GeoLocator for Joomla

This extension provide support for geolocation per IP address. It does not contain IP data within the installer, but rather a link to install them from the author - MaxMind.com. If you decide to use the GeoIP lite database, you must comply with MaxMind license.
All files in this extension are licensed under GPL license and are free to include in your extensions.
GeoLocator for Joomla is compatible with Joomla 1.5, Joomla 1.6, Joomla 1.7 and Joomla 2.5
We recommend to use this extension together with our flagship components One Page Checkout for Virtuemart 1 or 2 in case you do international shipping.
Direct download: com_geolocator.zip
This extension is an installer for MaxMind GeoIP Light Country database. It is focused on 3rd party extensions which require Geo Data by IP address.

This extension does not bring any functionality to the web administrator and it's only function is to provide programatical and database interface for Geo Data.

It creates a table #__geodata with IP ranges and country codes. It is optimized to install with ajax and with compatibility in mind.

USAGE from your extensions:

include_once(JPATH_SITE.DS.'administrator'.DS.'components'.DS.'com_geolocator'.DS.'assets'.DS.'helper.php');
if (class_exists('geoHelper'))
echo 'You are from: '.geoHelper::getCountry();
Updated installer and a bug in the helper file for ip2long (30.3.2012) 
We recommend to use this plugin together with our One Page Checkout and Default currency selector plugin for VirtueMart 1.1.x. 
- it adds a default country according to IP address to One Page Checkout