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need to include one file or another based on visitor country

Answer 1

A:

Get the visitor's IP
Map the IP to its location
Do a conditional include based on the location

codaddict 2010-04-22 02:09:39

if in neither of these countries the default content will apply but its not so likely anyone else will find the site really, its a indian church with office in those 3 countries

rowan 2010-04-22 02:54:38

thanks, im a newb can you help me with this?

rowan 2010-04-22 02:57:38

Answer 2

+1 A:

It's pretty easy to use Google's AJAX API loader to get a rough estimate of the user's location. Roughly:

<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
<script type="text/javascript">

// Note that you should have some sanity checks here, and maybe use an onLoad
// event of some kind
alert(google.loader.ClientLocation.address.country);

</script>

You could have the user start at a page that would then use JavaScript to redirect them to the appropriate location. If you're using any popular JavaScript libraries, you may already be using this loader (and if not, you should consider loading your libraries through it).

http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/documentation/#ClientLocation

awgy 2010-04-22 02:17:10

thanks, how do i then use that to 'if' an include?

rowan 2010-04-22 02:56:03

Test the country value and use that to redirect the browser to the appropriate location. Like Frank Farmer said, though, you should consider giving the user some way to override the automatic choice.

awgy 2010-04-22 13:01:58

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