In this tutorial, we will use php to get vistor’s country and city by ip address, this way is based on ipstack API.

1.Get verstor’s ip address using php

<?php
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
?>

2.Use ip address to get country and city

We will use ipstack api to get these information.

ipstak api likes:

http://api.ipstack.com/IP_ADDRESS?access_key=API_KEY

where API_KEY is your access key.

Then we will get country and city by this api in php.

<?php
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; 
$api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY";
$freegeoipjson = file_get_contents("http://api.ipstack.com/".$ip."?access_key=".$api_key."");

$jsondata = json_decode($freegeoipjson);

$countryfromip = $jsondata->country_name;
$cityfromip = $jsondata->city;

echo "City: ". $cityfromip ."";
echo "<br/>";
echo "Country: ". $countryfromip ."";
?>