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1. sylaan
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hello all,

   I am currently using the Language Switcher plugin to provide 2 language versions of my blog, one is http://www.nektulos.de/lang/en/ the other is http://www.nektulos.de/lang/ro/.

   The plugin has some automated redirection mechanisms based on previous user choices and browser language but I need to do the redirect based on IP address. If people come from Romania, I need to provide the /lang/ro/ version, if not, then the /lang/en/ one.

   I know which function of that plugin does the redirection but I don't really know how to implement it based on IP address (i.e. country). Any idea how I could go about it ?

   Any info is appreciated.

   Best regards,
   Stefan

2. sylaan
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Anyone ? ;-)

3. sylaan
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I can't believe nobody tried to do this before ...

4. DontRetail
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I was looking for the same thing. I have found this: http://www.ip2nation.com/ip2nation/Sample_Scripts

   <?php

   $server = ''; // MySQL hostname
   $username = ''; // MySQL username
   $password = ''; // MySQL password
   $dbname = ''; // MySQL db name

   $db = mysql_connect($server, $username, $password) or die(mysql_error());
   mysql_select_db($dbname) or die(mysql_error());

   $sql = 'SELECT
   country
   FROM
   ip2nation
   WHERE
   ip < INET_ATON("'.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].'")
   ORDER BY
   ip DESC
   LIMIT 0,1';

   list($country) = mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query($sql));

   switch ($country) {
   case 'se':
   // Get the swedish to a swedish newssite
   header('Location: http://www.thelocal.se/');
   exit;
   case 'us':
   // And let the folks from american go to CNN
   header('Location: http://www.cnn.com/');
   exit;
   default:
   // The rest can go to BBC
   header('Location: http://www.bbc.co.uk/');
   exit;
   }

   ?>

5. leihla
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hey sylaan,

   I also want to target users by their location. I wonder if you were able do it?
   Thank you

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