Hi Demian,

To be honest, I don't think that I can design your whole system for you... you're looking for something quite complex.

However, I can give you a quick start for some of this.

(1) I don't know how to create a menu item from MetaMod. But, you can easily use MetaMod to create a normal hyperlink, as a module. You could do this:

$ciudad = $geoip->city;
if ( $ciudad != '' ) {
  $url = "index.php?option=com_sobi2&sobi2Task=search&catid=2&field_city=" . $ciudad;
  echo '<a href="' . JRoute::_( $url ) . '">Search</a>";
}

(2) Creating a list of all cities, and a select-list in SOBI2: I think that's a question to ask on the SOBI2 forums. I really can't help you there sorry.

Best regards,
Stephen

I tried this

$app = &JFactory::getApplication();
if ( $option == 'com_sobi2'and ($catid = JRequest::getVar('catid')) != '' ) {
if ( $catid == 4 ){
echo "You Search in: ".$geoip->city;
  $app->redirect( 'http://domain.com/index.php?option=com_ … ity=' . $geoip->city);
}
}

workin but it takes too much in updating the page

Hi Demian,

I don't completely understand your last e-mail... but thanks for the thanks

A question about your previous e-mail: what do you mean by "but it takes too much in updating the page"? Do you mean that it takes a long time to load the page, or that you are going to have to spend a long time adding lots of MetaMods with different $catid variables?

A note about redirection: when you use JRoute, it changes "&" to "&amp;" for use in <a> tags. This causes problems with $app->redirect, which does not work properly with &amp;. So all you have to do to make it work is this:

  $route = JRoute::_( 'http://domain.com/index.php?option=com_ … ity=' . $geoip->city);
  $route = str_replace( "&amp;","&", $route );
  $app->redirect( $route );

Hope that helps,
and maybe I'll see you in Mexico one day!
Stephen

Hi Demian, I'm really struggling with the English here, sorry... perhaps you can write in your native language and Google translate will help me understand?

However, I think you are saying that you want to be able to find out the latitude and longitude of a certain city, if you just have the city name. Right?

Unfortunately, the GeoIP City records and system from MaxMind don't allow you to look up the longitude and latitude for particular cities. You can only do a lookup by IP address, and then if there's a city record for that IP address then it also gives you the longitude and latitude.

There must be other databases around, available for PHP, that would allow this. Or, there may be web-based services that you could query for this information. I'm sorry I can't help you more with that (it's getting outside the scope of MetaMod).

Best regards,
Stephen