Display different ads based on IP adress

[access control forum]

I want to sell ads based on regions of the USA maybe even by state and different countries. I dont see this as a setting inside Ad Seller Pro. The link below seems to be all that I can find and requires adding code.

Is there a setting for ads based on IP address of a visitor/user in Ad Seller Pro?


http://www.smfhacks.com/index.php?topic=7497.0

[SMFHacks]

We do not have that feature built in. That would require a purchase of geoip database if you want to get state level specific.

[access control forum]

I can see that this would be useful to me. I found a free database. Who knows what long term support there will be.

Would it be possible to base it on location in the profile for registered users? Or base on a custom field see pic?


http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/

https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-services-and-databases

[SMFHacks]

I use maxmind a lot for stuff that I do.

The issue with using a custom profile field you will have very limited people who filled that in and doesn't count guests at all.

[Brewster]

I would be interested in this feature too.

I wrote an ad system for Wordpress that used maxmind to geo target the ads. It even used the web api and cached the results so that it didnt keep on requesting the location. I'll look up the name of the plugin later - it's been so long since I made any changes to it.

Joe

[SMFHacks]

I am looking into doing country geoip ads for next update.

[SMFHacks]

Added in 2.5

[access control forum]

Sweet on the countries!!! States or regions of the US on the horizon?

[SMFHacks]

State possibly. I have to see if there is a free database for it. I use one from maxmind it is paid. Not sure if their geolite database has state.

[Brewster]

Would you be able to add the ability to use cloudflare's geo location feature as well as maxmind to detect the country please?

More details can be found here: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168236-What-does-CloudFlare-IP-Geolocation-do-

Thanks,
Joe

[SMFHacks]

Maybe but geo location is already an option with maxmind seems like they both do the same thing.

[Brewster]

Yes, they both do the same thing. However cloudflare is free and there is no need to keep on updating the database

[Brewster]

Looks like this modification to adseller2.php would work?

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if (isset($_SERVER["HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY"])) {
$countrycode = $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY"];
} else {
$ipaddress = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
require_once($sourcedir . '/geoip.php');
$handle = geoip_open($sourcedir . '/GeoIP.dat', GEOIP_STANDARD);
// print_r($handle);
$countrycode = geoip_country_code_by_addr($handle, $ipaddress);
geoip_close($handle);
}

[SMFHacks]

Yeah that would do it.