How to check city with ip address

Question

I am working on a real estate site. I need to show properties of a specific city only on the home page. How can I check the ip of the visitor and check the city from where he is visiting ?

Answer 1

You can get user ip with:

$request->ip()

Then you need to send request to api that give you a location of an ip, some of these services are:

1. https://ip-api.com
2. https://ipstack.com
3. https://ipapi.co

Answer 2

you can use : request()->ip();

or

you can also use \Request::ip();

Answer 3

Thanks everybody. Will try these options.