Country code : ".$geo_data['country_name']."\n";
echo "Country name : ".$geo_data['city']."\n";
...
NOTES:
The get_geolocation function will use current IP address, if IP param is not given.
RETURNED DATA
The get_geolocation() function returns an associative array with this data:
[array]
(
'ip'=>$ip,
'country_code'=>$result->CountryCode,
'country_name'=>$result->CountryName,
'region_name'=>$result->RegionName,
'city'=>$result->City,
'zip_postal_code'=>$result->ZipPostalCode,
'latitude'=>$result->Latitude,
'longitude'=>$result->Longitude,
'timezone'=>$result->Timezone,
'gmtoffset'=>$result->Gmtoffset,
'dstoffset'=>$result->Dstoffset
)
*/
/**
* Get Geo Location by Given/Current IP address
*
* @access public
* @param string
* @return array
*/
if (!function_exists('get_geolocation')) {
function get_geolocation($ip) {
$d = file_get_contents("http://www.ipinfodb.com/ip_query.php?ip=$ip&output=xml");
//Use backup server if cannot make a connection
if (!$d) {
$backup = file_get_contents("http://backup.ipinfodb.com/ip_query.php?ip=$ip&output=xml");
$result = new SimpleXMLElement($backup);
if (!$backup)
return false; // Failed to open connection
} else {
$result = new SimpleXMLElement($d);
}
//Return the data as an array
return array('ip'=>$ip, 'country_code'=>$result->CountryCode, 'country_name'=>$result->CountryName, 'region_name'=>$result->RegionName, 'city'=>$result->City, 'zip_postal_code'=>$result->ZipPostalCode, 'latitude'=>$result->Latitude, 'longitude'=>$result->Longitude, 'timezone'=>$result->Timezone, 'gmtoffset'=>$result->Gmtoffset, 'dstoffset'=>$result->Dstoffset);
}
}
/* End of file geo_location_pi.php */
/* Location: ./system/plugins/geo_location_pi.php */