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

It's verry simple: You can look at the dns entry for this ip and see the country. If the dns is not relevant, make him(the client) to choose the country or the region where he belongs. Maybe this isn't enough but it's an indea... :) Razvan Stefen Lars wrote: > 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