Detect country (UK)

[stinkybee]

Does anyone know if there is a way to detect whether a user is from the UK. I have considered using an IP to Location database but the one I have found is too large for my webspace.

A cut down version of the database that only has UK values would be good.

I am basically trying to detect whether a user is from the UK so I can deliver UK specific content.

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[foxbox]

Search for a free webservice. Eg:

http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=207.46.197.32

 

[vicvirk]

Or use the IP2Location database and remove any IP addresses that are not in the UK.

Run your IP check against the cut down version and if there is not a match then they are not from the UK.

We did this once when we wanted to find users from China or The States - the db was huge so we just deleted any IP address that did not belong to either of those two countries and cut it down substantially.


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