Locate

Locate is a Laravel bundle for easily accessing visitor geolocation data.

Install via Artisan

php artisan bundle:install locate

Add the following to your application/bundles.php array:

'locate' => array('auto' => true),

Configuration

• Open /bundles/locate/config/options.php
• You can manage the refresh rate, service priority, service API information, and fallback details

Usage

Simply call Locate::get() with one of the available values and the data will be returned. Locate stores the geolocation data within your session and only updates if you manually call Locate::refresh() or the refresh_rate in config/options.php is met.

echo 'Service Used: ' . Locate::get('service') . "\n";
echo 'Timestamp: ' . Locate::get('timestamp') . "\n";
echo 'IP: ' . Locate::get('ip') . "\n";
echo 'City: ' . Locate::get('city') . "\n";
echo 'State: ' . Locate::get('state') . "\n";
echo 'State Acronym: ' . Locate::get('state_code') . "\n";
echo 'Country: ' . Locate::get('country') . "\n";
echo 'Country Acronym: ' . Locate::get('country_code') . "\n";
echo 'Zipcode: ' . Locate::get('zipcode') . "\n";
echo 'Latitude: ' . Locate::get('lat') . "\n";
echo 'Longitude: ' . Locate::get('lng') . "\n";

Manually update location data:

Locate::refresh();

Services Currently Supported

• IPInfoDB - Requires API key: http://ipinfodb.com/register.php
• FreeGeoIP
• ... more on the way