[SOLVED]Redirect to another shop if not located in the UK

[Chillax86]

Hi all, I need to redirect anyone that is outside of the UK to our other world-wide shop, so the solution I drummed up was to add the code below to restricted-country.tpl

 

{if ({$lang_iso} == 'gb')}

<script type="text/javascript">

window.location.href = "http://www.simplicitycomputers.co.uk/store";

</script>

{else}

<script type="text/javascript">

window.location.href = "http://www.simplicitycomputers.co.uk/store/worldwide/";

</script>

{/if}

 

But this is very buggy and isn't working quite right, I think this is because the if statement is relying on the browsers choice of language which isn't what I needed.

 

Does anyone have any idea how this could be done by IP the same way i think prestashop does it

 

 

Edited September 29, 2013 by Chillax86 (see edit history)

[El Patron]

you could do this using your .htaccess

#The 'Accept-Language' header starts with 'gb'
#and the test is case-insensitive ([NC])
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^gb [NC]
#Redirect user to gb shop address
#sending 301 (Moved Permanently) HTTP status code
RewriteRule ^$ (insert redirect url here) [L,R=301]

if you are unfamiliar with updating the ps generated copy of .htaccess see this post

www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/2131[spam-filter]tip-15-and-custom-htaccess/

[El Patron]

tip; A much better solution is to create a shop (using multistore) for each country you do business in...i.e. .com/.uk/.fr/.de  etc.

[Chillax86]

Thank you for your reply's. 

 

Really I would like to use the geolocation feature to do this if I can.

 

I have been nosing around in the FrontController.php and I found this

 

protected function displayRestrictedCountryPage()

{

    header('HTTP/1.1 503 temporarily overloaded');

    $this->context->smarty->assign('favicon_url', _PS_IMG_.Configuration::get('PS_FAVICON'));

    $this->smartyOutputContent(_PS_THEME_DIR_.'restricted-country.tpl');

    exit;

}

 

and I found a section that grabs the country_name in the geolocationManagement($default_country) function

 

include_once(_PS_GEOIP_DIR_.'geoipcity.inc');

 

$gi = geoip_open(realpath(_PS_GEOIP_DIR_.'GeoLiteCity.dat'), GEOIP_STANDARD);

$record = geoip_record_by_addr($gi, Tools::getRemoteAddr());

 

 

What I would like to do is override the FrontController.php and change displayRestrictedCountryPage() function to

 

protected function displayRestrictedCountryPage()

{

    header('HTTP/1.1 503 temporarily overloaded');

    $this->context->smarty->assign(array('favicon_url', _PS_IMG_.Configuration::get('PS_FAVICON'), 'geolocation_country' => $record->country_name);

    $this->smartyOutputContent(_PS_THEME_DIR_.'restricted-country.tpl');

    exit;

}

 

once the right value is assigned I can then do a smarty if statement to redirect to the right site

 

my problem now is trying to assign the right value to $geolocation_country

 

I'm guessing that i have to change all occurrences of $record to $this->record inside the geolocationManagement($default_country) function in order for me to assign the right value within displayRestrictedCountryPage() using $this->record->country_name.

 

hopefully this will work but when i tried it with an override by copying FrontController.php to the classes override directory it did not work. Is this because overrides can only add functionality not override, so do i have to edit the core files for this method to work.

 

Edited September 25, 2013 by Chillax86 (see edit history)

[El Patron]

when you  manually install an override, you must

 

delete the file "class_index.php" in cache folder.

[Chillax86]

Thanks that has worked a treat, I'm now overriding.

[sbweb]

Hi Chillax86

 

Can you write the whole solution down and post it in the forum, so other were able to replicate it on their own shops?.

 

Thanks!