Deliver php include based on IP?

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  1. #1
    I'm looking to deliver ads based on whether the user's country is:

    1. USA
    2. UK
    3. Anything else

    I wondered if it's possible to use a PHP script to deliver one of 3 includes files based on the visitor's IP?

    Many thanks for any replies.
     
    I. Brian, Apr 16, 2006 IP
  2. onlyican.com

    onlyican.com Peon

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    You would need to get a list of IP2Countries

    Then owrk from that
     
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  3. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Do you already have a geotargetting database?
     
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  4. I. Brian

    I. Brian Business consultant

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    Not yet - starting from scratch on this. :)

    ADDED: ust been suggested I look at something like phpadsnew, which apparently has this already set up. Will play7 around with it. :)
     
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    Lordo Well-Known Member

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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Well once you know the country (via geotargetting database), the include part is cake. For example maybe you have the user's country set as a variable of $country thanks to geotargetting. You can have an include within logic, so it could work like so:

    switch ($country) {
case 'USA':
	include ('usa_file.php');
	break;
case 'UK':
	include ('uk_file.php');
	break;
default:
	include ('all_others_file.php');
}
    PHP:
     
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  7. I. Brian

    I. Brian Business consultant

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    That's great - many thanks for that. :)
     
    I. Brian, Apr 18, 2006 IP
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    quaffapint Active Member

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    Just in case you're interested I am looking for testers for a new GeoTargeting ad management script I created, as shown in this post...

    http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=75962

    ...It's not meant to compete with PHPAdsNew, but instead be much simpler and provide some basic features like GeoTargeting.

    -Matt
     
    quaffapint, Apr 18, 2006 IP