At 11:01 AM -0700 5/21/06, Ryan A wrote:
> As always in life, your choices are quick, good, and
inexpensive --
but you can only pick two. :-)
Hey! Thats a good one, am going to use it in other
places :-)
Thanks!
No problem -- I met with a client yesterday where I told him that. He
thought it a good quote as well, but let's see if he hires me. :-)
> In any event, if you find a "free one" better than
what I provided, please share.
Will do, the problem is, when I visited that page it
tells me:
Your location:
city (unknown)
Country: EU
That routine doesn't reference a dB-- it simply uses:
$location = get_location_xml( get_remote_ip() );
$city = parse_city( $location );
$country = parse_country( $location );
No big deal -- just something I found interesting.
and gives me an option to identify myself below... I
did, so it will help you expand your db, but I cant
want to ask the visitors to my clients site to do the
same, it has to show them their correct country a high
percentage of the time.
After submitting my location details I went back there
and refreshed the page but it still shows me the same
old data....
Yep, but you're expecting more from me than what I deserve.
I could collect the data and build my own dB -- that sounds
reasonable. But, my test here was simply to see how valid those calls
were. I have no idea if the people who are submitting data to me are
telling the truth or not. As such, it would be problematic to build a
reliable dB from the "few" visitors I receive.
Plus, things change. Sometimes I access my site and it shows my
correct location of "Lansing, MI", then other times is shows
"Jackson, MI", and today it's showing "Unknown, CA". So, even if I
were being honest, what would I report?
I have seen some pretty accurate reporting systems, but I fear that
they have to be kept current on a daily basis.
tedd
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