Comments on: Geo-Targeting PHP Script

By: Eric Nagel

Eric Nagel — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 01:19:12 +0000

Unfortunately, it’s not my script that reads the database, it’s from Maxmind.com.

Looking at that fips file, you’d have to loop through it and find the M9 line, then pull from that “Staffordshire”. The better way would be to store that in a database, so you can access it quicker. The “fips 10-4 region code” to “name” relationship is 1:1

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:22:32 +0000

ok thanks…
I’ve checked the fips dat file from maxmind and by comparing it to the results I get from your script I can see that
Example Data Results from your script
[country_code] => GB
[region] => M9
matches correctly with the fips data file
GB,M9,”Staffordshire”
Any idea how I could get this to display
I’m sure alot of your visitors would be interested as it allows for state/county anywhere not just UK

Thanks

By: Eric Nagel

Eric Nagel — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:23:06 +0000

That may be it, Steve. My scripts use the “GeoLite City” database, so that’s all I’m familiar with.

By: Eric Nagel

Eric Nagel — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:20:34 +0000

Your open should be before the loop, and close after the loop. The only call within the loop is
$rsGeoData = geoip_record_by_addr($gi, $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);

(plus whatever you’re going to do with that data)

By: hitman

hitman — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:07:14 +0000

is geoip_close necessary?

i have it in a foreach loop then use flush at the end.

any issues with not using geoip_close?

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:54:57 +0000

No, that is the problem! can’t find out how to integrate the Subcountry info into the output
Should I simply replace the subcountry codes with the main .dat file?

By: Eric Nagel

Eric Nagel — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:45:20 +0000

When you do a print_r($rsGeoData); do you see Subcountry info?

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:23:41 +0000

Great Script! I wanted to take it one stage further so that I can display the Subcountry codes but can’t seem to work it out!
Here is the info on MaxMind – http://www.maxmind.com/app/fips10_4
But can’t get it to work with your script… any ideas?

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By: Anny

Anny — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:17:04 +0000

Thank you for such useful information…