New drupal ip_locator module

By he_who_shall_not_be_named on 23 Oct 2005 at 10:56 UTC

I released a country level ip locator Drupal module.
You can download and/or test it here http://www.para.ro/en/node/130.

Comments

Su-weeet! Care to put it in the contributions repository?

robertdouglass commented 23 October 2005 at 11:03

Thanks for your excellent contribution. Have you considered putting it in the contrib repository here at Drupal.org? To do so you apply for a CVS account:
http://drupal.org/cvs-account

If you don't want to do that, let me know and I'll commit it on your behalf.

Great work!

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I'll do it

he_who_shall_not_be_named commented 23 October 2005 at 11:59

Thanks for your fast reply.
The http://drupal.org/cvs-account says that I allready have an account (I submited it before but I never get a response).
Of course, if my cvs account works I will submit my projects there.

Excellent

patrickharris commented 23 October 2005 at 11:59

Hey - this looks excellent. Thanks very much.

Amazing!

Brian@brianpuccio.net commented 23 October 2005 at 14:54

Thanks for your work and your willingness to add this to the Drupal contribution's repository and keep all the Drupal modules available in one centralized location.

GeoIP

Thox commented 23 October 2005 at 15:59

If I request your site in English then my country shows as US (incorrect). If I click for the Romanian version then it correctly shows that I'm in the UK. This behaviour is mentioned in one of the comments too, so it's worth looking in to.

For comparison, I've also got a IP-location module, based on the MaxMind GeoIP database. You can see a demo on my site.

On another site I've actually hacked part of Drupal core to insert the country into the access table. That way, I can generate country-based statistics. Ideally though, I'd do that without editting core files.

Thanks for your issue

he_who_shall_not_be_named commented 23 October 2005 at 18:05

Send me your ip, please. I will do an investigation. MaxMind GeoIp database is for cash. :)

Fixed

Thox commented 24 October 2005 at 10:31

The bug seems fixed now.

Also, I meant I was using the GeoLite Country Database, which is GPL.

Do you know how your sources compare with regards to accuracy and working with AOL? The one I use claims to be 97% accurate but reports all AOL users being in the US.

That's it.

he_who_shall_not_be_named commented 24 October 2005 at 11:17

That's it. IP locator returns US for all AOL users, too. In the future, if we can, we'll change that.

Your issue is confirmed

he_who_shall_not_be_named commented 23 October 2005 at 18:01

Your related bug is confirmed. I disabled the Drupal cache on my site. See if it works now.

Thanks.

ip_locator hotfix

he_who_shall_not_be_named commented 24 October 2005 at 09:31

I added a hotfix to it described in the CHANGELOG.txt.
http://www.para.ro/en/node/130.

When can we have a support for IP2Location Web Locator?

tgotchi commented 7 January 2006 at 10:05

We hope to see a support for other geolocation service as well.

http://www.ip2location.com

Be more explicit, please

he_who_shall_not_be_named commented 6 February 2006 at 10:48

Be more explicit, please. I don't understand your comment.

ip_locator crashes the database

oleykin commented 9 September 2006 at 21:24

I just installed it. MYSQL has given me "you have exceeded 50000 max_questions"
By reading on drupal.org and my hosting forums I conclude that this is the problem with the script not closing the tables somewhere!

Please advise!

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grow the import rows limit

he_who_shall_not_be_named commented 2 December 2006 at 09:18

Modify the import options from phpMyAdmin.

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Show directly users country

Antorkh commented 28 November 2006 at 13:42

Hi, i didnt get how to plainly show the users country, but not the form in the block. Is it possible?

best regards,
Antorkh

got it

Antorkh commented 28 November 2006 at 14:37

ok, i got it by my own:

put into hook_block:

unset($_SESSION['ip_locator_country']);
if(!ipl_country($country_code, $country_name, $latitude, $longitude, $country_flag)) $block['content'] .= "getting country failed";
$block['content'] .= '<small>' . t('Your location: ') . '</small>';
$block['content'] .= theme_image($country_flag, $country_name, $country_name) . ' ';
$block['content'] .= '<small>' . $country_name . '</small>';
$block['content'] .= '<small>' . $country_code . '</small>';
$block['content'] .= '<br/><small>' . sprintf(t('Lat/long: %s/%s'), $latitude, $longitude) . '</small>';

its dirty but you left me no choice! :P

Drupal's Geo IP status

druvision commented 15 October 2007 at 04:13

The original IP locator module can no longer be downloaded - the node doesn't exist.
Is there a newer module which may be contributed? Or is the GeoIP functionality covered by other modules like locaiton.module or GMap?

Please advise

Thanks in advance,

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ip_locator module

druvision commented 15 October 2007 at 04:29

OK, I got it. The module is called ip_locator, and there's a nice demo there.

Does it still depends on MaxMind's GeoIP database? I see no clue to it in the installation instructions.

Nope

he_who_shall_not_be_named commented 15 October 2007 at 07:19

Nope. The install.txt contains some info. To install the iIPs just download the ip_locator_geo_ips from http://project.para.ro/project/ip_locator and run it (phpMyAdmin or mysqladmin) to import its data.