Possible to see which country users are from ?

[Iron Mike]

Hi,

I have a website here which has three language buttons, so the user can read the content in three different languages.

Here's my question:

Is it possible - either through flash or the html page that embeds the flash file - to see which country the user is from to show the page right from the start in the appropriate language ?

As always, thanx for your help and advise in advance ! ;)

Mike

[lLl]

Hi,

Its possible but there's a lot of work involved.
Once they enter your site, you'll need to get their ip and pass that as a variable to an Ip locator or lookup and get the returned value of the country (You can either purchase or rip some of those services such as geobytes). I suggest buying it if you don't want to pay a lot more later on. Then set up flash to get that data to be displayed.

I have done almost the same thing in the past. I think there are other ways to achieve this, a more efficient and better way than i'm suggesting.