Country Flag Hack v2.0

UPDATED TO v2.1 - 3/11/2002

Version 2.1 - March 11, 2002
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Well, it's been awhile! I sorta disappeared there while
doing many other things! I guess v2.0 that was supposed
to use the same images as vBStats didn't go as planned
(thanks Bane ). I removed this hack from my site
awhile ago when I was having some other problems. I have
finally decided to add it back and it worked great in 2.2.0,
and I'm sure it will work in all other 2.2.x versions.

Changes:
- Updated to work with vBulletin 2.2.x
- Added Display Flag in Member List - Thanks Orca
- Used slightly larger flag images by X-Fan (I did run
them through Ulead's 16-color optimization which cut
the total file size from 271K to 54K!)
- Added 'align="absmiddle"' to image tag for text vertical centering
- Fixed Bane's name in docs below where I botched it up!
- Support for 280 Countries


Version 2.0 - September 6, 2001
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Changes from v1.0:
- Images have been changed from country codes to country names
- Flags will now have their ALT text as country name.
- Modified Hack to work with Bane's vbStats hack that will be released in the future.
- Added CP Addon by Stasik and modded it for new country names
- Changed country field in USER table from CHAR(2) to VARCHAR(50)
- Support for 226 countries

Known Problems:
- Countries with a dash (-) or comma (,) will not show up
automatically in as selected when you or the member edit
their profile (Congo, Korea, and Micronesia are the only 3)
Anyone know a fix please let me know.
- The 'modifyprofile_country' template needs to be changed
to a default original templatesetid of -1 (changed templates
have the templatesetid set to 2) or else the Admin CP addon
will not work (Any ideas why?). To do this, use phpMyAdmin
and run this query:
UPDATE template SET templatesetid="-1" where title="modifyprofile_country"
This will move the template from the custom to default templates
and will be found in the 'User Option Templates' group.

Any questions or comments can be posted here. Enjoy!

[ariaforums]

$post[joindate]=vbdate($registereddateformat,$post[joindate]);

I still cannot find this in adminfunctions.php

[Bane]

Originally posted by ariaforums
$post[joindate]=vbdate($registereddateformat,$post[joindate]);

I still cannot find this in adminfunctions.php

Try looking for it without spaces

$post[joindate]=vbdate($registereddateformat,$post[joindate]);

If that doesn't work try looking for

		} else {
			$postsperday = sprintf("%.2f",($post[posts] / $jointime));
		}

its just below that.

[Lesane]

Originally posted by AJR
Version 2.0 - September 6, 2001
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This is the second release of the Country Hack. I have
converted it to make it work with Bain's vBStats hack
that will be released sometime in the near future. Bain
and I have been working together because both the Country
Hack and vBStats Hack require all the flags. We didn't
want you to have to have double images with different
names (which would mean over 450 files in the flags
directory!)

By changing the flag names from their country code to
their country name, it is now possible to have the ALT
tag show the name of the country when you put your mouse
pointer over the flag image.

Changes from v1.0:
- Images have been changed from country codes to country names

Loox like a great hack but i dont understand one thingy that you said above. You said:

We didn't want you to have to have double images with different names (which would mean over 450 files in the flags
directory!)

But the flags of the vbstats hack of bane have country codes and you use the country names
So we have now double images with different names or do i c this wrong?

[Bane]

The problem was that in the original version of the flags hack there were all lowercase flag names etc.. then these. Orignally the same system as is used here was used for vbstats however vbstats ended up being a little too popular so for language abstraction purposes I decided to make the switch to country codes. (Now its much easier to change the country names for other language users of vbstats) There is an easy way to change the image settings for flags in vbstats if you want to use the same set. Or optionally you can wait for the next release of vbstats where I will release a compatible Flag Hack if AJ isnt back yet.

[Lesane]

Okey, that makes things clear. Do you know already the deadline of the next Vbstats release?

[aldamon]

nm

[xug]

I got it finally working, thanks to all who did a great job here !

[xug]

I thought that everything was working, but there is a little bug.

When people want to sign up and they fill up all the required information right and submit it, it will give an error message that they have to check again because something wasn't filled up right.

I did it myself also a few times and for sure I did what was required but gave me the error too.

When I installed this hack I did every file step by step and uploaded it back to my site, checked if there where no errors and all looked ok.

So I think there must be something wrong with the last file, register.php

Can please somebody advise me what this could be.

Thank you.

[nighteyes]

Yes, you got it in one. The error is in register.php, I had the same problem. Just download the updated instructions for the 2.2.1 sourcecode a few messages up kindly put together by a generous soul. Extract the original register.php from the ZIP (if needed) and then apply the instructions in step 4 all over again... upload and it *should* work. It did for me.

[aldamon]

There are actually 3 updated sections for 2.2.1. I noticed in my previous text file that I used two different phrases to indicate changes, *** Updated for vB 2.2.1 *** AND *** Modified for vB2.2.1 ***. I just changed the text file so all 3 changes are marked by:

*** Modified for vb 2.2.1 ***

Here it is again and remember there are 3 changes. I have fully updated the affected sections with the 2.2.1 source code.

Enjoy!