Auto change the country list dropdown based on web browser languages
Submitted by chrislim2888 on Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 23:45.
Language
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
Browser Languages: ' . $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] . '';
echo 'Country List The geolocation data is provided by http://www.geolocation.com
';
////////////////////////////
//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 '';
}
else
echo 'Unable to locate browser languages';
?>
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