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Revision: 62212
at February 8, 2013 00:10 by Hexahow
Initial Code 
<?php
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//The following codes populate the country list into dropdown box based on  browser's languages.
//The country information is getting from geolocation.com, 
//free license with attribution: The geolocation data is provided by http://www.geolocation.com

//Get the languages
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'])) {
	echo '<p>Browser Languages: ' . $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] . '</p>';
	echo '<p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;">Country List <span style="font-size:9pt; display:block;">The geolocation data is provided by <a href="http://www.geolocation.com">http://www.geolocation.com</a></span></p>';
	
	////////////////////////////
	//Get the browser languages
	if(preg_match_all('/([a-z]{1,8}(-[a-z]{1,8})?)\s*(;\s*q\s*=\s*(1|0\.[0-9]+))?/i', $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'], $lang_matches)){
		$langs = array_combine($lang_matches[1], $lang_matches[4]);
		foreach ($langs as $lang => $val)
		  if ($val === '') $langs[$lang] = 1;
		  
		arsort($langs, SORT_NUMERIC);
	}
	
	//Default to english
	$language = 'en-us';
	foreach ($langs as $lang => $val){
		$language = $lang;
		break;
	}
	
	//////////////////////
	//Load the Country File
	//Notes: 
	//Download the CSV file from http://www.geolocation.com
	//Rename the CSV to country-en-us.csv (for english version),
	//country-zh-cn.csv (for chinese simplified version),
	//country-zh-tw.csv (for chinese traditional version)
	//and save in the same folder as the php code resided.
	echo '<select>';
	$countries = file_get_contents("country-$language.csv");
	if (preg_match_all('/"(.*?)","(.*?)","(.*?)","(.*?)"/', $countries, $matches)){
		for($nIdx=1; $nIdx < count($matches[1]); $nIdx++){
			$alpha2_code = $matches[1][$nIdx];
			$country_name = $matches[4][$nIdx];
			//echo $alpha2_code . ',' . $country_name . '<br/>';
			echo '<option value=' . $alpha2_code . '">' . $country_name . '</option>';
		}
	}
	echo '</select>';

}
else
	echo 'Unable to locate browser languages';
?>
Initial URL 
http://www.geolocation.com
Initial Description 
The following codes populate the country list into dropdown box based on browser's languages. The country information is getting from geolocation.com
Initial Title 
Country list based on browser's language
Initial Tags 
list, ip
Initial Language 
PHP