CloudFlare IP Geolocation - elseif help

[essypowers]

Hi Guys... new to php... just signed up for CloudFlare and trying to use IP Geolocation

 

any help would be appreciated... the goal is for the selected countries to show maintenance message. Otherwise show the content of the page

this is what I have but its not working...

 

<?php

$country_code = $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY"];

if ($country_code=="FR") {
echo "Site Under Maintenance";
}

elseif ($country_code=="UK") {
echo "Site Under Maintenance";
}

elseif ($country_code=="US") {
echo "Site Under Maintenance";
}

 

else {

}

 

?>

 

Thanks in advance

[QuickOldCar]

This should work fine

 

 

<?php
$country_code = $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY"];
$message = "Site Under Maintenance";
 
if ($country_code == "FR") {
echo $message;
}elseif ($country_code == "UK") {
echo $message;
}elseif ($country_code == "US") {
echo $message;
}else {
//place your code this area to show it
 
 
}
?>

[mac_gyver]

what debugging have you done? does $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY"] exist and contains a value you expect?

 

and rather than to write out a series of conditional statements to test if a variable is one of several possible values, it's best to make an array of the expected values and use in_array() to test if a variable is one of the values in the array.

Edited March 30, 2014 by mac_gyver

[essypowers]

Thanks for the reply guys...

 

This should work fine

<?php
$country_code = $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY"];
$message = "Site Under Maintenance";
 
if ($country_code == "FR") {
echo $message;
}elseif ($country_code == "UK") {
echo $message;
}elseif ($country_code == "US") {
echo $message;
}else {
//place your code this area to show it
 
 
}
?>

 

@QuickOldCar

 

This was great... I am seeing few issues

 

When i use one IF statement... the message displays

 

<?php
$country_code = $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY"];
$message = "Site Under Maintenance";
 
if ($country_code == "US") {
echo $message;
}else {
 
}
?>

 

But when I introduce the ELSEIF s the message no longer appears...

 

 

what debugging have you done? does $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY"] exist and contains a value you expect?

 

and rather than to write out a series of conditional statements to test if a variable is one of several possible values, it's best to make an array of the expected values and use in_array() to test if a variable is one of the values in the array.

 

@mac_gyver

 

I ran

 

$country_code = $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY"];

echo "Country code is " . $country_code;

 

and got the expected results, also as mentioned above one IF statement works like a charm

 

----

[QuickOldCar]

No idea why that if/else doesn't work, try as mac_gyver suggested using a check in an array

 

 

<?php
$country_code = $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY"];
$not_allowed = array("FR","UK","US");
 
if (in_array($country_code, $not_allowed)) {
echo "Site Under Maintenance";
} else {
//place your code this area to show it
 
 
}
?>

[essypowers]

 

No idea why that if/else doesn't work, try as mac_gyver suggested using a check in an array

<?php
$country_code = $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY"];
$not_allowed = array("FR","UK","US");
 
if (in_array($country_code, $not_allowed)) {
echo "Site Under Maintenance";
} else {
//place your code this area to show it
 
 
}
?>

 

Guys thank you... the arry approach works perfectly

 

 

@QuickOldCar - Puttig the HTML content in the final else container throws all kinds of syntax errors

 

I am wondering is there is function that we can use to stop the scripy if the first IF statement is called... and if nothing is returned load the page...

 

Thanks

 

 

 

One last question... when i put the HTML code

[QuickOldCar]

Ok, you need to know how and when to escape in and out of php to html.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.phpmode.php

 

If is within php you need to echo and properly wrap in quotes

 

You can also just break out of php and then back in like so

 

 

<?php
$country_code = $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY"];
$not_allowed = array("FR","UK","US");
 
if (in_array($country_code, $not_allowed)) {
echo "Site Under Maintenance";
} else { ?>

<html>
<body>
</body>
</html>
 
<?php } ?>

[xtrimsky]

Please note: the country code "UK" doesn't work with Cloudflare, it has to be "GB".