IP Based Image

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12-27-2012, 09:40 AM
oo7ml

IP Based Image

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...
12-27-2012, 11:45 AM
firesnaker

From Google and Stack Overflow

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/3...dress-with-php
12-27-2012, 02:11 PM
eval(BadCode)

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

PHP Code:

<html> <body> <?php $country_name = apache_note("GEOIP_COUNTRY_NAME"); print "Country: " . $country_name; ?> </body> </html>

It worked like a charm for me.

Country: United States

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