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Joomla Geolocator Plugin

Created for a client of mine. Uses HTML5 geolocation first, and then backs up to IP Address based geolocation.

Uses geoposition.js: https://github.com/estebanav/javascript-mobile-desktop-geolocation

Access Data Via JSession

Once geo data is found, it gets stored in JSession. This makes it accessible to any other component that wants to access it in Joomla.

Getting User Position

$session = JFactory::getSession();

// check that the plugin has set the position
if ($session->get('jgeo_position_status', false)) {
    // assuming we have the position available, you can access the json object
    // the object will be an empty array if it hasn't been set as well
    $position = json_decode($session->get('jgeo_position'));
    var_dump($position);

    // access the object data
    $lat = $position->latitude;
    $lng = $position->longitude;
}