Is there a way to expose what Country Maxmind thinks you’re in

[Jon Heslop]

Hey

I wondered if there was a way to expose the country Maxmind returns so I can use it to show a flag. For example… Knowing the language is German doesn’t let me differentiate between Germany or Switzerland. So knowing the country would help here.

[Stanislav Khromov]

Provided you have the plugin installed, you should be able to do this in your themes functions.php

global $ipr;
$country_code = @geoip_country_code_by_addr($ipr->db, $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);

Now $country_code should hold your country code directly from MaxMind.

There is actually an example on customizing the list of flags over at WPML:
http://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/language-setup/custom-language-switcher/

(Under "List of language names and flags for the footer")

Hope that helps.

[Jon Heslop]

Thanks for the quick reply
This errors badly… it just makes the page return entirely blank… no html at all and no errors.
Any ideas?

[Stanislav Khromov]

jon,

You need to enable WP_DEBUG to see errors.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress

Without it there's no meaningful way of knowing what went wrong.
However, I assume you have activated this plugin before trying the aformentioned code, because it won't work without it.

[Jon Heslop]

Hey I had debug mode on but the @ sign at the beginning of the function was suppressing the errors.

I couldn’t get it to work that way but then I looked into the Maxmind library baked into the plugin and got it working this way:

require_once( ABSPATH . '/wp-content/plugins/wp-wpml-geoip-browser-language-redirect/lib/geoip-api-php/geoip.inc' ); // For country lookup
$gi = geoip_open(ABSPATH . '/wp-content/plugins/wp-wpml-geoip-browser-language-redirect/database/GeoIP.dat',GEOIP_STANDARD); // IP Data
$countryCodeByMaxMind = geoip_country_code_by_addr($gi, $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
$countryByMaxMind = geoip_country_name_by_addr($gi, $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
geoip_close($gi); 

Thanks for your help

[Stanislav Khromov]

Happy that it worked out for you. You can download the standalone PHP library (same as this plugin uses) from the MaxMind homepage.