Only let page element display to certain countries

[imperium2335]

Hi,

 

How would I get ads to display to all countries except for the two I want blocked? I know you can block with .htaccess but this is more about including a file (the html with the ads) if the user is not from "banned country x || y". I've got all the IP combinations for the two countries i want to block.

 

What are your thoughts?

 

Much appreciated!

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<?php
   1.
      function countryCityFromIP($ipAddr)
   2.
      {
   3.
      //function to find country and city from IP address
   4.
      //Developed by Roshan Bhattarai [url]http://roshanbh.com.np[/url]
   5.
       
   6.
      //verify the IP address for the
   7.
      ip2long($ipAddr)== -1 || ip2long($ipAddr) === false ? trigger_error("Invalid IP", E_USER_ERROR) : "";
   8.
      $ipDetail=array(); //initialize a blank array
   9.
       
  10.
      //get the XML result from hostip.info
  11.
      $xml = file_get_contents("http://api.hostip.info/?ip=".$ipAddr);
  12.
       
  13.
      //get the city name inside the node <gml:name> and </gml:name>
  14.
      preg_match("@<Hostip>(\s)*<gml:name>(.*?)</gml:name>@si",$xml,$match);
  15.
       
  16.
      //assing the city name to the array
  17.
      $ipDetail['city']=$match[2];
  18.
       
  19.
      //get the country name inside the node <countryName> and </countryName>
  20.
      preg_match("@<countryName>(.*?)</countryName>@si",$xml,$matches);
  21.
       
  22.
      //assign the country name to the $ipDetail array
  23.
      $ipDetail['country']=$matches[1];
  24.
       
  25.
      //get the country name inside the node <countryName> and </countryName>
  26.
      preg_match("@<countryAbbrev>(.*?)</countryAbbrev>@si",$xml,$cc_match);
  27.
      $ipDetail['country_code']=$cc_match[1]; //assing the country code to array
  28.
       
  29.
      //return the array containing city, country and country code
  30.
      return $ipDetail;
  31.
       
  32.
      }
?>

[imperium2335]

Just out of interest, I see your retrieving data from another site. Is it possible to do the same sort of thing for PageRank? E.g. a bit of code that can retrieve the page rank of a given url?

 

Cheers.