Show different content based on radius of IP location?

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1. A number of things are required.

   1. Browsers will let the user(s) know that you are attempting to detect their location and give the user(s) an option to decline the geolocation attempt. Should they do so, you need to have a fallback such as a search page for your stores or display a particular store’s number instead e.g. the headquarters.

   2. If the user(s) accept(s) the geolocation attempt, you could calculate their nearness based on a number of calculations, such as the one provided in step 3 of this tutorial. For working examples, please check out Bjorn’s store locator plugin which works flawlessly and comes with many UI options and a working radius detection visible in the search results of any of the demo pages. You can also dig into his code to see how he calculated the radius or which third party functions he used to do so.

   3. If you are implementing this in wordpress, you might need to write a simple plugin for it and create a simple shortcode to use along with it or add your function to the functions.php file, although it is preferrable to write a plugin and keep your work organized and easier to edit/maintain later on as a result.

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2. take a look at http://www.geoplugin.com/webservices/php

   echo var_export(unserialize(file_get_contents('http://www.geoplugin.net/php.gp?ip='.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])));
   

   Output

   array ( ‘geoplugin_request’ => ‘50.143.52.48’, ‘geoplugin_status’
   => 200, ‘geoplugin_credit’ => ‘Some of the returned data includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind, available from
   http://www.maxmind.com.’, ‘geoplugin_city’ => ‘Pompano Beach’,
   ‘geoplugin_region’ => ‘FL’, ‘geoplugin_areaCode’ => ‘954’,
   ‘geoplugin_dmaCode’ => ‘528’, ‘geoplugin_countryCode’ => ‘US’,
   ‘geoplugin_countryName’ => ‘United States’,
   ‘geoplugin_continentCode’ => ‘NA’, ‘geoplugin_latitude’ =>
   ‘26.2442’, ‘geoplugin_longitude’ => ‘-80.205902’,
   ‘geoplugin_regionCode’ => ‘FL’, ‘geoplugin_regionName’ => ‘Florida’,
   ‘geoplugin_currencyCode’ => ‘USD’, ‘geoplugin_currencySymbol’ =>
   ‘$’, ‘geoplugin_currencySymbol_UTF8’ => ‘$’,
   ‘geoplugin_currencyConverter’ => ‘1’, )

   PHP Class

   <?php
   require_once('geoplugin.class.php');
   $geoplugin = new geoPlugin();
   // If we wanted to change the base currency, we would uncomment the following line
   // $geoplugin->currency = 'EUR';
   
   $geoplugin->locate();
   
   echo "Geolocation results for {$geoplugin->ip}: <br />n".
       "City: {$geoplugin->city} <br />n".
       "Region: {$geoplugin->region} <br />n".
       "Area Code: {$geoplugin->areaCode} <br />n".
       "DMA Code: {$geoplugin->dmaCode} <br />n".
       "Country Name: {$geoplugin->countryName} <br />n".
       "Country Code: {$geoplugin->countryCode} <br />n".
       "Longitude: {$geoplugin->longitude} <br />n".
       "Latitude: {$geoplugin->latitude} <br />n".
       "Currency Code: {$geoplugin->currencyCode} <br />n".
       "Currency Symbol: {$geoplugin->currencySymbol} <br />n".
       "Exchange Rate: {$geoplugin->currencyConverter} <br />n";
   
   if ( $geoplugin->currency != $geoplugin->currencyCode ) {
       //our visitor is not using the same currency as the base currency
       echo "<p>At todays rate, US$100 will cost you " . $geoplugin->convert(100) ." </p>n";
   }
   
   /* find places nearby */
   $nearby = $geoplugin->nearby();
   if ( isset($nearby[0]['geoplugin_place']) ) {
       echo "<pre><p>Some places you may wish to visit near " . $geoplugin->city . ": </p>n";
       foreach ( $nearby as $key => $array ) {
   
           echo ($key + 1) .":<br />";
           echo "t Place: " . $array['geoplugin_place'] . "<br />";
           echo "t Country Code: " . $array['geoplugin_countryCode'] . "<br />";
           echo "t Region: " . $array['geoplugin_region'] . "<br />";
           echo "t County: " . $array['geoplugin_county'] . "<br />";
           echo "t Latitude: " . $array['geoplugin_latitude'] . "<br />";
           echo "t Longitude: " . $array['geoplugin_longitude'] . "<br />";
           echo "t Distance (miles): " . $array['geoplugin_distanceMiles'] . "<br />";
           echo "t Distance (km): " . $array['geoplugin_distanceKilometers'] . "<br />";
   
       }
       echo "</pre>n";
   }
   ?>
   

   This will output:

   Geolocation results for 50.143.52.48: 
   City: Pompano Beach 
   Region: FL 
   Area Code: 954 
   DMA Code: 528 
   Country Name: United States 
   Country Code: US 
   Longitude: -80.205902 
   Latitude: 26.2442 
   Currency Code: USD 
   Currency Symbol: $ 
   Exchange Rate: 1 
   
   Some places you may wish to visit near Pompano Beach:
   1:
        Place: Whispering Pines Addition Mobile Home Park
        Country Code: US
        Region: Florida
        County: 
        Latitude: 26.2711000
        Longitude: -80.1442900
        Distance (miles): 4.25 
        Distance (km): 6.83 
   2:
        Place: Coral Springs
        Country Code: US
        Region: Florida
        County: 
        Latitude: 26.2711900
        Longitude: -80.2706000
        Distance (miles): 4.42 
        Distance (km): 7.12 
   3:
        Place: Pompano Beach
        Country Code: US
        Region: Florida
        County: 
        Latitude: 26.2378600
        Longitude: -80.1247700
        Distance (miles): 5.05 
        Distance (km): 8.12 
   4:
        Place: Rock Island
        Country Code: US
        Region: Florida
        County: 
        Latitude: 26.1550900
        Longitude: -80.1769900
        Distance (miles): 6.41 
        Distance (km): 10.32 
   5:
        Place: Lighthouse Point
        Country Code: US
        Region: Florida
        County: 
        Latitude: 26.2756400
        Longitude: -80.0872700
        Distance (miles): 7.66 
        Distance (km): 12.34 
   

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