Forum Display Enhancements - Country Display for Who's Online

*** Staff note: The author of this modification has passed away in a diving accident. We wish his family all strength in dealing with this traggic issue. ***

Country Display for Who's Online

What does this do?

It adds another column to your Who's Online display, with the country where the user is logging on from. You can choose either the name, the flag or both. You can also decide which users can see this information.

How about a quick summary of features?

Country display can be admin/moderator only, or available for everyone to see
You can display the country name, a flag, or both. You can use alternative flag sets if you want
Adds minimal overhead, no additional queries
Works on 3.6.6, 3.6.7 and should work for future versions as well. Will not work on versions prior to this. There is a manual file hack for previous versions here (unsupported).
Country information is provided by the GLA (Geographic Location Awareness) mod. Therefore updates to GLA will automatically provide improvements to any mod using GLA.

How do I install?

1. Install GLA first. You can find it here. It's easy and takes a minute.
2. Download and install the enclosed .xml file via adminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product -> Import.

How do I configure it?

By default it will display only the country name to admin, super moderators and moderators. You can change this under vBulletin Options -> Who's Online Options. Be sure to check these options and click "save", even if you haven't changed anything. See attached screenshots.

Before posting on this thread:

If your issue concerns questions about country detection, the accuracy of the database, etc - please post your question on the GLA thread instead. Please only post issues here concerning the Who's Online display itself.

Please click install. Support requests from people who have not clicked install may not be answered.

Version history:
V1.0 - (07.07.07) Initial release

[msalman]

^i just installed the hack so i guess it'll take some time before new sessions are added. I'll keep an eye on session table. Otherwise, i guess i'll contact you again, lol

[bongwater]

THAT WORKED!!! thanks I see the flags with the country names now

Originally Posted by mfyvie

I believe that this post on the GLA thread will solve your issue.



By flags I take it you mean flags AND country names (rather than just flags). In any case, if your own IP address isn't being found in the database, you may have the same issue as winpro19 - so I strongly suggest you check out the same post I linked for him above.

[winpro19]

Yup worked! Once again I would like to say awesome support and an even better plug-in!

Thanks!!

[ForYou]

Hello ,

There is alot of User can't show country for they IP ,

Please look At attch , and what about the local host there is user have ip "Local Host" !!

Regards

[mfyvie]

I looked at your attachment, but most of it was blanked out.

I can't help it if there is a user that shows as localhost - this has nothing to do with this mod - it would have showed as localhost without this mod anyway.

Your users may not be showing up with a country because you've only just installed this mod and haven't given it enough time to populate the session table. Or maybe these addresses aren't found in the database (which is an issue for the database, rather than this hack).

[Poppet]

Installed both mods in about 5 minutes, working great... Thank you...

[yaoren]

Installed and working great... thanks

[ForYou]

Hello ,

there is alot of Ip's can't show the country name Like 62.135.100.?? this Ip in eygpt ,

there is alot of Ip's in eygpt can't listed in the Database ,

is there any help ,

REgards

[mfyvie]

Originally Posted by ForYou

there is alot of Ip's in eygpt can't listed in the Database ,

Yes, how to manually add entries to the database was covered earlier in this thread. Please go back and read some of the earlier posts for help.

[PixelFx]

nice mod trying it out for our site