User IP address and location in Laravel 5.5

Question

I am trying to get the ip address and location of user during registration...when user sign up for the first time I want to save the ip address and his location in the database in users table.

Please give me a solution to get the ip address and location of the new user...

Below is the line which i am using but this gives me wrong IP address of localhost...

127.0.0.1

$user = new User([
        'firstname' => $data['firstname'],
        'lastname' => $data['lastname'],
        'company' => $data['company'],
        'email' => $data['email'],
        'password' => bcrypt($data['password']),
        'phone' => $data['phone'],
        'country' => $data['country'],
        'zipcode' => $data['zipcode'],
        'city' => $data['city'],
        'state' => $data['state'] == "other" ? $data['custom_state'] : $data['state'],
        'ip_address' => request()->ip(),
    ]);

Solution

try this to get the ip address of user:

'ip_address' => \Request::ip();

and after getting an ip address you can get the location from that ip using below package.

https://github.com/stevebauman/location

'position' = Location::get(ip_address);

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In the case of you get the localhost ip address then use this package to solve it: https://packagist.org/packages/fideloper/proxy

Comments

[RïshïKêsh Kümar]

hmm i try find wait

[MA-2016]

i am using this fideloper package but still getting the local host ip..not my original ip.

[Kabir Hossain]

If an user use a ip changer , what will happen ?