Forum Display Enhancements - GLA - Geographic Location Awareness for vBulletin

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GLA - Geographic Location Awareness for vBulletin

What does this do?

GLA adds an additional layer of information into your vBulletin site (visitors' country name). GLA doesn't output anything to the user, or change any display on your forum, it simply adds additional information which is then available to other programs or mods.

But what can I use it for?

There are many applications, but the main idea is that this mod enables other mod writers to very easily add location awareness functions into their own mods. If you were thinking of writing a mod to display a person's registration country in the postbit, it's now very easy to do.

Why should I download and install this?

Unless you are also going to install one of the other mods which requires GLA, there isn't much point. If you are a developer, you might install this to add functionality to your own mods.

How will I update this?

Easy - you can update the database used for matching country names to IP addresses yourself - it's very easy. Full instructions are provided in the install.txt file inside the zip file.

How do I install?

Download the zip file and look for install.txt. But basically it's easy - upload the contents of the upload folder to your forum directory, and import the enclosed .xml file. That's it.

How do I know if it is working?

A test script is provided that will test every aspect of your GLA installation to inform you of any potential problems. Please see the installation instructions for information about this test script.

What about flags?

This includes flags, meaning that other mods won't have to package flags. You can change the flags if you like, instructions are provided.



How about a quick summary of features?

• Fast - GLA adds almost no overhead. This is important for big sites. Only a single query is executed each time a session is created
• Transparent - new variables are automatically available to any part of your site
• Updateable - you can update the database yourself
• Free - a free database is used
• Accurate - the database provider claims 98% accuracy
• Configuration - absolutely nothing to configure for this mod (since it just provides data to other mods)
• Extendible - GLA may encourage other mod developers to add location features. Why not ask the author of your favourite mod to use GLA? Were you thinking of making a mod which uses location data, but didn't know how? GLA solves the problem for you - now all you need to do is read a variable
• Easy developer information - hints and tips are provided with the zip file to make life easier for developers

Is there a list of mods that currently use GLA?



Yes, a list will be maintained here. Please let me know if you find a mod which requires GLA that isn't listed, so I can add it. The current list of GLA mods is as follows:

• Country Display for Who's Online
• Check Proxy RBL on Registration (unsupported, hack for an existing mod)

Before posting on this thread:

Please post on this thread only for issues relating to GLA itself. If you have an issue that concerns a mod that uses GLA, please post on the appropriate thread for that mod. If you have an issue which concerns the underlying functionality of GLA itself, then post here.

Even though this is a required mod from another mod and may be fairly boring, please click install if you are using it. Support requests from people who have not clicked install may not be answered.

No screen shots for this mod, since there's nothing to see.

Version history
1.0 (07.07.07) Initial version

[solong2]

i did not get the option in whois online

[mfyvie]

No you won't. This mod doesn't do anything to the Who's Online. I suggest you read the instructions and click install if you'd like me to support you.

If you are referring to the who's online mod - you are on the wrong thread.

[steven s]

Originally Posted by solong2

i did not get the option in whois online

You need to install.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=151600

[Ahsin1]

I Install It now my forum not working when i open i get this msg

Warning: Unknown(/home/pakcan/public_html/includes/gla.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /global.php(356) : eval()'d code on line 80

Fatal error: (null)() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/pakcan/public_html/includes/gla.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/pakcan/public_html/global.php(356) : eval()'d code on line 80

[mfyvie]

Originally Posted by Ahsin1

Fatal error: (null)() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/pakcan/public_html/includes/gla.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/pakcan/public_html/global.php(356) : eval()'d code on line 80

Did you upload the files to their correct locations? Did you put gla.php in your includes directory, and can you verify that it is there?

You can disable the product until you resolve the problem. Please check the instructions again to make sure you've followed them.

[Ahsin1]

Originally Posted by mfyvie

Did you upload the files to their correct locations? Did you put gla.php in your includes directory, and can you verify that it is there?

You can disable the product until you resolve the problem. Please check the instructions again to make sure you've followed them.

I Unistall It But it not working i am getting that massege . when i open forums but admin cp is working fine

[mfyvie]

Originally Posted by Ahsin1

I Unistall It But it not working i am getting that massege . when i open forums but admin cp is working fine

If you really have installed the product called "Geographic Location Awareness" then it would not be possible for you to see any messages generated by the product, since it's plugin would be inactive and removed.

I think you've uninstalled the wrong product. Check again.

[mfyvie]

Ok, I've refreshed the installation file. Only 2 minor changes (no need to do anything if you've already installed!)

1. Added the following message during installation:

Error: file includes/gla.php not found. Installation will not continue. This error is most likely caused because you did not follow the installation instructions and upload the required files first.

I've also changed the require_once to include_once in the plugin. Hopefully this error message will make whoever realise that they need to read the installation instructions (hopefully!)

2. I added the following text to the instructions file:

People using multiple styles
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If you are using multiple styles, you may have more than one "misc" directory for images. In this case you should also copy the flags directory to your other styles (under the "misc") directory. This allows you to use different sets of flags for different styles.

[projectego]

Awesome! Thank you very much for sharing.

[shamda]

I installed this and also installed the addon to show the countries and flags on my whos online page and it works great, except that a couple of isps do not show including mine! I use comcast in Florida and would think it would be in the database, but i guess it is not. Is there anyway to add isps that come up blank with the correct info for them?