Script to determine if my visitors are in US

[divine]

Hi

I joined copeac and other CPA networks. Many of the good CPLs programs are available only for US residents.

My websites receives traffic from all countries. Is there any easy solution, so that I am able to show the banner only to my US visitors (and not to other countries)?

Cheers!

 

[Stanley]

two words: geoip maxmind

 

[Icecube]

you can serve your ads through Openads - Home that can be easily integrated with the free maxmind IP-> Country database MaxMind - GeoLite Country | Open Source IP Address to Country Database

 

[am1r]

Get the Maxmind database (the free one) and grab the geoip.inc file then write something like the following. In the $ads variable just put the javascript or HTML provided by Copeac or whoever. You can then reference it in your template or just echo it later as required. Works well enough. The default case is for the ad that gets displayed when the user is not from, in this case, the UK, US or Australia.

include('geoip.inc'); // include the geoip functions
$geofile = geoip_open("GeoIP.dat",GEOIP_STANDARD);
$cn= geoip_country_name_by_addr($geofile, $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);

switch ($cn) {
case "United Kingdom": {
$ads="";
break;
}
case "United States": {
$ads="";
break;
}
case "Australia": {
$ads="";
break;
}
case default: {
$ads="";
break;
}
}

geoip_close($geofile);

 

[bmurph]

Amir, you beat me to it! But I wouldn't have posted the code like you did... I guess I'm not as altruistic!
+Rep for you!

 

[divine]

Get the Maxmind database (the free one) and grab the geoip.inc file then write something like the following. In the $ads variable just put the javascript or HTML provided by Copeac or whoever. You can then reference it in your template or just echo it later as required. Works well enough. The default case is for the ad that gets displayed when the user is not from, in this case, the UK, US or Australia.

include('geoip.inc'); // include the geoip functions
$geofile = geoip_open("GeoIP.dat",GEOIP_STANDARD);
$cn= geoip_country_name_by_addr($geofile, $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);

switch ($cn) {
case "United Kingdom": {
$ads="";
break;
}
case "United States": {
$ads="";
break;
}
case "Australia": {
$ads="";
break;
}
default: {
$ads="";
break;
}
}

geoip_close($geofile);

Works like a charm. In case anyone else uses the above code, don't write "case" with "default".

Cheers!!!

 

[StrangeProgress]

I wrote up a step by step guide on setting up an open source geotargeting ad server a while back

http://www.wickedfire.com/design-de...u-want-setup-geotargeting-ad-server-free.html