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Hi All,

My client has two third party online stores they want to link to from their EE site.
These stores have multiple country versions (and therefore URLs).

eg:

http://www.zazzle.com/clientstuff
http://www.zazzle.co.uk/clientstuff
http://www.zazzle.com.au/clientstuff

It would be ideal to just send the user to the most relevant URL based on their location (with a US fallback).

I have tried Country Variables and Country Plugin but neither actually work (I would be happy if they did though!)

So to clarify:

On my one link i want to do this sort of thing:

{if users_location == "AU"}
  http://www.zazzle.com.au/clientstuff
{if:elseif users_location == "UK"}
  http://www.zazzle.co.uk/clientstuff
{if:else}
  http://www.zazzle.com/clientstuff
{/if}

Can this be done?

Hi daverayner,

Welcome to the Support Forums!

The Country Variables add-on is for ExpressionEngine 1.x only, you have posted to the EE 2 forum, so I’m gonna guess that’s what you are using. The County Plugin should work fine with EE 2, but it does note that the IP2Nation module has to be installed in order to function. Do you have that module installed? It is part of ExpressionEngine, but is not installed by default. You can check to see if it installed by going to Add-ons-> Modules and looking in the list. If the IP2Nation module has been installed, it will note that in green text.

Cheers!

Hi Dan,

You’re right - EE2.
I do have IP2Nation installed too… actually I did not know what to do with the Country Plugin file “pi.om_country_detector.php”? The support page / developer throws a 404.

I’m used to adding a folder to ‘third party’.

If that plugin can work - then happy days!

Hi All,

Country Plugin still gives no love (installed, but breaks)
“Fatal error: Call to a member function fetch_param() on a non-object in /nfs/c01/h13/mnt/11393/domains/smilingbear.com.au/html/systembear/expressionengine/third_party/om_country_detector/pi.om_country_detector.php on line 38”

Anyone got this plugin working?

I now have it on authority that Country Plugin is for EE1 only, not EE2 (from Mike Bridgeman)
http://www.mikebman.com/2010/10/expressionengine-country-plugin/#comment-2332

So can any one solve this pseudo code of mine:

{if users_location == “AU”}
  http://www.zazzle.com.au/clientstuff
{if:elseif users_location == “UK”}
  http://www.zazzle.co.uk/clientstuff
{if:else}
  http://www.zazzle.com/clientstuff
{/if}

Hello daverayner,

First, I apologize for the delay in response to you!

I did some more digging on devot:ee and found this:ipGeo From the description, it looks like it can provide what you are looking for.

Let us know how you get on.

Thanks!