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ashleybay
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Posted on - 07/28/2011
Hi,
I'm developing a website for local tourism in our place. The website features tourist spot and tourist oriented related establishments in our locality. It also show the location of this places in the map with geographical information system. But I also want to show the visitors where they are currently located so they would see how far they are from this tourist spots and destinations. I want to trace their current location by their IP address. I've seen many website done this but I have no idea. Hope you could answer my question.
Best regards,
Ashley
How to trace the location through IP Address using PHP?
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To resolve this problem you have two options. One you can get an IP address tracker tool. This is a very effective tool that is very fast very effective at tracing the exact location of the IP address. Two you can also get the IP locator is used to allocate the geographical position using the IP address.
How to trace the location through IP Address using PHP?
Hello! I hope you are fine. This would be helpful regarding your question . We can trace the IP address of all visitors by using PHP coding. To find IP address , it is an important requirement for many of the scripts where we have to store the member or visitors detail. For security purpose we can also store/trace IP address of our visitors who are doing any type of purchases or may be tracing the geographical location of the visitor can be done this way also.If we know , the IP address , some times we can  redirect browser to different areas of the site. On searching you will find there are many applications using this. Now here is a PHP code to find out the IP address of any visitor to the site,
The given code will display this 111.88.73.5
$ip=@$REMOTE_ADDR;
echo "<b>IP Address= $ip</b>";
IP address (When the register_global is off)
If at php.ini the register global is off , so we will have to modify the script a little to get the Ip address.
It is given
$ip=$_SERVER ('REMOTE_ADDR') ;
Observe that modifying register global setting may be due to a security problem. It is particularly in live hosting environment. So confirm and consult your host before doing this.
You can also see the changing done to signup and login script if global variable is off.We can also change the dot formatting , Ip address to number using ip2long function to restore mysql database.
Regards!
