Level 16
I found an immensely complete package for geo-ip lookups, as well as geo-coding and other geo-referencial processes: https://github.com/geocoder-php/GeocoderLaravel
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Aug 16, 2014
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Level 10
Using GeoIp for fetching location
How can i fetch geolocation for user who submit form on website? For example, when someone submit form, i want to display best moods from that specific country?
I found this package https://github.com/torann/laravel-4-geoip and put little snippet
$location = GeoIP::getLocation( );
dd($location);
but i always recieve US even tough i'm located in Croatia. I put my own IP then i recieve this error
The file "/home/vagrant/howdoyou/app/database/maxmind/GeoLite2-City.mmdb" does not exist or is not readable.
How can i use this package? Do i have to store IP address first in db?
Level 10
GeoIP works just fine. I had to download packeg that contains all maps teritory. It works great, and it's very easy to use.
Level 1
hi @sasafister i am facing the same problem can you please tell me how to solve this
Non-static method Torann\GeoIP\GeoIP::getLocation() should not be called statically Here is my code $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; $location = GeoIP::getlocation($ip); dd($location);
Level 10
@Nasir that was two years ago, I don' remember, but try to read documentation
Level 1
'Torann\GeoIP\GeoIPServiceProvider', this is the provider i am using 'GeoIP' => 'Torann\GeoIP\GeoIPFacade', this is the alias. Thanks for your time @sasafister
Level 1
Problem Solved by revising the steps from another source
Level 1
I use https://freegeoip.app - no registration required, just use https://freegeoip.app/json/8.8.8.8 for example and get the data. 15k req. per hour rate limit
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