Route visitors dependent on IP address?

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Robert_J Reply #1, 15 years, 4 months ago

Hi,

I have a problem where I am trying to route visitors through different page flows on our website dependent upon their IP address.
I have spent three days looking at how to achieve this, but I can’t get my head around it.

For instance:

User A has an IP address of XXXXXX, I want their route to flow like this:
Page 1 (click on hyperlink to page 2) ===> Page 2.ver1 (click on hyperlink to page 3) ===> Page 3

User B has an IP address of YYYYYY, I want their route to flow like this:
Page 1 (click on hyperlink to page 2) ===> Page 2.ver2 (click on hyperlink to page 3) ===> Page 3

I have searched for plugins that may do this kind of thing but have drawn a blank.

As I see it, I need to be able to:

Retrieve the visitor’s IP address
Compare that address against a list of IP ranges that then returns a value (i.e. A, B, C etc.)
Then route to one of a number of different pages depending on the return value

I don’t know if anyone can point me in the right direction as to how I might be able to do this type of thing?

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novolo Reply #2, 15 years, 4 months ago

I have a client site running such a snippet. I currently can’t set this open-source, if client says yes to this, I will do that in near future.

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mrhaw Reply #3, 15 years, 4 months ago

You want to write a plugin or (DUH!) use a SNIPPET!

<?php
$user = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
    
$check1 = strpos($user, 'XXX.XXX.XX.XX'); //Replace with IP
$check2 = strpos($user, 'XXX.XXX.XX.XX');
  
if ($check1 !== false){ 
    $modx->sendForward(1); //resource id 1 
} elseif ($check2 !== false){ 
    $modx->sendForward(2);
}

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Robert_J Reply #4, 15 years, 4 months ago

Thanks for the replies laugh

I’ve been unavoidably away for the past couple of weeks, but I’ll now take another look at this. Thanks for the pointer.

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novolo Reply #5, 15 years, 4 months ago

Quote from: novolo at Jun 08, 2011, 05:06 AM

I have a client site running such a snippet. I currently can’t set this open-source, if client says yes to this, I will do that in near future.

This will released soon for the community from Bruno17 and should go to extra’s section then. Functionality is like a newspaper-paywall.

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Robert_J Reply #6, 15 years, 4 months ago

Just an update in case anyone is looking to get each visitor’s location.

I have implemented to free MaxMind Geolite utility. I found the following post most helpful in applying this:
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php?topic=50853.0

Thank you for your feedback and suggestions.

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BobRay Reply #7, 15 years, 4 months ago

Quote from: mrhaw at Jun 08, 2011, 05:28 AM

You want to write a plugin or (DUH!) use a SNIPPET!

<?php
$user = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
    
$check1 = strpos($user, 'XXX.XXX.XX.XX'); //Replace with IP
$check2 = strpos($user, 'XXX.XXX.XX.XX');
  
if ($check1 !== false){ 
    $modx->sendForward(1); //resource id 1 
} elseif ($check2 !== false){ 
    $modx->sendForward(2);
}

For anyone using this snippet, I would recommend this instead (default case keeps from hanging the user out to dry):

<?php
$user = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];

/* if you are behind a proxy server, you'd probably want this instead:
         $user =   $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
*/
    
switch ($user ) {
    case 'xx.xxx.xx.xx':    //Replace with IP
        $modx->sendForward(1); //resource id 1 
        break;
   
   case 'xx.xxx.xx.xx' // Replace with IP
        $modx->sendForward(2);
        break;

   default:
        $modx->sendForward(3);
        break;
}

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Robert_J Reply #8, 15 years, 4 months ago

The advantage of the MaxMind Geolite utility is that they make available and update an IP address to country code database. Therefore, I did not have to worry about individual, or ranges of, IP addresses. Thus, the code can look something like this:

    
switch ($country ) {
    case 'US':    //
        $modx->sendForward(1); //resource id 1 
        break;
   
   case 'GB' //
        $modx->sendForward(2);
        break;

   default:
        $modx->sendForward(3);
        break;
}

Thanks, to everyone for their input on this.