Country name in codeigniter url - codeigniter

Question

My question is how to append country name in codeigniter url?
Lets say my website is http://mywebsite.com and I am opening the website from Canada so my url should be http://mywebsite.com/canada.
Meaning I just want to append the country name in the url, nothing change except this. I have read about routes of codeigniter, I have googled it but all in vain.
If anyone have a clue how to do this please let me know.

Answer 1

I guess you'd do that with a IP lookup to guess the country based on the request IP address ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']). Mapping the IP address to a location is pretty well documented. Once you have the country, redirect to the correct controller method.
That what you're looking for?

Answer 2

This is like for language code in url.
With my solution you can put any segment in your uri and hide it to CI.
http://site.com/page.html will be equal to http://site.com/canada/page.html and vice versa.
set_country_uri.php
//App location
$ci_directory = '/ci/';
//countries
$countries = array('canada','france');
//default country
$country = 'canada';
foreach( $countries as $c )
{
if(strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], $ci_directory.$c)===0)
{
//Store country founded
$country = $c;
//Delete country from URI, codeigniter will don't know is exists !
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = substr_replace($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '', strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/'.$c)+1, strlen($c)+1);
break;
}
}
//Add the country in URI, for site_url() function
$assign_to_config['index_page'] = $country."/";
//store country founded, to be able access it in your app
define('COUNTRY', $country);
index.php
<?php
require('set_country_uri.php');
//ci code ...
So in your CI code use COUNTRY constant to know wich is used. And make your code like routing without take in consideration the country in the uri.