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Where are your users from, part 2

February 22, 2010 | 1 Comment

Recently, I wrote about geolocalisation of your users/visitors based on the IP to Country table. After using it for a couple of months, I found it painful to have to regularly update the table (even if some people came up with an automatic work around based on PERL scripts for example).

So, I decided to find another way to solve the problem and gave the GeoIP Apache module by MaxMind a try. The installation is as simple as can be:

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aptitude install libapache2-mod-geoip
a2enmod geoip
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Once the module is setup, you can use the following PHP code to obtain the Country Code (2 letters)

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$countryCode == $_SERVER["GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE"];

Finally, here is a list of country codes and the associated country names.

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That’s it, quick and simple.


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  1. samantha says:
    February 22, 2010 at 5:54 pm

    New blog post: Where are your users from, part 2:
    Recently, I wrote about geolocalisation of your users/visitors … http://bit.ly/9um21T

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