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Posted by Nicole on 10/25/05 01:22
Hiya
As I said its a simple solution that needed. I wont be supporting all
countries, only the English speaking countries that I choose in the future
to do marketing in.
So small countries are not an issue, neither are countries such as china
etc.
I am trying to implement the idea, but cant seem to get my function executed
from the hyper link :(
N
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> Nicole wrote:
>
>
>> Hi
>
>> I need to be able to change the currency and some form fields displayed
>> on
>> my website depending on where the visitor is based. I don't need a
>> fully
>> functional cart, just a kinda either display '$10' or '£7' sort of
>> thing!
>
>
> I think the right way to do that would be using the GeoIP PHP API:
>
> http://www.maxmind.com/app/php
>
> This way you don't have to ask, just give them the custom layout based on
> their IP Address. Not without its limitations, but think about
> human-induced error factor: it is highly unlikely that you will get an
> honest answer from a visitor coming from Russia, India, China or any other
> place that online retailers don't like much. They know for the fact that
> they will be treated badly and maybe even denied access to the site, so
> why bother answering this question honestly? It's so easy to just pick
> U.S.A. from the list you've provided.
>
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