Country specific pages

Anon

I'm looking for a way of including country specific content into a website...but can't work out how to determine the user's country of origin.

I'm sure there must be a way of doing this in PHP - and I'm sure it's so obvious that I'm missing it, but can anybody help?

...And before you suggest using cookies or PERL as a way around this, it's not an option.

Any ideas?

ame12

No fool-proof way of doing this AFAIK. You can look at the large corporate web sites (ing.com or pg.com) to see how they do it... they let users pick the country perspective they would like to view the site from.

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Anon

Hmm...img.com just gives me a series of javascript errors. pg.com seems to be using some server-side javascript.

I think www.altavista.com and www.lycos.com are doing what I want to do, because whenever I go to those URLs I\'m immediately redirected to my country-specific version (uk.altavista.com or www.lycos.co.uk).

However I can\'t view the source of either of those pages.

Any other ideas?

I can obviously find the IP addresses of visitors, so could there be a way of resolving those to at least isolate a country code or TLD?

kparker

Is it country, or language, that you are concerned about? If the latter, check out the article here:

  http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/didimo20010214.php3

If the former, you have a bit more thinking about what it is that altavista et al are doing. Just for starters, what if you did want to visit the non-uk version? If they're automatically transporting you somewhere else, how do you get them to stop?

As far as using the IP, that's pretty iffy. To see why, just go to ARIN.NET and pick any old random class-B size block and see what a crazy quilt of countries showed up. I just did this now for 192.100, and I got sucessive registrants from ZA, KR, US, FR, AT, AU, GB, NZ, US, GB, NO, US.

Anon

As the link you provided does allow the use of country specific language variants (like en-US) that might work - Assuming that users have their browsers set up correctly.

But it was country I was interested in more, because the shopping parts of the site are regionalised: Europe, North America, Australia/Japan.

I suspect that using language would get a lot of visitors in Australia and the UK going to the North American version because their browsers were set to en-US by default.

The other area I was thinking of using this was for banner ads, so that different countries got different ads.