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PHP Get Mobile Devices Location?

I am wondering if there is a way to get the current location from a mobile device in PHP? By current location I mean the last known location.

Thanks for any help!

Solution

  • HTML5 includes an extended JavaScript API that can help, geolocation is one of them, problem is that some browsers do not support it 100%, Firefox doing the best job. This how you would use it, after that you would pass values to PHP via AJAX.

    if(navigator.geolocation)
{
  navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(position)
    {
      var lat = position.coords.latitude;
      var lng = position.coords.longitude;
      doSomething();

    });
}