PHP to Geo target content for country.

Hello

I am trying to show/geo target content for certian countries that my visitors to my site are from.

I have doing a little research on google and have found a few script but for some reason they do not work.

I know about the geoip database from maxmind but I am looking for a remote solution as the geoip database is said to be a heavy strain on servers if you get a lot of visitors. I am hosted on a shared server so I do not want to get my account suspended for over working the server. Also I have a few sites that will use this idea.

This is a script I found whilst googling and all it does is give me an error.

<?php 
$ip = $_SERVER [ 'REMOTE_ADDR' ]; 
$country = file_get_contents ( 'http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip=' . $ip ); 
if ( $country == "US" ) { 
echo "<American-English Ringtone Ad Tag>" ; } 
elseif ( $country == "AU" OR $country == "UK" OR $country == "IE" ) { 
echo "<British-English Ringtone Ad Tag>" ; } 
else { 
echo "<YPN Ad Tag>" ; } 
?>

This is the error it gives me:-

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/username/public_html/webaddress.co.uk/test/test.php on line 7

What I am trying to do is to geo target Javascript ads for different countries. When I add the javascript ad it gives me that error. If I just put in normal text then it works ok.

Thank you all for your help in advance.

<?php 
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$country = file_get_contents('http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip='.$ip);
if ($country=="US") {
  echo "<American-English Ringtone Ad Tag>" ;
} elseif ($country=="AU" || $country=="UK" || $country=="IE") {
  echo "<British-English Ringtone Ad Tag>";
} else {
  echo "<YPN Ad Tag>";
}
?>

Couple of things...

1. PHP uses || instead of OR

2. If displaying < or > on a web page you need to use the codes otherwise the browser will try and interpret the contents as HTML and nothing will be displayed

As an extra, if you're choosing multiple country codes a switch() conditional would be better.

switch ($country) {
  case "US":
    echo "<American-English Ringtone Ad Tag>";
    break;
  case "UK":
  case "IE":
  case "AU":
    echo "<British-English Ringtone Ad Tag>";
    break;
  default:
    echo "<YPN Ad Tag>";
}

Thank you for yout reply.

That seams to work with text but when I put in a javascript ad code it gives me an error:-

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/username/public_html/webaddress.co.uk/test/test.php on line 9

Any advice to help me show javascript ads for different locations would be very much appreciated. I have been trying to solve this problem now for months.

Thanks all in advance for your advice.

You can post your Javascript and I'll have a quick look but you're better off posting that in the Javascript section - also because if I can't sort it someone else might.

As for the above script, if hostip.info ever goes down or has difficulties your web page will have until file_get_contents() times out. I just knocked this up using cURL that will wait a maximum of 2 seconds - you can change this to however long you want your script to wait, replace the file_get_contents line with the following:

$ch=curl_init('http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip='.$ip);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HEADER,false);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,2);
$country=curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
  echo 'ERROR';
}
curl_close($ch);

Just thought - if your PHP routine above is outputing straight into a Javascript routine change the > and < for the > and < respectively and try again.

Thanks for the reply.

I have changed the > and < with the < etc as you suggested and I still get the same error.

What I am trying to do is to post a ebay affiliate link that I created using there ebay tool kit program. It produces a javascript code that you paste in your website. And for some reason it is not working when I paste into the php.

1. PHP uses || instead of OR

Just for education's sake, PHP actually uses both, but they have different operator precedences.  See:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison.php

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.logical.php

What is the JavaScript code you're actually trying to use?

What I am trying to do is to post a ebay affiliate link that I created using there ebay tool kit program.

It is the code that the EPN or the Ebay partner Netword Editors tool kit creates.

Thanks

Try putting < and > only. And not &glt; etc.

I think you are passing that only to javascript and not showing it on html.

If problem persists....you need to put here (into the forum) the javascript. Then only somebody can help

One more thing, even file_get_contents() can be made to handle timeout.

check http://www.expertsguide.info/2010/08/set-time-out-while-downloading-files/, for the same and other different ways to implement timeouts.