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Thread ID: 71805	2006-08-17 11:25:00	Dual-websites question	Billy T (70)	Press F1

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479016	2006-08-17 11:25:00	Hi Team I'm helping a friend develop words for a website selling baby related products, and the main market will be the US. NZ, Australia and the UK are also important but we have the interesting dilemma that the US use Mom and Mommy almost exclusively, while the UK/Australia and NZ mainly use Mum and Mummy. It is essential that buyers associate with the product range at an emotional level, so using mum/mummy might be a put-off, but so might the local and UK markets be put off by mom & mommy. Is it possible to run two sets of mirrored pages on the site, one for mommies and the other for mummies with the right pages presented by detecting the origin of the connection. That way a US browser would only see the mommy pages and the others would see the mummy pages. Or am I so far off the planet that you'd need the Hubble to see me. Ignorance is bliss! :D Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
479017	2006-08-17 11:29:00	I'd substitute mum/mom for parent/mother or in today's environment 'caregiver' ... This doesn't answer your question though :waughh:	Jester (13)
479018	2006-08-17 11:41:00	And in todays permissive society, "mommy" might even be a "he" .... (some time after the birth that is)	godfather (25)
479019	2006-08-17 11:49:00	Hello Billy T. I have tried "googling" out for you to see if there are any javascript codes out there that can cater your needs, and I think there is one that might interest you: www.javascriptkit.com The script supplied by the URL above detect the language of the user's computer rather than location. However, I am not sure if it could detect the difference between New Zealand English and US English. Hope this helps. Cheers :)	Renmoo (66)
479020	2006-08-17 12:02:00	Here is an idea (www.geobytes.com) One of the problems relying on browser language settings is that alot of people probably are set to US English if using Windows as this is the default for most installations. So hence it is a better idea to match their IP Address to a location (reverse DNS could be a problem in some cases). If I was doing it myself I'd just use PHP Classes that must be out there and change templates as appropiate for US English versus proper English.	gibler (49)
479021	2006-08-17 21:02:00	Hi Billy I have a similar issue for a baby related site (showing $US, $NZ or $AU), we use the "ip to country" database to figure out which country they are from, which helps us to set the variable for which price to use it takes the IP address and figures out what country it is assigned to (its about 95% accurate), but you will need to update the database every month as these ip ranges do change ip-to-country.webhosting.info Is the site dynamically generated? If so you can just create a variable and make it global so that you won't need to requery the database everytime they go to a new page Something like if (($country == $NZ) ||($country == $AU)) { $mother == 'mum'; $mothers == 'mommy'; } else { $mother == 'mum'; $mothers == 'mummy'; }	Morgenmuffel (187)
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