Switching spelling convention according to location of visitor

[Rob_D]

A website for a cross-cultural company needs to display either American- or International-English spelling according to the location of the visitor.

Is it possible to identify the geo-location of a visitor and have PHP parse the code to show "internationalization" for American visitors and "internationalisation" for the rest of the world? Assume the database (MySQL) is in International-English.

If so, will this impact significantly on speed?

[Rob_D]

To clarify.

Correct me if I am wrong, I understand the geo-location of visitors can be determined by the browser.

When it is established that the visitor is American, can PHP search and replace International spelling convention with American on the fly for the output?

Or is there a better solution?

[logic_earth]

geo-location is done by IP and I don't think its that big of a deal if you use International-English even for American visitors, endless a word has drastically different meaning.

[Rob_D]

geo-location is done by IP and I don't think its that big of a deal if you use International-English even for American visitors, endless a word has drastically different meaning.

Fair enough. However, this is what the client is asking for and they are specialists in cross-cultural communication.

Can you point me towards the method for getting the geo-location by IP?

[prince_mallow]

There are litterally tons of threads on sitepoint discussing this IP location thing, lots of them are interesting, since I know nothing in the matter I can only attempt to link you to the ones i can find, I just wish I could find one I saw the other day, that one was really good, it had a bunch of links for geo locators

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/show...ht=ip+location

[Rob_D]

Thanks. I think I will go by the language setting by browser as the simplest, cheapest method.

[logic_earth]

Just so you know either method is not completely reliable esp the browsers language settings.

[Rob_D]

Just so you know either method is not completely reliable esp the browsers language settings.

Yes, I realise that. Personally I don't think it's critical. I will ask you guys to test!

[cranial-bore]

In Firefox you can enter about:config in the address bar to change the browser configuration. You can probably change the language settings there if you want to test your detection.