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Dec 27.2012

Hi, i have a banner area on my website where i would like to display an image. I would like to display a different image in the banner area, depending on a users’ location.

I have 4 different images:

01 – usa_banner.jpg (default)
02 – europe_banner.jpg
03 – uk_banner.jpg
04 – australia_banner.jpg

If a user views the site from a country outside of the top 4 areas, then i would like to display the default usa_banner.jpg image.

I have created my site using codeigniter. What is the best way to work out the IP ranges etc. Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance…

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@firesnakerDec 27.2012 — I searched your query on Google and found a great Stack Overflow thread. In summary here is the solutions:

You can use APIs:

Hostinfo API:

http://www.hostip.info/use.html

Or you can use a local database on your server, it does need to be updated regularly though.

http://phpweby.com/software/ip2country

If you have money, you can use the Maxmind GeoAPI built-in to your PHP server.

http://php.net/manual/en/book.geoip.php

You want to check the original stack overflow thread here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3650006/get-country-of-ip-address-with-php
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@eval_BadCode_Dec 27.2012 — You shouldn't use an API when you already have existing data on your machine to do this.

/usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat

you can use apache2's mod_geoip (apt-get install apache2-mod-geoip or yum install mod_geoip.x86_64)

then, restart apache2. and now

nano /var/www/html/geoiptest.php
[code=php]
<html>
<body>
<?php
$country_name = apache_note("GEOIP_COUNTRY_NAME");
print "Country: " . $country_name;
?>
</body>
</html>
[/code]

It worked like a charm for me.

Country: United States
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