Overview
This PHP script uses the current users IP address to get the location information about that user. It send the ip address to ipinfo.io and receive an array back with users location information.
PHP Code:
<?php
//#################################################################
//GET LOCATION DATA
//#################################################################
function getLocationData($url) {
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
$location_content = json_decode($this->getLocationData('http://ipinfo.io/'.$ipOfUser), true);
echo $location_content;
?>
