A Neat Trick for Clickbank Sellers - Autofill the Country Field

This is for people selling their own products on Clickbank, not for resellers of someone else's product as an affiliate.

I noticed that my Clickbank payment page auto-detected my country (Australia) for the currency, but not for the location field. I couldn't see any way of changing this inside clickbank, but I noticed there is an option to pass an explicit country to the page as a form variable.

So I did a google search and found a PHP script to detect the viewers country from their IP.

This is the code, it will work if you have a PHP sales page (like I did), or if you have a straight HTML page just rename as .php (assuming PHP is enabled on your web host).

                     
<?php 

function countryCityFromIP($ipAddr)
{
//function to find <strong class="highlight">country</strong> and city from <strong class="highlight">IP</strong> <strong class="highlight">address</strong>
//Developed by Roshan Bhattarai htp://roshanbh.com.np

//verify the <strong class="highlight">IP</strong> <strong class="highlight">address</strong> for the
ip2long($ipAddr)== -1 || ip2long($ipAddr) === false ? trigger_error("Invalid IP", E_USER_ERROR) : "";
$ipDetail=array(); //initialize a blank array

//get the XML result from hostip.info
$xml = file_get_contents("htp://api.hostip.info/?ip=".$ipAddr);

//get the city name inside the node <gml:name> and </gml:name>
preg_match("@<Hostip>(\s)*<gml:name>(.*?)</gml:name>@si",$xml,$match);

//assing the city name to the array
$ipDetail['city']=$match[2]; 

//get the <strong class="highlight">country</strong> name inside the node <countryName> and </countryName>
preg_match("@<countryName>(.*?)</countryName>@si",$xml,$matches);

//assign the <strong class="highlight">country</strong> name to the $ipDetail array
$ipDetail['country']=$matches[1];

//get the <strong class="highlight">country</strong> name inside the node <countryName> and </countryName>
preg_match("@<countryAbbrev>(.*?)</countryAbbrev>@si",$xml,$cc_match);
$ipDetail['country_code']=$cc_match[1]; //assing the <strong class="highlight">country</strong> code to array

//return the array containing city, <strong class="highlight">country</strong> and <strong class="highlight">country</strong> code
return $ipDetail;
}

$ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; 

$country_array =  countryCityFromIP($ip);

// var_dump ($country_array);
// echo ('</p><p>' . $country_array["country_code"]);

?>              
                            
 

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Then in the form that directs to CB,

 <input type="hidden" name="country" value="<?php echo $country_array["country_code"]; ?>">

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Or, if you are using a straight hyperlink (rather than a FORM ACTION= to direct to CB), then instead of the above <input> field, you can append the country value right onto the url with

<A HREF="htp://1.yournickname.pay.clickbank.net/?country=<?php echo $country_array["country_code"]; ?> ">

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A nice touch for the buyer, for only 5 mins of effort

IMPORTANT NOTE - i renamed all the occurrences of http to htp since I cant post live links yet, you need to change htp to http in three places above for the script to work