How do I know which country my visitor is from?

Hi,

I want to display the selling price of my product, according to
the user's country. For example,

USA/Canada - USD
Europe - Euro
UK - GBP
Australia - AUD

and so forth, any ideas how this can be achieved with php?

 

the visitor's ip address should tell you where they are from

 

use

$countries = array(
'uk' => 'GBP',
'us' => 'USD',
'com' => USD,
'au' => 'AUD');

$hostname = gethostbyaddr($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
preg_match('/\.([^\.]+)$/',$hostname,$out);
$tld = $out[1];

echo $countries[$tld];

PHP:

That should work for the majority, although it's not an exact science. Add the tld to the countries list along with the currency type (you can extend the array to hold different info too, this was just an example)

 

I think he might need a IP adresses database?

 

Thanks Jay6390, but i believe I am looking for what ammoun said. I need exact location based on the visitor's IP. Is this something that is quite complex or some readymade solutions are available?

 

What about something like this
http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/54660.html

In fact, I think what you would be better using is
http://www.hostip.info/use.html

 

You need a ip2country database

 

Hi,

There is a PHP module that can be installed that'll do just that, it will tell you exactly what country an IP address is located in.

http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/ref.geoip.php

Regards,

Steve

 

Thanks Jay and Steve, I think I have got the solution. Enjoy some green. Both of you

 

You can try this
http://code.google.com/p/php-ip-2-country/

Little John