Northern Flame Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Is there a way to match the users IP address to their country? or any other way to tell which country the user is in? I've been looking at the $_SERVER variables but I can't seem to find anything on getting the country. Any help will be greatly appreciated! P.S. I want to get the users country so I can display the websites content in the language of that country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 You can use GeoIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Flame Posted March 8, 2008 Author Share Posted March 8, 2008 alright thanks, im looking at the link right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Flame Posted March 8, 2008 Author Share Posted March 8, 2008 oh well you have to pay for that and I would prefer to make it myself would this work? $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] I just tried it and I got this as a result: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12 so I guess I can just take the en-US part to determine their location and language. but would that work all the time or is it the same string for this browser no matter where your location is? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- oh wait never mind, i just tried this on IE and i get this: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; YPC 3.2.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) and form that I cant see anyway to determine their location or language Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 That won't work. My current user agent is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3, but I'm in Denmark, which is far from USA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Flame Posted March 8, 2008 Author Share Posted March 8, 2008 oh alright, well thanks for the help, ill look into another way of doing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peranha Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Here is one you can look at http://software77.net/geoip-software.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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