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[Bruce Martin]

Yes, You will need to set up an ajax call to your php script. I use json to send the response back so it is already in a form javascript can handle without needing to parse it. Of course just replying with a country code is simple enough so you wouldn't need to use json.

Jquery has some nice wrappers for ajax, so follow their examples on the site. Just remember to set your response Content-type headers in PHP to text/json so it is treated as a json object when it is received by the browser.

Bruce Martin




On May 30, 2011, at 2:42 AM, David Roth wrote:

> I'm using Tumblr.com for a blog platform for a new website. It has a lot of benefits as a blog, but it also has the restriction of not being able to embed PHP code in the HTML theme template. (Yes, I know, my feelings exactly! :-) )
> 
> But Tumblr does support Javascript. What I'm trying to do is get the county code of the user so that different links can be presented to them that matches their country. Serving up different links based on the country code would be handled by Javascript.
> 
> There is a Javascript Google library jsapi, but it doesn't work properly for county code. For example,  I'm in the New York City metro area and it says I'm in Canada, not the US. I don't recalling having this kind of problem with PHP scripts, so I'd like to use a PHP script. But I don't know of a way in JavaScript to be able to call a PHP script and make the result accessible with the Javascript so it can serve up the correct country links.
> 
> I admit I've not done much Javascript programming compared to PHP, so I'm not sure if I'm overlooking something. Maybe this is a AJAX and jQuery task? I'd appreciate it if someone could offer a workable solution.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> David Roth
> 
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