variable for ip adress ip to country geo FLAG

[foofoo]

Is there a way to call up fetch the ipadres of an user who submitted an atricle?

Im trying some code that will show a country flag on the story details page based on the user ip adres who submitted the article.

{if $pagename eq "story" || $pagename eq "submit"}
<div style="float: left; top:5px; bottom:5px;">
<IMG SRC="http://api.hostip.info/flag.php?ip={$smarty.server.REMOTE_ADDR}" ALT="IP Address Lookup">
</div>
{/if}

{$smarty.server.REMOTE_ADDR} or maybe {$ip_variable}



Do i need to copy some lookup ipadres smarty plugin in to the plugins folder ?

How do i use these correct , $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR ?

I found this can this link and info be used for what i want?

http://www.smarty.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=55759

Some advanced pligger has a tip?

[foofoo]

I found this old thread,

http://forums.pligg.com/questions-co...voters-ip.html

I guess its the same i want only for the flag to show up on the story details page next to the users avatar.

Custom coding?

Or with some work able to do with the info from the above old thread

Ok so how would this go?
copy this code in a .php ?

// make a valid request to the hostip.info API
if ($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARD_FOR']) {
$ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARD_FOR'];
} else {
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
}

$url = "http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip=".$ip;

// fetch with curl
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$country = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close ($ch);

and call it in linksummary with {$ip} ?

{if $pagename eq "story" || $pagename eq "submit"}
<div style="float: left; top:5px; bottom:5px;">
<IMG SRC="http://api.hostip.info/flag.php?ip={$ip}" ALT="IP Address Lookup">
</div>
{/if}

Any help apreciated.

[urbn]

This will be a pretty big project if you want to try to manually add the flag. You will also run into many problems with IP blocks changing and countries that share IP blocks (which will really piss off a number of people in countries that are near one another, think ex-Russian countries for example).

A better solution would be to have a pre-generated drop down of countries that a user can choose from.

But if you really want to try this I would suggest checking out www.countryipblocks.net which will generate the IP address ranges for countries and such for you. I think after you generate the IP ranges for all countries you will realize how MASSIVE of a project this will be.

[foofoo]

Isnt there a variable like $url $storyurl ?

$userip

if $pagename eq "story" || $pagename eq "submit"}
<div style="float: left; top:5px; bottom:5px;">
<IMG SRC="http://api.hostip.info/flag.php?ip={$userip}" ALT="IP Address Lookup">
</div>
{/if}

The above code shows a flag depending on ?ip
http://api.hostip.info/flag.php?ip=34.345.34.343 is how you would use it.

Would work same as fetching the original story url with {$url}


Thats what i had in mind i search the wikki but couldnt find a command for the user ip adres like $url

[foofoo]

Ok how bout this one simpler maybe to accomplish.

$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']

How do i use this to fetch the submitted site ip adres.

So not the users ip adres. But just the ip adres of the articles site for example.

Ive setup my pliggsite for adding websites not articles.

So ive tought instead of the users ip adres who submitted the article/website it fetches the added websites adress. Is this more easy to acomplish