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[tedd]

At 2:42 AM -0400 5/30/11, 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

David:

Certainly a Javascript program can call a php script -- here's a demo:

http://webbytedd.com/b/timed-php/

There's a description at the site.

Cheers,

tedd

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