Hi,

Thanks for your valuable suggestion.

I am developing site based on country. Its open based on the Country IP using metamod.

If user wants to change the country,using country list drop down on home page (Country selection provided on home page), it should show country related pages. This is my requirement.

I am trying to develop using your suggestion. Only my concern is,when user changes country then how to set the changed country id to metamod , so that changed country pages will appear.

Thanks,
Eswar.

Hi Eswar,

ok, I'm not sure if you are developing other components with PHP, or whether you don't know much PHP. Your 1st post suggests you might know quite a lot...

So, I would suggest that you code things so that if the site receives a certain parameter in the URL (that is provided by the dropdown for selecting country), that you set a session variable or cookie based on that. Then, in MetaMod you check for that session variable. If the session variable is not set, then use the GeoIP country.

e.g. like this in the MetaMod:

$override = JRequest::getInt('country');
if ($override == 1) $_SESSION['country_override'] = 'DE';
if ($override == 2) $_SESSION['country_override'] = 'ES';
if ($override == 3) $_SESSION['country_override'] = 'FR';
if ($override == 4) $_SESSION['country_override'] = 'BE';

if (isset($_SESSION['country_override'])) {
  // get it from the session, either set just now, or on a previous page
  $country = $_SESSION['country_override'];
} else {
  // get it from GeoIP
  $country = $fromCountryId;
}
// ... then test $country for whatever country code you're looking for


Then in your dropdown for selecting countries, the URLs would be:

example.com/?country=1 for Germany
example.com/?country=2 for Spain
example.com/?country=3 for France
example.com/?country=4 for Belgium


Does that sound like it will do the job for you?

Cheers,
Stephen