The Laravel Geolocation Request package provides an easy way to geolocate requests to their country of origin, simply by calling a $request->country() method.

To install the Laravel Geolocation Request package, just run the following Composer command.

composer require divineomega/laravel-geolocation-request

To use geolocation enabled requests within your Laravel controller methods, you can replace the use Illuminate\Http\Request line at the top of your controllers, as shown in the usage example below.

Once done, you can simple call the $request->country() method to perform geolocation and return the origin country of the active request based on its IP address. The country is returned as an object containing many properties, such as the country name and ISO codes.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

//use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use DivineOmega\LaravelGeolocationRequest\Http\Requests\GeolocationRequest as Request;

class UserController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Store a new user.
     *
     * @param  Request  $request
     * @return Response
     */
    public function store(Request $request)
    {
        // Perform geolocation, and return a country object.
        $country = $request->country();
        
        $user = new \App\User();
        $user->name = $request->name;
        $user->countryName = $country->name;
        $user->countryCode = $country->isoCodeAlpha3;
        
        $user->save();
        
        // ...
    }
}

If you are using custom request objects, you can change them to extend the provided GeolocationRequest class. If you unable to extend your custom request object, or simply do not wish to, you can add geolocation functionality by using the provided GeolocatableRequest trait.