Get client's location using IP address Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Sometime we need to know the user or client location. This script show the user location on google map like facebook. Its very simple try it.
Code: 

<?php $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; //'174.120.168.126'; //Get the users City, State and Country. $sturl = 'http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip='.$ip; $ch = curl_init($sturl); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,10); $res = curl_exec($ch); $resinfo = curl_getinfo($ch); curl_close($ch); preg_match('/City: ([a-zA-Z].+[a-zA-Z]+)/', $res, $r); preg_match('/ \(([A-Z][A-Z])/', $res, $s); $city = $r[1]; $country = $s[1]; //Call the Google API to get the latitude and longitude. $key = "Your Google Maps API Key"; $address = urlencode($city.", ".$country); $sturl = 'http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=' . $address . '&output=csv&key=' . $key; $ch = curl_init($sturl); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true); curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,10); $res = curl_exec($ch); $resinfo = curl_getinfo($ch); curl_close($ch); $res = explode(",",$res); $latitude = $res[2]; $longitude = $res[3]; /*Google map image with key*/ // $image_url = "http://maps.google.com/staticmap?key=$key&size=506x280&markers=$latitude,$longitude&zoom=3"; //echo "<img src='".image_url."'>"; /*Google map without key*/ $image_url= "http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=$latitude,$longitude&ie=UTF8&ll=$latitude,$longitude&spn=0.006482,0.011362&t=m&z=14&output=embed"; ?> <iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="<?php echo $image_url; ?>" ></iframe>