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Hi,

I’m trying to set country for a visitor automatically, and keep it sitewide in order to show correct currencies and links (all in same language tho).

The idea is to detect country with ip2nation, set a variable with the country name and then use conditionals in some places to show different currencies & links depending on the country variable. Ideally the variable has to be kept for all pages for faster load times.

How can i do that? haven’t found how to do it on docs.

Regards,

how about using cookies?

http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/cookie-plus

check to see if the cookie is set (if it is, use it as a variable to update currency, language, etc)

if it isn’t set, use ip2nation to set the language and country

I saw this plugin, session_variables and variables plugin (all in devotee), but all of these 3 seems to have problems with if statements from reading the comments and archived forums.

a less preferred way to deal with that would be to check, set and retrieve the cookie(s) in PHP, and use the PHP rendered result in the IF-THEN statements…  (just throwing out ideas - I’m not sure if this will be a good match for your situation)

Hi photek,

ExpressionEngine doesn’t offer a variable setting and getting scheme out of the box, but a really great way to overcome this is to use an add-on like Stash.

Stash can work within templates or have values stored in the database. And it plays nice with conditionals 😊

Cheers,