Version: 1.00, by mfyvie
Developer Last Online: May 2008
Category: Forum Display Enhancements -
Version: 3.6.7
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Released: 07-06-2007
Last Update: 07-07-2007
Installs: 282
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*** 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
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winpro19, based on what you've told me and the screenshots you've provided, it sounds to me like you've disabled the product "Country display for who's online.". Please go to the products list and confirm that this product is not disabled. Then go to the plugin lists and scroll down until you see the plugins for this product - there should be three of them, and they all should be enabled.
The automatic template changes that are done are very simple, so simple in fact that I didn't think it was necessary to post the manual template changes. However, the string that it is trying to match in the WHOSONLINE and whosonlinebit templates is as follows:
Code:
<if condition="$vboptions['showimicons']">
Please confirm that this exact text is in both those templates. Even people with heavily modified templates should have that text, and these templates haven't changed since v3.6.0. If that text is there, the automatic template changes should match it and replace it, then a column should appear (providing all the options are set to yes, as your screenshot shows)
Hmm, I verified that the product is enabled and <if condition="$vboptions['showimicons']"> does exist in both those templates. Also in plugin manager there are three plugins for this product. I'm a bit confused regarding this....I tried default vb style as well and still no luck...
Hmm, I verified that the product is enabled and <if condition="$vboptions['showimicons']"> does exist in both those templates. Also in plugin manager there are three plugins for this product. I'm a bit confused regarding this....I tried default vb style as well and still no luck...
I believe that this post on the GLA thread will solve your issue.
Quote:
Originally Posted by bongwater
Im running 3.6.7, installed this after installing GLA. Still I dont see the column of flags....
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.
Hooah!, can we have the same idea but in postbit?, display in every post the flag of the ip wich the user has posted?
That's a little trickier (to do properly), but the idea is that now any developer can easily do this (you might have seen me saying exactly the same thing earlier in the thread). That's the whole point of GLA - to enable others to easily build country-aware applications.
oke you've right. country table is there but no flag no country name on WOL.
In admincp is set the show... again there is created "COUNTRY" in WOL
but no FLAG no COUNTRYNAME.
installed exact like .txt.
I've the same problem. I checked, the table ip2country exists in database and it is populated/installed correctly but for some reasons in WOL the column "Country" is created but no flag or country name. I suppose it is getting null values when it go and look for in table and hence no value is displayed in "country" column in WOL.
I just checked session table in database and noticed that for some sessionhash it doesn't have country_iso2, country_iso3, and country. so i guess this is the reason why it gets null values
Is there a way to fix this problem? Thanking in advance!
I've the same problem. I checked, the table ip2country exists in database and it is populated/installed correctly but for some reasons in WOL the column "Country" is created but no flag or country name. I suppose it is getting null values when it go and look for in table and hence no value is displayed in "country" column in WOL.
I just checked session table in database and noticed that for some sessionhash it doesn't have country_iso2, country_iso3, and country. so i guess this is the reason why it gets null values
Is there a way to fix this problem? Thanking in advance!
It takes some time after you first install it for new sessions to be established (like 15-30 minutes). Not every IP will be recognised, but there should be around 98%. If you have some sessions in the session table coming up with the country name, then it should work. You should have at least some countries showing up in the who's online list? Have you checked all the pages? Or are you saying that you have a country column, but it is totally empty? I presume you also checked your WOL settings in adminCP and clicked on save (even if you didn't need to, this is a bug in VB)
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07-11-2007, 06:13 AM
