Support for Aelia Tax display by country

Hi,

how does that tax display works ? how did it detect the country ?

Best regards,

Hi,

The Tax display by country detects country by geoip, at least I suppose so because it uses the Geolite database by Maxmind. The plugin is compatible with Aelia currency switcher which we also use. Both plugins use the same cookie “aelia_customer_country” to set the country and therefore I suppose that the plugin is supported on you side I could be wrong though.

Best regards

Hi,

no , it won’t work that way

in order to vary on countries , you need to have something to tell the cache engine to vary it , outside of PHP code

if you are server admin , then you can enable GeoIP module for the webserver, not the PHP one

if not , you can only do it with certain CDN, like QUIC cloud or CloudFlare that sends a country code HTTP header for cache engine to vary on it

Best regards,

Hi again,

but what is the different with the Aelia currency switcher plugin which you support? It sets the currency based on GeoIP and you can vary on currency. The cookie is aelia_cs_selected_currency. Isn’t it the same principle for the Aelia Tax display by country which sets the cookie aelia_customer_country?

Best regards

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by mats1.

Hi,

because the currency vary is based on cookie on that aelia class file as you mentioned in the first ticket

it does NOT require to detect the visitor’s country

for example I am in Euro country where VAT is 20% , and I cached a page, then page displays 20% TAX , then let’s say , you from EUR country with VAT 15% , but since the page is already cached with cookie = eur , it won’t send/hit PHP again

Best regards,

Aha so you can’t cache a combination of cookies? like this:

aelia_cs_selected_currency = Eur
aelia_customer_country = FR

aelia_cs_selected_currency = Eur
aelia_customer_country = DK

The aelia_customer_country is also in the class

class Aelia_CurrencySwitcher {
	private static $_cookies = array(
		'aelia_cs_selected_currency',
		'aelia_customer_country',
		'aelia_customer_state',
		'aelia_tax_exempt',
	);

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by mats1.

Hi,

no , in LSCWP 3rd party support file , it only varies the currency cookie

and that , back to the original trick I have mentioned , you need to have something that is NOT PHP (because once page is cached already , PHP won’t be invoked again) to tell the cache engine that it needs to fire the PHP again , in which , either a HTTP header comes from CDN , or GeoIP module on webserver (not the GeoIP in PHP)

Best regards,

Ok, thanks a lot for your answer.