Geotargeting by GeoIP integration

This plugin uses Maxmind's GeoIP database to look up a visitor's country depending on his IP-address.
You may use this e.g. to display specific content or advertisements depending on the geographical location of your visitors.

Installation:

1. Download geoip.inc PHP module and save it in your forum's includes/ directory.
2. Download the latest GeoLite Country Database GeoIP.dat.gz, uncompress it (gunzip or evil ones like WinRAR) and save the uncompressed file under includes/GeoIP.dat (you can change the location of this file in your vBulletin Options).
   You should update this file once in a while.
3. Make sure to have plugin system enabled.
4. Install product mip-geoiptracker-1.0.xml

Usage:
Use $bbuserinfo[country] (or $vbulletin->userinfo[country]) in your code, your templates, etc.
Have a look on the plugin sources and on GeoIP PHP API if you're interested in getting infos other than the country code.

Changes:

• 1.0.1 --> 1.0.2
  Fixed bug with geoipdatfile setting not being included in product.
• 1.0 --> 1.0.1
  Basic caching is done using cookies.

This plugin is likely to work also with commercial versions of Maxmind GeoIP databases, which would - with minor tweaks - allow resolving a user's location down to region and even city levels.

On high-traffic sites, I recommend using GeoIP PHP extension or Apache module instead of this plain PHP code.

Please note that I don't give free support for this plugin, as the vBulletin part is too simple and the rest is code from Maxmind.

[GamerJunk.net]

Awesome, I can't wait to play around with this.

[steven s]

Is there an example of this?

[Bad Bunny]

Originally Posted by 1996 328ti

Is there an example of this?

If there were an example, you would not know it, since it is unlikely you would be able to change your country to view a different set of ads.

[steven s]

Originally Posted by Bad Bunny

If there were an example, you would not know it, since it is unlikely you would be able to change your country to view a different set of ads.

I reread the description and now understands. I guess this is similar to what adsense does since I often have ads that are local.

[TomasDR]

Anyone know how to include this in online.php?

I have it all set except it is grabbing the country from the first user and listing that country all the way down, it's not working for each individual user.

[akanevsky]

What is the basic algorithm used in the inc file to retrieve country info based on ip (I don't feel like reading it through)?

EDIT:

Nevermind, it's based on DNS resolver... And DNS queries may cause page load delays, although not necessarily server load.
Bleh. Not interesting.

[meera]

Ok someone could help me.

I want only display specific country ads. Can some show example how can this be done..

[kafi]

Great add-on, I was just looking for it.

Does it work on 3.6x? I pray it does :-)

[brandondrury]

Great! I've been needing a solution like this.

Would there be any performance gains from simply deciding what country the user is from when they register and just keeping that in the userfield database?

Brandon

[Tom Freeman]

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but does this mod also allow me to geolocate forums. Therefore only showing certain forums to certain users based on their geographic location?

Thanks,
Tom