Serving different content to users from different geographic regions

[fcmisc]

Hi,

The Amazon Associate feature of only serving up ads to a particular country is hindering my sales.

Using PHP, how can I detect a user's country, and therefore serve them different Amazon ads?

Thanks,

fcmisc.

[frankcow]

I believe you need to use ip2location, or geoip

[sketch]

Both of which will cost you money... there's is no function in any programming language (that I know of) that can tell you where an IP is geographically located.

[frankcow]

not necessarily. You can download the ip2location database for free, if you're technically capable of programming your own code for using that data

[mad4]

There are several services to find the location of an IP address.

http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country
http://software77.net/cgi-bin/ip-country/geo-ip.pl
http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/
http://www.ip2location.com/free.asp

Once you know the location just do
if($location=="US"){
echo"US content";
}
elseif($location=="UK"){
echo"UK content";
}.....................