Auto change the country list dropdown based on web browser languages

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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

  1. <html>
  2. <head>
  3. </head>
  4. <body>
  5. 	<?php
  6.  
  7. 	//Get the languages
  8. 	if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'])) {
  9. 		echo '<p>Browser Languages: ' . $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] . '</p>';
  10. 		echo '<p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;">Country List <span style="font-size:9pt; display:block;">The geolocation data is provided by <a href="<a href="http://www.geolocation.com">http://www.geolocation.com</a></span></p>';
  11. " rel="nofollow">http://www.geolocation.com">http://www.geolocation.com</a></span></p>';
  12. </a>		
  13. 		////////////////////////////
  14. 		//Get the browser languages
  15. 		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)){
  16. 			$langs = array_combine($lang_matches[1], $lang_matches[4]);
  17. 			foreach ($langs as $lang => $val)
  18. 			  if ($val === '') $langs[$lang] = 1;
  19.  
  20. 			arsort($langs, SORT_NUMERIC);
  21. 		}
  22.  
  23. 		//Default to english
  24. 		$language = 'en-us';
  25. 		foreach ($langs as $lang => $val){
  26. 			$language = $lang;
  27. 			break;
  28. 		}
  29.  
  30. 		//////////////////////
  31. 		//Load the Country File
  32. 		//Notes: 
  33. 		//Download the CSV file from <a href="http://www.geolocation.com
  34. " rel="nofollow">http://www.geolocation.com
  35. </a>		//Rename the CSV to country-en-us.csv (for english version),
  36. 		//country-zh-cn.csv (for chinese simplified version),
  37. 		//country-zh-tw.csv (for chinese traditional version)
  38. 		//and save in the same folder as the php code resided.
  39. 		echo '<select>';
  40. 		$countries = file_get_contents("country-$language.csv");
  41. 		if (preg_match_all('/"(.*?)","(.*?)","(.*?)","(.*?)"/', $countries, $matches)){
  42. 			for($nIdx=1; $nIdx < count($matches[1]); $nIdx++){
  43. 				$alpha2_code = $matches[1][$nIdx];
  44. 				$country_name = $matches[4][$nIdx];
  45. 				//echo $alpha2_code . ',' . $country_name . '<br/>';
  46. 				echo '<option value=' . $alpha2_code . '">' . $country_name . '</option>';
  47. 			}
  48. 		}
  49. 		echo '</select>';
  50.  
  51. 	}
  52. 	else
  53. 		echo 'Unable to locate browser languages';
  54. 	?>
  55. </body>
  56. </html>
Tags: 
geolocation
ip location. country list
country list chinese simplified
country list chinese traditional
country list english

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