Re: Finding a visitor's location
| From: | Colin Guthrie | Date: | Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:30:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Finding a visitor's location | ||
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John Messam wrote:
> Hello, I am trying to find out the country and possibly the city where the
> visitors to my site are coming from. I can capture the IP address but how
> do I translate that to a specific locale. Is there a way to do it or do I
> have to ask them and map the info myself. Thank you for you help. This list
> is a very useful tool.
There are webservice based solutions for this.
Look around for the GeoIP firefox extension and I think there is a
Joomla extension that would probably give some PHP examples.
Col.