overals/yii2-geoip2

Yii2 GeoIP2 extension. Returns country, city, latitude, longitude, time zone, iso code, continent, subdivisions by IP (uses MaxMind's GeoIP2 databases)

Yii2 GeoIP2 extension

Provides information about geographical location of user by IP address., _(*1)

Currently available: * Country * City * Latitude, Longitude * Time Zone * ISO Code * Continent * Subdivisions, _(*2)

Installation

$ php composer.phar require overals/yii2-geoip2 "~1.0.1"

OR

Add to your composer.json, _(*3)

{
    "require": {
        "overals/yii2-geoip2": "~1.0.1"
    }
}

and run, _(*4)

$ composer update

Usage

Update your config file - config/web.php, _(*5)

<?php

$config = [
    ...
    'components' => [
        'geoip2' => [
            'class' => 'overals\GeoIP2\GeoIP2',
            'mmdb' => '@app/components/GeoIP2/GeoLite2-City.mmdb',
            'lng' => 'en', // available languages = 'de', 'en', 'es', 'ja', 'ru', 'zh-CN'
        ],
    ]
    ...
];

somewhere in code:, _(*6)

$ip = Yii::$app->component->geoip2->getInfoByIP(); // current user ip
$ip = Yii::$app->component->geoip2->getInfoByIP("8.8.8.8");

$ip->continent; // "North America"
$ip->country; // "United States"
$ip->isoCode; // "US"
$ip->subdivisions; // "California"
$ip->city; // "Mountain View"
$ip->location->longitude; // -122.0838
$ip->location->latitude; // 37.386

This product uses GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind, available from http://www.maxmind.com, _(*7)

Where you can download Maxmind Free DBs?

From http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/, _(*8)

OR

    cd /usr/local/share/GeoIP (change to your folder)
    wget -N -q http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLite2-City.mmdb.gz
    gunzip -c GeoLite2-City.mmdb.gz > GeoLite2-City.mmdb