Get the country code of website user

Question

I want to get the country code of my website user so that I can show and hide some blocks in my code. How may I do that? For example if someone is browsing our website from Australia I should get AU.

I think there must be some code in Magento to know the country's location. If this feature is not out of the box in Magento then what is the purpose of having allow specific countries in almost every configuration? And how does allow specific countries work?

Answer 1

Try this:

$ipAddress =  $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$json       = file_get_contents("http://ipinfo.io/{$ipAddress}/json");
$details    = json_decode($json);
if(isset($details->country)) {
    echo $details->country;
}

Answer 2

You can use GeoIP module like:
https://www.mageworx.com/geoip-location-magento-extension.html

This one is for free and should be enough for Your needs :)

EDIT:

Specific countries for config are mostly related to shipping country address. For example users from whole world may log in into Your shop but they can ship only for specific countries. There is no native Magento functionality that may show You current country of customer.

GeoIp use current user's IP for recognize theirs location.

However if You want manage registered customers, You can use saved customers addresses

$address = Mage::getModel('customer/address')->load($customerAddressId);
$country_id = $addressess->getCountryId();
$countryModel = Mage::getModel('directory/country')->loadByCode($country_id);
$countryName = $countryModel->getName();

Using this method You will be able to manage only logged customers.

Answer 3

Simple: if the user is from the EU and has less than € 350 in the cart

<?php $countCart = $this->helper('checkout/cart')->getSummaryCount(); //get total items in cart $totalCart = $this->helper('checkout/cart')->getQuote()->getGrandTotal(); //get total price $visitorCountry = Mage::helper('geoip2/maxmind')->getGeoLocation($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])->countryCode; $eu=array('AT', 'BE', 'BG', 'HR', 'CY', 'CZ', 'DK', 'EE', 'FI', 'FR', 'DE', 'GR', 'HU', 'IE', 'IT', 'LV', 'LT', 'LU', 'MT', 'NL', 'PL', 'PT', 'RO', 'SK', 'SI', 'SP', 'SE', 'GB'); ?> <?php if ((in_array($visitorCountry, $eu)) && $totalCart < '350') : ?> <p class="alert-box note-msg">Free shipping for orders above 350€.</p> <?php endif ?>

Answer 4

Hello you can use below code to get country code of current visitor or user

$om = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance();
$remoteAddress = $om->get('Magento\Framework\HTTP\PhpEnvironment\RemoteAddress');
$ipdat = @json_decode(file_get_contents("http://www.geoplugin.net/json.gp?ip=".$remoteAddress->getRemoteAddress()));
echo $ipdat->geoplugin_countryCode;

Hope this will help you. Happy Coding !!!

Answer 5

Execute this from your custom controller function, using ipstack, Get your API key from your ipstack account.

public function execute()
{
    $visitorIp = $this->getVisitorIp();
    // YOUR_API_KEY : Get the API key from https://ipstack.com
    $url = "http://api.ipstack.com/".$visitorIp."?access_key=YOUR_API_KEY";
    $this->_curl->get($url);
    $response = json_decode($this->_curl->getBody(), true);
    // return visitor country
    return $response['country_code'];
}

/**
 * Function to get the visitor ip
 * @return text
 */
function getVisitorIp() {
    $remoteAddress = $this->objectManager->create('Magento\Framework\HTTP\PhpEnvironment\RemoteAddress');
    return $remoteAddress->getRemoteAddress();
}

complete custom module available here : https://github.com/Nayana-chandran/visitor-country-code