GeoIP locator add-on tools ... ?

[dbee]

Does anyone know any tools/plugins for the free geoip service that
would enable me to show country flags instead of just text ?

Or even better - that would enable me to output the values on a map ?

Can't find anything myself at the moment. I did manage to find a list
of flags though, so if there is nothing pre-rolled out there I can hack
away on it myself. Geoip has been around for so long that I can't
imagine that no-one has already built add-ons ...

[Erwin Moller]

Re: GeoIP locator add-on tools ... ?

dbee wrote:
[color=blue]
> Does anyone know any tools/plugins for the free geoip service that
> would enable me to show country flags instead of just text ?
>
> Or even better - that would enable me to output the values on a map ?
>
> Can't find anything myself at the moment. I did manage to find a list
> of flags though, so if there is nothing pre-rolled out there I can hack
> away on it myself. Geoip has been around for so long that I can't
> imagine that no-one has already built add-ons ...[/color]

Hi,

Did you check this?

http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country

It is an opensource solution. They claim it is less accurate then their
other solution (for which you may pay).

They say they have api's for:
* C Library
* Perl Module
* PHP Module
* Apache Module (mod_geoip)
* Java Class
* Python Class
* C# Class
* Ruby Module
* MS COM Object (includes sample ASP, ColdFusion, Pascal, PHP, Perl,
Python, and Visual Basic code)
* VB.NET
* Pascal

Take your pick. :P

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[dbee]

Re: GeoIP locator add-on tools ... ?


Erwin Moller wrote:[color=blue]
> dbee wrote:
>[color=green]
> > Does anyone know any tools/plugins for the free geoip service that
> > would enable me to show country flags instead of just text ?
> >
> > Or even better - that would enable me to output the values on a map ?
> >
> > Can't find anything myself at the moment. I did manage to find a list
> > of flags though, so if there is nothing pre-rolled out there I can hack
> > away on it myself. Geoip has been around for so long that I can't
> > imagine that no-one has already built add-ons ...[/color]
>
> Hi,
>
> Did you check this?
> http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country
>
> It is an opensource solution. They claim it is less accurate then their
> other solution (for which you may pay).
>
> They say they have api's for:
> * C Library
> * Perl Module
> * PHP Module
> * Apache Module (mod_geoip)
> * Java Class
> * Python Class
> * C# Class
> * Ruby Module
> * MS COM Object (includes sample ASP, ColdFusion, Pascal, PHP, Perl,
> Python, and Visual Basic code)
> * VB.NET
> * Pascal
>
> Take your pick. :P
>
> Regards,
> Erwin Moller[/color]

Hi Erwin,

Thanks. That was the bit I have installed already actually. It works
well and gives me a text descriptor of the IP's likely address.

But what I was wondering was whether anyone had built an add-on, that
would output points on a map or country flags instead of just text ?

Cheers,

dbee

[Erwin Moller]

Re: GeoIP locator add-on tools ... ?

dbee wrote:
[color=blue]
>
> Erwin Moller wrote:[color=green]
>> dbee wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>> > Does anyone know any tools/plugins for the free geoip service that
>> > would enable me to show country flags instead of just text ?
>> >
>> > Or even better - that would enable me to output the values on a map ?
>> >
>> > Can't find anything myself at the moment. I did manage to find a list
>> > of flags though, so if there is nothing pre-rolled out there I can hack
>> > away on it myself. Geoip has been around for so long that I can't
>> > imagine that no-one has already built add-ons ...[/color]
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Did you check this?
>> http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country
>>
>> It is an opensource solution. They claim it is less accurate then their
>> other solution (for which you may pay).
>>
>> They say they have api's for:
>> * C Library
>> * Perl Module
>> * PHP Module
>> * Apache Module (mod_geoip)
>> * Java Class
>> * Python Class
>> * C# Class
>> * Ruby Module
>> * MS COM Object (includes sample ASP, ColdFusion, Pascal, PHP, Perl,
>> Python, and Visual Basic code)
>> * VB.NET
>> * Pascal
>>
>> Take your pick. :P
>>
>> Regards,
>> Erwin Moller[/color]
>
> Hi Erwin,
>
> Thanks. That was the bit I have installed already actually. It works
> well and gives me a text descriptor of the IP's likely address.
>
> But what I was wondering was whether anyone had built an add-on, that
> would output points on a map or country flags instead of just text ?[/color]

Ah, yes, you wrote that indeed. :P
Me sloppy. Sorry.

Well, I do not know.
I think renaming all your flags to the textoutput is not that much work.
so if output is netherlands, you point to netherlands.gif .

But you probably thought of that solution too. :-)

I would just rename all flags. Probably faster done than searching for
software that performs the action.

Steal here. ;-)

http://www.photius.com/flags/alphabetic_list.html

Regards,
Erwin Moller[color=blue]
>
> Cheers,
>
> dbee[/color]

[Juan José Gutiérrez de QuevedoPérez]

Re: GeoIP locator add-on tools ... ?

El 21 Feb 2006 02:48:00 -0800
dbee escribió:
[color=blue]
> But what I was wondering was whether anyone had built an add-on, that
> would output points on a map or country flags instead of just text ?[/color]

bbclone(http://bbclone.de/) uses for the same purpouses a kind of
database called ip2ext(you can download it separately from their
website) that basically translates from an ip to a country, and it's
working very well, but that database needs to be updated regularly.

It shouldn't be very difficult to adapt it for your own proyect. Just
as a quick tip, there's a function called

bbc_get_extensi on($host, $addr)

that will return the extension for that host/ip. So if you call it like
this:

$ext=bbc_get_ex tension('blbalb la.com','217.12 7.67.100');
echo $ext

should print "es"(spain)

of course, I've just made a quick grep, so I could be completely wrong,
but I think it shouldn't be much more work than that.

they also have a huge collection of flags(bbclone is a webstat system),
that I think you can use in /images directory called ext_$extension. png
so following the previous example you could use:

echo "<img src=\"images/ext_$ext.png\" />";

to display the flag of the country.

hope that helps

--
Juan José Gutiérrez de Quevedo
Director Técnico (juanjo@iteisa. com)
ITEISA (http://www.iteisa.com)
942544036 - 637447953

[Joker7]

Re: GeoIP locator add-on tools ... ?


"dbee" <daraburke78@gm ail.com> wrote in message
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: Does anyone know any tools/plugins for the free geoip service that
: would enable me to show country flags instead of just text ?
:
: Or even better - that would enable me to output the values on a map ?
:
: Can't find anything myself at the moment. I did manage to find a list
: of flags though, so if there is nothing pre-rolled out there I can hack
: away on it myself. Geoip has been around for so long that I can't
: imagine that no-one has already built add-ons ...
:

Have a look at IP2COUNTRY V2 .

Chris

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