Get data from public ip about laravel

[marcemarin]

But in the docs you do "$ip_address = '216.239.36.21';", i need to get that ip from the client request

[UmanShahzad]

@marcemarin If you want your public IP, this is the wrong package - use the PHP package at https://github.com/ipinfo/php.

This package is meant to retrieve details automatically for the client IP of the request. It will not make requests for any random IP you wish, which is what the underlying PHP package is for.

In this case the "client IP" was "172.18.0.1". If an outside user had the IP "1.2.3.4" and hit your Laravel endpoint, you'd see that IP instead.

[coderholic]

172.18.0.1 is a bogon - it isn't the client IP (assuming the request was made over the public internet). @marcemarin do you have a loadbalancer or something? Or are you making requests to a dev server over a local network or something?

[marcemarin]

Thanks a lot guys, it works perfect

[UmanShahzad]

It's definitely a matter of making requests to a dev server over the local network.

@marcemarin To elaborate a bit more, you need to use the PHP package and input the IP you want to look up within your request handler. This Laravel package is a simple wrapper over the PHP package and is dedicated to one thing: automating the lookup of the client IP.