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Using IP address to determine language of welcome message upon login?
I'm currently using wordpress on my site, and I have the "Sidebar Login" plugin activated so that users can login without having to navigate away from the actual site into the "wp-admin" area.
I have figured out a way to display "random" welcome messages to users when they login. These messages range from slang terms in english, to all kinds of different "hellos" in other languages. What I would LIKE to do is to somehow determine what country a user is visiting from by sniffing the IP address, then using that information to display a welcome message which corresponds to their native language.
Is this possible?
Keep in mind that I have absolutely no idea as to how to "sniff" an IP address, nor would I have any clue as to how to determine which country that particular IP is coming from.
I've included the entire sidebar-login plugin php file so that you can get an idea as to what the code looks like.
I have figured out a way to display "random" welcome messages to users when they login. These messages range from slang terms in english, to all kinds of different "hellos" in other languages. What I would LIKE to do is to somehow determine what country a user is visiting from by sniffing the IP address, then using that information to display a welcome message which corresponds to their native language.
Is this possible?
Keep in mind that I have absolutely no idea as to how to "sniff" an IP address, nor would I have any clue as to how to determine which country that particular IP is coming from.
I've included the entire sidebar-login plugin php file so that you can get an idea as to what the code looks like.
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Sidebar Login
Plugin URI: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sidebar-login/
Description: Adds a sidebar widget to let users login
Version: 2.1.2
Author: Mike Jolley
Author URI: http://blue-anvil.com
*/
function sidebarlogin() {
$args["before_widget"]="";
$args["after_widget"]="";
$args["before_title"]="<h2 class=\"lightgray\">";
$args["before_name"]="<span class=\"lightblue\">";
$args["after_name"]="</span>";
$args["after_title"]="</h2>";
widget_sidebarlogin($args);
}
function widget_sidebarlogin($args) {
extract($args);
global $user_ID;
if (isset($user_ID)) {
// User is logged in
//Begin random greetings when logged in
$greets[] = 'Hello ';
$greets[] = 'Welcome ';
$greets[] = 'Howdy ';
$greets[] = 'Bonjour ';
$greets[] = 'Bueno ';
$greets[] = 'Salut ';
$greets[] = 'mArHAbAn ';
$greets[] = 'Salam ';
$greets[] = 'Konnichi Wa ';
$greets[] = 'Shwmae ';
$greets[] = 'Pryvit ';
$greets[] = 'Guten Tag ';
$greets[] = 'Your name is ';
$greets[] = 'Howdy doo ';
$greets[] = 'Ello ello ello ';
srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000);
$random_number = rand(0,count($greets)-1);
//End random greetings when logged in
$user_info = get_userdata($user_ID);
echo $before_widget . $before_title . __($greets[$random_number]) . $before_name . $user_info->user_login . $after_name . __("!") . $after_title;
echo '<ul class="pagenav">
<li class="page_item"><a href="'.get_bloginfo('wpurl').'/wp-admin/">'.__('Dashboard').'</a></li>
<li class="page_item"><a href="'.get_bloginfo('wpurl').'/wp-admin/profile.php">'.__('Your Profile').'</a></li>
<li class="page_item"><a href="'.current_url('logout').'">'.__('Logout?').'</a></li>
</ul>';
} else {
// User is NOT logged in!!!
echo $before_widget . $before_title . __("Please Login...") . $after_title;
// Show any errors
global $myerrors;
$wp_error = new WP_Error();
if ( !empty($myerrors) ) {
$wp_error = $myerrors;
}
if ( $wp_error->get_error_code() ) {
$errors = '';
$messages = '';
foreach ( $wp_error->get_error_codes() as $code ) {
$severity = $wp_error->get_error_data($code);
foreach ( $wp_error->get_error_messages($code) as $error ) {
if ( 'message' == $severity )
$messages .= ' ' . $error . "<br />\n";
else
$errors .= ' ' . $error . "<br />\n";
}
}
if ( !empty($errors) )
echo '<div id="login_error">' . apply_filters('login_errors', $errors) . "</div>\n";
if ( !empty($messages) )
echo '<p class="message">' . apply_filters('login_messages', $messages) . "</p>\n";
}
// login form
echo '<form action="'.current_url().'" method="post" class="space25">';
?>
<p class="spacingfix"><label for="user_login"><?php _e('Username:') ?><br/><input name="log" value="<?php echo attribute_escape(stripslashes($_POST['log'])); ?>" class="sidelog" id="user_login" type="text" /></label></p>
<p class="spacingfix"><label for="user_pass"><?php _e('Password:') ?><br/><input name="pwd" class="sidelog" id="user_pass" type="password" /></label></p>
<p class="spacingfix"><label for="rememberme"><input name="rememberme" class="checkbox" id="rememberme" value="forever" type="checkbox" /> <?php _e('Remember me'); ?></label></p>
<p class="submit"><input type="submit" name="wp-submit" id="wp-submit" value=" <?php _e('Do It!'); ?> " /><span class="omega left25"><input type="reset" name="wp-clear" id="wp-clear" value=" <?php _e('Fix It!'); ?> " /></span>
<input type="hidden" name="sidebarlogin_posted" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="testcookie" value="1" /></p>
</form>
<?php
// Output other links
echo '<ul class="sidebarlogin_otherlinks">';
if (get_option('users_can_register')) {
// MU FIX
global $wpmu_version;
if (empty($wpmu_version)) {
?>
<?php
} else {
?>
<?php
}
}
?>
<li class="spacingfix"><a href="<?php bloginfo('wpurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword" title="<?php _e('Please visit the Password Lost & Found to claim your password') ?>"><?php _e('Forget your password?') ?></a></li>
<li class="spacingfix"><a href="<?php bloginfo('wpurl'); ?>/wp-signup.php"><?php _e('Register?') ?></a></li>
</ul>
<?php
}
// echo widget closing tag
echo $after_widget;
}
function widget_sidebarlogin_init() {
if ( !function_exists('register_sidebar_widget') ) return;
// Register widget for use
register_sidebar_widget(array('Sidebar Login', 'widgets'), 'widget_sidebarlogin');
}
function widget_sidebarlogin_check() {
if ($_POST['sidebarlogin_posted'] || $_GET['logout']) {
// Includes
//include_once('wp-settings.php');
global $myerrors;
$myerrors = new WP_Error();
//Set a cookie now to see if they are supported by the browser.
