Re: Correlation between visitor's physical location and IP address

forget it! think of the anonymous proxies out there! You won't find out, where the user lives! You may take a look at http://www.multiproxy.org/anon_list.htm michael > Hello all > > I am currently working on a project where prices in 2 currencies must be > > displayed on a web site. Web visitors from Europe should be shown the > price > in Euro and those outside Europe should be shown the price in US > Dollars. > > Due to a whole list of 'political' problems, the European customers > should > not be able to see the USD prices and the non-EU customers should not be > > able to see the USD prices. I know that sucks, but that is the way it > is. I > cannot change it, unfortunately. > > All price data is stored in a mySQL database and PHP4 is to be used to > get > this data into the HTML. ;-) > > The question is: > > How can one ascertain the physical location of a web visitors' computer > when > he/she comes to the web site? > > Is there a correlation between IP addresses and countries? If there is, > where can one find a table illustrating this information? > > Has anyone attempted something like this? > > Two examples come to mind where a similar solution is in operation: > > 1. www.altavista.com : when I go to www.altavista.com I sometimes get a > pop > up window in German telling me that there also exists Altavista in > German. > The message is in German. Some how Altavista knows that I am in Germany. > > 2. www.imdb.com : when I look at the details of any movie, I see a link > to > amazon.de to buy that movie. I can hardly think that anyone outside > Germany > would get that link. > > Somehow these two sites 'know' where I am physically located. Now, how > do > they do that? > > If anyone can help me, I would LOVE to here from you! > > /S > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at > http://www.hotmail.com. > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net