• NAME
• VERSION
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• HELPERS
  • geolocation
• SUBROUTINES/METHODS
  • register
• DIAGNOSTICS
• CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT
• DEPENDENCIES
• INCOMPATIBILITIES
• AUTHOR
• BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
• LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

NAME

Mojolicious::Plugin::Geolocation::MMDB - Look up location information by IP address

VERSION

version 0.003

SYNOPSIS

  use Mojolicious::Lite -signatures;

  plugin 'Geolocation::MMDB', {file => 'Country.mmdb'};

  get '/' => sub ($c) {
    my $location = $c->geolocation;
    my $country =
      eval { $location->{country}->{names}->{en} } // 'unknown location';
    $c->render(text => "Welcome visitor from $country");
  };

  app->start;

DESCRIPTION

This Mojolicious plugin provides a helper that maps IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to location information such as country and city names.

HELPERS

geolocation

  my $request_location   = $c->geolocation;
  my $arbitrary_location = $c->geolocation('1.2.3.4');

If no IP address is given, the location of the current transaction's remote address is looked up. Otherwise, the specified IP address is looked up. Returns the undefined value if no location information is available for the IP address. Dies if the address is not a valid IP address.

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

register

  $plugin->register(Mojolicious->new, {file => 'City.mmdb'});

Registers the plugin in a Mojolicious application. The "file" parameter is required.

DIAGNOSTICS

The "file" parameter is mandatory

The plugin was loaded without a database filename.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

If your application is behind a reverse proxy, the environment variable MOJO_REVERSE_PROXY needs to bet set. See Mojolicious::Guides::Cookbook for more information.

DEPENDENCIES

Requires the Perl modules Mojolicious and IP::Geolocation::MMDB from CPAN.

Requires an IP to country, city or ASN database in the MaxMind DB file format from MaxMind or DP-IP.com.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None.

AUTHOR

Andreas Vögele <voegelas@cpan.org>

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

None known.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2022 Andreas Vögele

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.