setcookie(TEST_COOKIE, 'WP Cookie check', 0, COOKIEPATH, COOKIE_DOMAIN);
if ( SITECOOKIEPATH != COOKIEPATH )
setcookie(TEST_COOKIE, 'WP Cookie check', 0, SITECOOKIEPATH, COOKIE_DOMAIN);
// Logout
if ($_GET['logout']==true) {
nocache_headers();
wp_logout();
wp_redirect(current_url('nologout'));
exit();
}
// Are we doing a sidebar login action?
if ($_POST['sidebarlogin_posted']) {
if ( is_ssl() && force_ssl_login() && !force_ssl_admin() && ( 0 !== strpos($redirect_to, 'https') ) && ( 0 === strpos($redirect_to, 'http') ) )
$secure_cookie = false;
else
$secure_cookie = '';
$user = wp_signon('', $secure_cookie);
// Error Handling
if ( is_wp_error($user) ) {
$errors = $user;
// If cookies are disabled we can't log in even with a valid user+pass
if ( isset($_POST['testcookie']) && empty($_COOKIE[TEST_COOKIE]) )
$errors->add('test_cookie', __("<strong class=\"errtext\">ERROR:</strong> Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must <a href='http://www.google.com/cookies.html'>enable cookies</a> to use WordPress."));
if ( empty($_POST['log']) && empty($_POST['pwd']) ) {
$errors->add('empty_username', __('<div class="err"><strong class="errbold">ERROR:</strong> Please enter your username.</div>'));
$errors->add('empty_password', __('<div class="err"><strong class="errbold">ERROR:</strong> Please enter your password.</div>'));
}
$myerrors = $errors;
} else {
wp_redirect(current_url('nologout'));
exit;
}
}
}
}
if ( !function_exists('current_url') ) :
function current_url($url = '') {
$pageURL = 'http';
if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") $pageURL .= "s";
$pageURL .= "://";
if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80") {
$pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
} else {
$pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
}
if ($url == "logout" && strstr($pageURL,'logout')==false) {
if (strstr($pageURL,'?')) {
$pageURL .='&logout=true';
} else {
$pageURL .='?logout=true';
}
}
if ($url == "nologout" && strstr($pageURL,'logout')==true) {
$pageURL = str_replace('?logout=true','',$pageURL);
$pageURL = str_replace('&logout=true','',$pageURL);
}
//added by mick
if (!strstr(get_bloginfo('wpurl'),'www.')) $pageURL = str_replace('www.','', $pageURL );
//
return $pageURL;
}
endif;
// Run code and init
add_action('init', 'widget_sidebarlogin_check',1);
add_action('widgets_init', 'widget_sidebarlogin_init');
?>
ASKER
Thanks for the reply, but that particular script requires the user to select their country from a list of possibilities generated from their IP address. I need something which will either explicitly define the country with corresponding welcome message, or at least use a "fall back" for each particular group of possibilities rather than needing user input.
I'm sorry to disapoint you my friend, but i just put the script work.. you didn't look at him at proper way..
Check example.php:
where is $ip = xxxxxxx....replace with: $ip = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
you can even use: $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANG
PS: Read the zip: READ_ME.txt
Check example.php:
where is $ip = xxxxxxx....replace with: $ip = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
you can even use: $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANG
PS: Read the zip: READ_ME.txt
<?php
require_once('CountryFromIP.inc.php');
//$ip ='XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX'; // THIS IP IS FOR TEST...
// YOU CAN DO THIS:
$ip = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
$object = new CountryFromIP();
$countryName = $object->GetCountryName($ip);
$flagPath = $object->ReturnFlagPath();
echo "<BR> <B>Country: </B>".$countryName;
echo "<BR> <B>Flag: </B> <img src=".$flagPath." border='0'>";
?>
ASKER
I'm a PRE-noobie when it comes to php, so I'm sorry I didn't catch that.
I am assuming that if I were to want to display a greeting based on the country rather than the country name and a flag, I would need to use "if" statements to match up each language's greeting with the corresponding country?
I am assuming that if I were to want to display a greeting based on the country rather than the country name and a flag, I would need to use "if" statements to match up each language's greeting with the corresponding country?
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Thank you so much for giving me an example even I could understand. I really appreciate it. That seems fairly complex, but I think I understand the general concept behind it. Thanks again!
Not mine, didn't change the zip autor's file..
From http://www.phpclasses.org
There are two files name *.php.txt .. just rename it to *.php
countryfromip-2005-06-22.zip