What if I could show you a way to restrict users on your website by geo-location? With just a few lines of PHP code, you can restrict, or depending on the situation, show, different content to users from different countries. I am sure you get the idea.
//get the country code
$country = file_get_contents("http://ipinfo.io/{$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']}/country");
//trim any whitespace
$c = trim($country);
//if country is Italy
if( ($c == "IT") ) {
echo "ciao";
//else if country is Britain
} else if ( ($c == "GB") ) {
echo "hello";
//else restrict access
} else {
echo "access restricted";
}
Country Code List
Here’s a list of ISO 3166-1 country codes.
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