Need help

["E. FROUNI" <fr...@bledo.net>]

I'm writing a new module in C that
communicates with a mysql database and grab geographic data according to the
webclient's IP address. for the moment all the functions are in php code but
my goal is to make these functions available and easy to use whatever the
Imagine that you write a new apache module and you implement a function that
returns geographic data (city, latitude, longitude...) of the current user. the goal is to make this
function profitable for users who pragram in php, asp, perl or java by using
something like "HTTP_LOCATION", "HTTP_CITY" headers

Or for users who build simple html
websites by using something like <LOCATION> or <CITY IP"11.11.11.11">  in
thier html code.

any help please ?

thx

Re: Need help

[David Burry <db...@tagnet.org>]

How about simply setting environment variables or something like that instead?  That way it's available to CGI, SSI, PHP, etc...  (SSI being an extrememly efficient and standard way to access the information).

In fact, using mod_perl and the Apache Perl module to manipulate the Request object it's possible to write that functionality in Perl instead of C, but if you prefer C it may run faster.

Dave

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: E. FROUNI 
  To: dev@httpd.apache.org 
  Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 5:29 AM
  Subject: Need help


  I'm writing a new module in C that
  communicates with a mysql database and grab geographic data according to the
  webclient's IP address. for the moment all the functions are in php code but
  my goal is to make these functions available and easy to use whatever the
  Imagine that you write a new apache module and you implement a function that
  returns geographic data (city, latitude, longitude...) of the current user. the goal is to make this
  function profitable for users who pragram in php, asp, perl or java by using
  something like "HTTP_LOCATION", "HTTP_CITY" headers

  Or for users who build simple html
  websites by using something like <LOCATION> or <CITY IP"11.11.11.11">  in
  thier html code.

  any help please ?

  thx