More Perl Scripts
Application

The zipped archive (bottom of page) contains several versions of simple scripts you can use to run on your server which uses our IP to country database flat file to lookup the country of origin of an IP address. Scripts are written in PHP and Perl. and most do something similar to what you see below although some are designed to work with MySQL data as well.

Geo Location or GeoIP (also called geo targeting) databases, have many applications. The include the following:

• Real Time Country Geo-Location
• Web Server Log analysis
• Creation of Location Aware Content such as language, currency, etc.
• Fraud Detection, Credit Card Fraud vetting etc.
• On-line campaigns such as targeted Banner Ads
• Digital Rights Management such as music or film distribution
• Auto country detection for rapid form entry such as country, currency, language.
• Filter web access on basis of originating country
• Spam mail Filtering
• Use your imagination ...

If you have never installed a script before, you may find this above you.
 

#!/usr/bin/perl

It can also be #!/usr/local/bin/perl on some servers.

2) Upload the script to a web accessible directory on your server that can execute CGI scripts. For example the cgi-bin directory on your website.

3) Make sure you upload the script in ASCII mode or it won't work.

4) CHMOD it to 755.

5) Unzip the file you downloaded from here and upload it to the same directory as the script. If you call it 'IpToCountry.csv' on your server (Case Sensitive!!) you won't need to change anything in the Perl code.

6) There are only 3 variables you worth mentioning in the code you can change:

my $geofile = 'IpToCountry.csv';

The name of the data file. If you put it elsewhere on your server, be sure to include the full path here.

my $date_delimiter = '-';

The symbol used between the parts of the date

my $date_format = 'mmm-dd-yyyy';

The display format of the date.

7) Don't forget to update your database form time to time by downloading the latest data file.