How to approach this

[wemustdesign]

I am creating a php directory from scratch. I am starting the directory with UK business's and then american business's. I am not sure how to approach creating a multi region directory, is it possible to get php to tell which area the user is from and thus only display the directory that is specific to there location?

[Fruct0se]

While it is not always possible to get the users country here are a couple functions that will attempt to get the users language and country. You can call this by using:

 

$anyvar = get_language();

 

The value of $anyvar will be the detected language and/or country retreived from the user. Good luck.

 

<?php
function get_languages()
{
    // get the languages
    $a_languages = languages();

    $accepted = explode(",", $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']);
    for ($i = 0; $i < count($accepted); $i++) {
        if ($a_languages[$accepted[$i]]) {
            return $a_languages[$accepted[$i]];
        }
    }
}

function languages()
{
    // pack abbreviation/language array
    // important note: you must have the default language as the last item in each major language, after all the
    // en-ca type entries, so en would be last in that case
    $a_languages = array('af' => 'Afrikaans', 'sq' => 'Albanian', 'ar-dz' =>
        'Arabic (Algeria)', 'ar-bh' => 'Arabic (Bahrain)', 'ar-eg' => 'Arabic (Egypt)',
        'ar-iq' => 'Arabic (Iraq)', 'ar-jo' => 'Arabic (Jordan)', 'ar-kw' =>
        'Arabic (Kuwait)', 'ar-lb' => 'Arabic (Lebanon)', 'ar-ly' => 'Arabic (libya)',
        'ar-ma' => 'Arabic (Morocco)', 'ar-om' => 'Arabic (Oman)', 'ar-qa' =>
        'Arabic (Qatar)', 'ar-sa' => 'Arabic (Saudi Arabia)', 'ar-sy' =>
        'Arabic (Syria)', 'ar-tn' => 'Arabic (Tunisia)', 'ar-ae' => 'Arabic (U.A.E.)',
        'ar-ye' => 'Arabic (Yemen)', 'ar' => 'Arabic', 'hy' => 'Armenian', 'as' =>
        'Assamese', 'az' => 'Azeri', 'eu' => 'Basque', 'be' => 'Belarusian', 'bn' =>
        'Bengali', 'bg' => 'Bulgarian', 'ca' => 'Catalan', 'zh-cn' => 'Chinese (China)',
        'zh-hk' => 'Chinese (Hong Kong SAR)', 'zh-mo' => 'Chinese (Macau SAR)', 'zh-sg' =>
        'Chinese (Singapore)', 'zh-tw' => 'Chinese (Taiwan)', 'zh' => 'Chinese', 'hr' =>
        'Croatian', 'cs' => 'Czech', 'da' => 'Danish', 'div' => 'Divehi', 'nl-be' =>
        'Dutch (Belgium)', 'nl' => 'Dutch (Netherlands)', 'en-au' =>
        'English (Australia)', 'en-bz' => 'English (Belize)', 'en-ca' =>
        'English (Canada)', 'en-ie' => 'English (Ireland)', 'en-jm' =>
        'English (Jamaica)', 'en-nz' => 'English (New Zealand)', 'en-ph' =>
        'English (Philippines)', 'en-za' => 'English (South Africa)', 'en-tt' =>
        'English (Trinidad)', 'en-gb' => 'English (United Kingdom)', 'en-us' =>
        'English (United States)', 'en-zw' => 'English (Zimbabwe)', 'en' => 'English',
