# Obtain viewer's ip, location and more

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/obtain-viewers-ip-location-and-more/180627>\
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**Created:** [March 2, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/obtain-viewers-ip-location-and-more/180627 "2006-03-02T01:06:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![iwek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4da419/32.png) [@iwek](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/iwek)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/obtain-viewers-ip-location-and-more/180627/1 "2006-03-02T01:06:49Z")

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I would like to write a flash program that obtains the viewer’s IP address, then obtains the viewer’s state, and then according to the state it shows a particular picture. So if I put this flash on my website and someone from Massachussetts looks at my website they will see a picture of a MASS license plate, but if someone from NJ looks at the same site they will see a picture of a NJ license plate.

I would appreciate any input from anone on this. How hard is it this to make? Where do I start? ETC.

I am familiar with some PHP, HTML, java-script and I have done alot Flash graphics work but I have not done any ActionScript which will need to be used here. Hope someone will respond.