How to Display visitors country name with the Flag magento

Hi guys, I am trying to display the visitors country name with the flag in magento header. But i am couldn't able to display it.
I checked in forums,they have given the solution is get the visitors ip using server http forward for code and sent the ip address to some other third party website to fetch the country. But they have pointed out that using http method is not a safer one. Is there any solution in magento to get ipaddress, country name and flag of the visitors in magento. Please advice me

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Originally Posted by Bale

Hi guys, I am trying to display the visitors country name with the flag in magento header. But i am couldn't able to display it.
I checked in forums,they have given the solution is get the visitors ip using server http forward for code and sent the ip address to some other third party website to fetch the country. But they have pointed out that using http method is not a safer one. Is there any solution in magento to get ipaddress, country name and flag of the visitors in magento. Please advice me

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Hello!

For displaying of the user’s country, you definitely need the third party extension.

As to get the country name by IP you need to connect geoip library and it gives you such opportunity.

Hi,

You need to edit your page.XML file

Here are the path are

app>design>frontend/default>Name of your theme>layout>page.xml

Then you need to go around 58th line

Please note that you need to put your country flag image folder under "skin>frontend>default>YOURTHEME>images>flag>your_ flag_FLAGNAME.jpg

Here you need to use one third party addons called firebug to find out the image name and then you need to place that image on particular folder.

Hope this will work best for you.

Thank you.

Check this link:
http://magento.stackexchange.com/que...ed-on-location

It might help you.

Hi,

To find the country of user you have to use the service of geoip2. It has an extensive databases covering 99.9999% of IP addresses in use. They keep updating there database regularly. Using it you an find country of the user. Now you will need flags of all the countries. You can download it from here http://flagpedia.net/download. After finding country of a visitor you can customize the view or redirect it to desired store.

Check our Magento Extensions at Knowband.com

There is a magento GeoIP extension which downloads latest maxmind data file and periodically updates it. I suggest hooking into controlller_front_init_before event. You can use the following code to check get the ISO 3166-1 code of visitors country and then redirect him to corespondent store view if you have one.

$geoIP = Mage::getSingleton('geoip/country');
$code = $geoIP->getCountry();

/*
* Check if store view for this country/language exists and it is not a current store view.
* If so do a redirect.
* You can also take a language from user agent into consideration.
*/