Get Visitor Information by IP Address in PHP

In this article, you will learn how to get visitor full information, like Country, State, Region, Timezone, Latitude, Longitude and so on, using visitor's IP address in PHP.

The site visitor information is so important. By using this you can easily know about the geographical locations of users, you can also show or hide the visitors from particular countries. You can also store the visitor's information in the database to make your own analytics report.

At the first, we get the current IP address using PHP predefined $_SERVER variable and REMOTE_ADDR to get IP address of the current user.

$ip =  $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

Next, we will use the third api to get the full information of IP address. In this article, we are using 'geoplugin' api. The information received by the third party is not more readable. So first convert them into a string using PHP file_get_contents() function and decode them using json_decode() function.

$ip_info = @json_decode(file_get_contents("http://www.geoplugin.net/json.gp?ip=".$ip));  

Complete Code: Get Visitor Information by IP Address in PHP

Here is the very simple code in PHP to get all visitor's details.

<?php
$ip =  $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$ip_info = @json_decode(file_get_contents("http://www.geoplugin.net/json.gp?ip=".$ip));  

if($ip_info && $ip_info->geoplugin_countryName != null){
	echo 'Country = '.$ip_info->geoplugin_countryName.'<br/>';
	echo 'Country Code = '.$ip_info->geoplugin_countryCode.'<br/>';
	echo 'City = '.$ip_info->geoplugin_city.'<br/>';
	echo 'Region = '.$ip_info->geoplugin_region.'<br/>';
	echo 'Latitude = '.$ip_info->geoplugin_latitude.'<br/>';
	echo 'Longitude = '.$ip_info->geoplugin_longitude.'<br/>';
	echo 'Timezone = '.$ip_info->geoplugin_timezone.'<br/>';
	echo 'Continent Code = '.$ip_info->geoplugin_continentCode.'<br/>';
	echo 'Continent Name = '.$ip_info->geoplugin_continentName.'<br/>';
	echo 'Timezone = '.$ip_info->geoplugin_timezone.'<br/>';
	echo 'Currency Code = '.$ip_info->geoplugin_currencyCode;
}
?>

Output of the above code -