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Geolocation contexts¶
Allows you to show pages and content elements for people in certain countries, continents or within a given area.
It uses the Maxmind GeoIP database to determine the user's probable physical location. Note that this is working most of the time, but also fails regularly.
Country and Continent rules are pretty safe to use, while small distances are not accurate at all.
Setup¶
Install the PHP extension
geoip
(requires root access to the server)If that is not possible, install the
Net_GeoIP
package from PEARInstall and activate this TYPO3 extension
contexts_geolocation
Dependencies¶
contexts
TYPO3 extensionstatic_info_tables
TYPO3 extensiongeoip
PHP extension, see its homepage- or Net_GeoIP from PEAR instead of
geoip
Context types¶
The contexts_geolocation
extension ships with three different
context types:
Continent¶
Matches when the user is on one of the selected continents.
Continent - unknown -
can be used to match all users whose position
could not be determined.
Country¶
Matches when the user accessing the page is in one of the selected countries.
Country - unknown -
can be used to match all users whose position
could not be determined.
Distance¶
Select a location on a map and a distance, and the context matches when the user's location is within this area.
Note that the free geoip database does seldom give you exact locations, so this is more a fun experiment rather that it should be used in production.