        'us' => 'English (United States)', 'et' => 'Estonian', 'fo' => 'Faeroese', 'fa' =>
        'Farsi', 'fi' => 'Finnish', 'fr-be' => 'French (Belgium)', 'fr-ca' =>
        'French (Canada)', 'fr-lu' => 'French (Luxembourg)', 'fr-mc' =>
        'French (Monaco)', 'fr-ch' => 'French (Switzerland)', 'fr' => 'French (France)',
        'mk' => 'FYRO Macedonian', 'gd' => 'Gaelic', 'ka' => 'Georgian', 'de-at' =>
        'German (Austria)', 'de-li' => 'German (Liechtenstein)', 'de-lu' =>
        'German (Luxembourg)', 'de-ch' => 'German (Switzerland)', 'de' =>
        'German (Germany)', 'el' => 'Greek', 'gu' => 'Gujarati', 'he' => 'Hebrew', 'hi' =>
        'Hindi', 'hu' => 'Hungarian', 'is' => 'Icelandic', 'id' => 'Indonesian', 'it-ch' =>
        'Italian (Switzerland)', 'it' => 'Italian (Italy)', 'ja' => 'Japanese', 'kn' =>
        'Kannada', 'kk' => 'Kazakh', 'kok' => 'Konkani', 'ko' => 'Korean', 'kz' =>
        'Kyrgyz', 'lv' => 'Latvian', 'lt' => 'Lithuanian', 'ms' => 'Malay', 'ml' =>
        'Malayalam', 'mt' => 'Maltese', 'mr' => 'Marathi', 'mn' =>
        'Mongolian (Cyrillic)', 'ne' => 'Nepali (India)', 'nb-no' =>
        'Norwegian (Bokmal)', 'nn-no' => 'Norwegian (Nynorsk)', 'no' =>
        'Norwegian (Bokmal)', 'or' => 'Oriya', 'pl' => 'Polish', 'pt-br' =>
        'Portuguese (Brazil)', 'pt' => 'Portuguese (Portugal)', 'pa' => 'Punjabi', 'rm' =>
        'Rhaeto-Romanic', 'ro-md' => 'Romanian (Moldova)', 'ro' => 'Romanian', 'ru-md' =>
        'Russian (Moldova)', 'ru' => 'Russian', 'sa' => 'Sanskrit', 'sr' => 'Serbian',
        'sk' => 'Slovak', 'ls' => 'Slovenian', 'sb' => 'Sorbian', 'es-ar' =>
        'Spanish (Argentina)', 'es-bo' => 'Spanish (Bolivia)', 'es-cl' =>
        'Spanish (Chile)', 'es-co' => 'Spanish (Colombia)', 'es-cr' =>
        'Spanish (Costa Rica)', 'es-do' => 'Spanish (Dominican Republic)', 'es-ec' =>
        'Spanish (Ecuador)', 'es-sv' => 'Spanish (El Salvador)', 'es-gt' =>
        'Spanish (Guatemala)', 'es-hn' => 'Spanish (Honduras)', 'es-mx' =>
        'Spanish (Mexico)', 'es-ni' => 'Spanish (Nicaragua)', 'es-pa' =>
        'Spanish (Panama)', 'es-py' => 'Spanish (Paraguay)', 'es-pe' => 'Spanish (Peru)',
        'es-pr' => 'Spanish (Puerto Rico)', 'es-us' => 'Spanish (United States)',
        'es-uy' => 'Spanish (Uruguay)', 'es-ve' => 'Spanish (Venezuela)', 'es' =>
        'Spanish (Traditional Sort)', 'sx' => 'Sutu', 'sw' => 'Swahili', 'sv-fi' =>
        'Swedish (Finland)', 'sv' => 'Swedish', 'syr' => 'Syriac', 'ta' => 'Tamil', 'tt' =>
        'Tatar', 'te' => 'Telugu', 'th' => 'Thai', 'ts' => 'Tsonga', 'tn' => 'Tswana',
        'tr' => 'Turkish', 'uk' => 'Ukrainian', 'ur' => 'Urdu', 'uz' => 'Uzbek', 'vi' =>
        'Vietnamese', 'xh' => 'Xhosa', 'yi' => 'Yiddish', 'zu' => 'Zulu');

    return $a_languages;
}
?>

[wemustdesign]

Thanks for the reply will try this out now!