{"id":87,"date":"2004-08-27T20:22:46","date_gmt":"2004-08-27T18:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchfragfactory.net\/ozh\/archives\/2004\/08\/27\/ip-to-nation-plugin\/"},"modified":"2010-01-25T22:03:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T20:03:08","slug":"ip-to-nation-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/ip-to-nation-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"IP to Nation WordPress Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"

There it is, my very first real plugin for WordPress ("very first" meaning of course you can expect two or three more within the next 200 years). This plugin guesses your visitor's Country from his IP (check these examples<\/a>). Based upon the very good ip2nation<\/a> free data, I've simply packaged it as a plugin.
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Set up the MySQL table<\/h2>\n

First of all, go to ip2nation<\/a> and download the .sql file (I'm not mirroring it because it is updated from times to times, so get the latest one) This .sql file will create two tables, ip2nation <\/em>and ip2nationCountries<\/em>, containing top secret data you don't want explanations about :)<\/p>\n

Newbie tips<\/strong> : first, install PHPMyAdmin<\/a> on your website. This is a great interface for anything you can do with MySQL databases. Once it's done, look for the "SQL" link in the menu : you will be prompted for a .sql file, for example the one you just downloaded on your computer. It will set up and populate the required tables.<\/p>\n

Download the plugin<\/h2>\n
\nDownload the plugin :
\nozhs-ip-to-nation.zip<\/a>
\nExtract and upload to your blog, preserving directory structure if any.
\nNote: download counter here and stats on wordpress.org may differ and reflect the number of downloads before this plugin was hosted on the plugin directory<\/small>\n<\/div>\n

Use the plugin<\/h2>\n

I've created two "template tags" you can use in your pages :<\/p>\n