This is a cool hack, I like the things it does. It would be cool if it would also track hits to the forums from not only countries, but states also, so I could get an idea of what states were visiting the forum.
Also, I know a couple people have asked about the performance hit this hack causes. Well I have found it to be significant. The tracking system causes a 20% - 40% CPU spike whenever a page is loaded. Just a brief one, but a spike nontheless. I am running my server from a P3-700 with 256 RAM.
People who are paying web hosts to run their forums and their servers may not be too concerned with this, but others who are running it locally might think twice.
So, besides the change in CPU demand, this hack is pretty cool.
Nice work, and thanks to you Bane.
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