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| Topic: How do those "Meet some in..." ads work? | |
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How do those ads work that say "Meet someone in..." ( and it gives your city, or a town near you)?
I'm guessing it's some sort of IP tracking? I would like to do something similar on my site, but how is it done? Any help would be apperciated. |
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BAD NEWS... I FORGOT THE NAME BUT THEY ARE UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR FRAUD. THEY WERE ON 20 20 OR SOME NEWS CAST RECENTLY LYING TO US ABOUT HOW MANY SINGLES AND OTHER THINGS THAT THEY CLAIM THAT ARE NOT TRUE. THEY ALSO CHARGE $1000.00 and much higher.. run to the hills!!!
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They typically use to use a "wildcard" command in the programming, that usually picks up from information you have entered on your system. But these days, I guess it could be possible for IP trackers. I'm not totally sure, because I'm not a code programmer, just know some basics in that realm.
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if you check around, some of those pics are people that are in magazines, or quite prevalent on the internet, and are in those singles slots... right away, that's a dead giveaway that it's fraud.
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Edited by
Totage
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Thu 02/07/08 12:58 PM
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I have Elgg installed, and there's a keyword (for theming) which will allow you to display tags (used for the search system) for a specified city.
I would like to display tags from whatever city the visitor is from, using the same technique those ads use. But, I'm not sure what they do to get the city and state. I would like to do it using PHP, if possible. |
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i was thinking the ip address of the Cable modem.. thats what i thought it was
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I'm not a PHP guy, but this should work to get the IP address.
$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; Using the IP to find their location will cost you. http://labnol.blogspot.com/2005/11/find-visitor-locations-from-ip-address.html You can http://www.ip2location.com/ip-country-region-city.aspx, which is around $200 / year. |
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Thanks Spider, the first link looks like what I was looking for.
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Edited by
Sumthingdifferent
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Thu 02/07/08 06:08 PM
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I have Elgg installed, and there's a keyword (for theming) which will allow you to display tags (used for the search system) for a specified city. I would like to display tags from whatever city the visitor is from, using the same technique those ads use. But, I'm not sure what they do to get the city and state. I would like to do it using PHP, if possible. Sorry, not much help on this one. I know you can pull up many IP conect stations from the IP, but then the hackers/spammers use proxys and can "hide" and make it look like they are porting out from someplace else. So to get something 'accurate" from "random feeds"..have no real clue. 
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