Geo targetting help

**DLGx** · 12-30-2006, 04:08 PM

Does anyone have the code needed for geo targetting different ad codes on sites where everything is not run from the root directory?

Only code I've found requires that all your files are the root directory and just produces errors on pages located folders deeper than root.

**dadofgage** · 12-30-2006, 04:50 PM

You might want to check out: http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country

When I used geo ip targeting, I made one include file that was called on every page - that include file did the call to the database to check to see if the IP was a US/non-US based IP and then the results were stored in a session variable.

If that session variable was set, I did not bother doing another call, since their IP was not going to change. If it wasn't then you use the include file.

Does that make sense?

**DLGx** · 12-30-2006, 05:11 PM

I have got the database, it's the code to make the check work that I need. I can't code php from scratch.

All I find is this code and it doesn't work for pages that are not loaded from root because the geoip.inc file won't accept any paths. I'd have to place the geoip.inc and GeoIP.dat files in every folder of the site to make it work (in theory)

Code:

if (isset($_COOKIE["geo"])) {
    $country  = $_COOKIE['geo'];
    } else  {
    include("geoip.inc");
    $gi =  geoip_open("GeoIP.dat",GEOIP_STANDARD);
    $ip =  $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
    $country = geoip_country_code_by_addr($gi,  $ip);
    geoip_close($gi);
    setcookie("geo", $country,  time()+15552000, "/", ".yourdomain.com", 0); //6 month  cookie
  }

Code:

<?php
if ($country == "US")
  echo 'MAIN CODE';
else
  echo 'BACKUP CODE';
?>

**ghoti** · 12-30-2006, 11:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DLGx

All I find is this code and it doesn't work for pages that are not loaded from root because the geoip.inc file won't accept any paths. I'd have to place the geoip.inc and GeoIP.dat files in every folder of your site to make it work (in theory)

If you can't get that to work, you might want to try an alternative method of geo-targeting that I described at http://www.ghoti.ca/2006/11/17/ip-to...-your-traffic/

**DLGx** · 12-31-2006, 01:02 PM

Bit more technical, might try it out.

Wish I could get the simple method to work though.

**ghoti** · 12-31-2006, 09:04 PM

Have you contacted your web host to ask if there's a way you can get the includes to work on their server?

**DLGx** · 01-01-2007, 06:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ghoti

Have you contacted your web host to ask if there's a way you can get the includes to work on their server?

I run unmanaged dedicated servers. The problem is with the script which just produces errors unless everything is in the same directory.

**ghoti** · 01-01-2007, 11:09 AM

If it's your own server, then you should be able to change the open_basedir settings for PHP. That's probably what's causing the errors.

**DLGx** · 01-01-2007, 06:29 PM

That was not it

Quote:

Originally Posted by ghoti

If it's your own server, then you should be able to change the open_basedir settings for PHP. That's probably what's causing the errors.

**DLGx** · 01-01-2007, 06:59 PM

Think I solved it now... :thumbup: