How to Get Current User Location in Laravel | laravel get location

Step 1: Install Laravel

first of all we need to get fresh Laravel 8 version application using bellow command, So open your terminal OR command prompt and run bellow command:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

Step 2: Install stevebauman/location Package

here, we will install stevebauman/location package for getting current location on login user.

composer require stevebauman/location

Step 3: Create Route

In this is step we need to create some routes for add to cart function.

routes/web.php

<?php
  
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
  
use App\Http\Controllers\UserController;
  
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/
  
Route::get('display-user', [UserController::class, 'index']);

Step 4: Create Controller

in this step, we need to create UserController and add following code on that file:

app/Http/Controllers/UserController.php

<?php
  
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
  
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Stevebauman\Location\Facades\Location;
  
class UserController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function index(Request $request)
    {
        /* $ip = $request->ip(); Dynamic IP address */
        $ip = '162.159.24.227'; /* Static IP address */
        $currentUserInfo = Location::get($ip);
          
        return view('user', compact('currentUserInfo'));
    }
}

Step 5: Create Blade Files

here, we need to create blade file for user. so let's create one by one files:

resources/views/user.blade.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title></title>
    <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.0.2/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
  
<div class="container">
    <h1>How to Get Current User Location with Laravel -Basabaribd.com</h1>
    <div class="card">
        <div class="card-body">
            @if($currentUserInfo)
                <h4>IP: {{ $currentUserInfo->ip }}</h4>
                <h4>Country Name: {{ $currentUserInfo->countryName }}</h4>
                <h4>Country Code: {{ $currentUserInfo->countryCode }}</h4>
                <h4>Region Code: {{ $currentUserInfo->regionCode }}</h4>
                <h4>Region Name: {{ $currentUserInfo->regionName }}</h4>
                <h4>City Name: {{ $currentUserInfo->cityName }}</h4>
                <h4>Zip Code: {{ $currentUserInfo->zipCode }}</h4>
                <h4>Latitude: {{ $currentUserInfo->latitude }}</h4>
                <h4>Longitude: {{ $currentUserInfo->longitude }}</h4>
            @endif
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
  
</body>
</html>