extending woocommerce’s existing geolocation functions

  • Hi Benjamin,

    I’m trying to see how I can use your plugin to extend/override the existing Woocommerce geolocation and add in data acquired from the sources your plugin provides access to. In this case, all I want is the state to be added (mostSpecificSubdivision->isoCode) along with the country that’s provided by the inbuilt MaxMind DB.

    The reason I want to extend the existing functionality rather than use your plugins data directly is that I want to use a shipping calculator plugin that references the in-built data already.

    I’m looking at the woocommerce source files and finding it hard to decipher what would accomplish this. The only filter I’ve found is ‘woocommerce_geolocate_ip’, but that only seems to affect the country code. I know it stores the geolocation data in a hashed cookie, but that also seems mystically hard to access and modify.

    Any leads would be appreciated for the best method to accomplish this with your great plugin!

    Thanks,

    Mik

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  • Plugin Author Benjamin Pick

    (@benjaminpick)

    Mixing the data from Geolocation with the one provided from WooCommerce doesn’t make too much sense I suppose – what if one source says it’s “Italy” and the other source says it’s “Germany, Berlin”. You’d need one “true” datasource.
    So I guess what you are trying to do is replacing the geolocation mechanicsm in WooCommerce with the one from this plugin via a WooCommerce filter, is this correct? I don’t know how the shipping calculator works.

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