Country flag hack (unfinished!)

First things first:

This hack has never been finished!!!
Also, I have very little (or no) PHP and MySQL skills. If you are going to install this, remember that you do it at your own risk. I can't help you if things go wrong.
Backup your forumscripts and database first, as always!

Another thing, there are no easy wizards in this thing. Nothing is done for you, you have to do everything yourself, by hand. So far that includes updating all the members profiles with the country setting (not a pleasant job with 1600 members or so!)

Once you've done that (and it works), you're set though, since the new country field is required for all new registrants

Here's what I have done with our board:
http://www.paysforum.com/flaghack.txt

A live demo can be seen at
http://www.paysforum.com/forums

Again, backup your database first!

Hopefully somebody will be able to turn this thing into a solid hack

The showthread.php in your instruction is different from the showthread.php in version 2.0.3. I'm using 2.0.3 and the code:


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

is not there.

Hence, I don't know where to add:

// --- PaysForum.com vB Flag hack
$Country=$post[country];
$flag = "<img src=\"images/flags/$Country.gif\" alt=\"$Country\" border=\"0\">";
// --- PaysForum.com vB Flag hack





Pingu can you give me a hand? Your code is awesome and I want to make it work on my vb ASAP. Thanks!

[FWC]

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

I see that line of code in admin/functions.php. Several things moved from showthread.php to admin/functions.php if I'm not mistaken. I had to move a couple of the hacks I had installed to that file.

Thanks for the valuable info, FWC. Let me give it a crack and see if it works...

[AJR]

I just released a complete Country Flag Hack, with support for 221 countries (with associated large or small flags). Check it out here:

http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthrea...threadid=27044