Genesis, Adrotate plugin and Maxmind Geotracking

[mathiasppc]

Hi there,

Have spent many hours now on trying to figure out how I can get these three working together. Would really appreciate any input/suggestions on how to tackle this.

I think it can be done with either JS or PHP, the last one would require an external plugin like Exec-PHP.

First of all, from a performance standpoint, is it bad to run PHP code inside posts, widgets etc?

 

Here`s what I`ve got so far in JS:

<code>

`
if (country_code==’US’)
{
document.write("[adrotate banner="1"]");
}
else
{
document.write("[adrotate banner="2"]");
}

 

`
The problem is that outputing the shortcodes does not work. I`ve tried all combinations of using ' and ", but no luck!

 

I could use PHP too. In that case I`m having problems with saving the variable country_code globally. I want to only run the code before the if-statement once (and not for every ad on my page).

 

<code>

<?php
require_once(“geoip.inc”);
$gi = geoip_open(“GeoIP.dat”,GEOIP_STANDARD);
$country_code = geoip_country_code_by_addr($gi, $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
geoip_close($gi);
if($country_code == ‘US’ || $country_code == false)
{
echo adrotate_group(1);
}
else
{
echo adrotate_group(2);
}
?>

</code> 

 

Again, would love any responses on this!

Thanks in advance

 

-Mathias

http://energyinformative.org/genesis/

[cehwitham]

Hi Mathias,

I would write the PHP code into a function then use a genesis hook to inset it into the right place. genesis_before_post for example.

Chris

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