Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Moderate New Registrations Based On IP Geographical Origin

This mod will put any new registration into moderation so you can either approve or deny based on the physical location of the IP address. If the IP is located in a country that you white list, the registration will go through as normal.

This may be different for everyone else, but on my forums, I have yet to have a Russian IP sign up for anything other than posting SPAM. This plugin has moderated them all!

I hope to have time to eventually expand this to do other things. This also works on 3.8.x.

You MUST download the zone files from this site:

http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/

The free license does not allow me to include them with the product, plus it is better to download the latest files anyway.

No real screenshots to show here, sorry.

Changelog:

12/20/2008

• Coded the routine in, instead of using external whois program.
• Now compatible with Windows
• (39 download of 1.0)

2/11/2009

• 77 downloads at this point
• Rewrote application to use zone files rather than relying on Arin

12/27/2009

• Verified it works for 4.0

To upgrade, READ THE README, and re-install product (select overwrite).

Don't forget to:

CLICK INSTALL!

Developed by a Lampwright!

[The_Hawk]

Originally Posted by Marv

I see the developer wasn?t responding here for quite a while. Can anyone confirm

• what The_Hawk mentioned above ?
• that this mod works with 4.0.3 ?

Not so much. With 4.0.3 PL1 it still seems to prevent anyone from registering at all. After filling in the registration details and hitting submit I just get a white page here: http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/regi...p?do=addmember and nothing happens.

I'm still working my way through the other mods I have installed to see if there is a conflict, although nothing has come up yet.

VBSEO is updated to 3.5.0 Gold, and I have tried re-installing again today, still no dice. Does anyone have this working with 4.0.3 PL1?


EDIT: To confirm, I have now been through ALL of my mods and disabled everything and it still doesn't work so I'm not sure what's up here.

[Jafo232]

I am using it on 4.0.3 with no issues, so I cannot speak to what is happening to "The Hawks" server. A blank screen is useless information. You have to look in your server log to find out WHAT the error is. It could be something as simple as not uploading the files properly.

Short answer, yes, it works for 4.0.3...

[The_Hawk]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

You have to look in your server log to find out WHAT the error is.

No problems, been getting round to doing a little more digging, really should have just started in the logs, but then I'm very much still learning as I move along.

It seems it might just be as simple as an out of memory error:

[Thu May 27 09:58:58 2010] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 88 bytes) in /var/www/vhosts/vwwatercooled.org.au/httpdocs/plugins/whois.php on line 35, referer: http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/register.php

We absolutely have to move to a bigger better server VERY soon anyway, so hopefully that will fix this problem too.

[Jafo232]

Your memory_limit setting in your php.ini file is rather low (32 Megabytes). If you bump that up and restart apache, the issue will most likely go away. I would try 64M.

[The_Hawk]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

Your memory_limit setting in your php.ini file is rather low (32 Megabytes). If you bump that up and restart apache, the issue will most likely go away. I would try 64M.

Many thanks, that did the trick and it all seems to be working under 4.0.3 PL1 here now

[Nickbe]

Wouldn't it be much better to have a field for countries we want to moderate as opposed to a field for countries we don't? (or have both?)

I mean I would like to moderate Russia and China only. So I am not going to spend 3 hours listing the country code for the other 200 countries I want to let through.

I know I can't do a better job and that I shouldn't complain about free stuff but I think it is logical.

Basically we have two fields....

Field 1 : Countries to let through without moderation
Field 2 : Countries to moderate

You leave field 1 blank let through without moderation all countries aside from the ones in field 2.

[Jafo232]

There are modifications that do this, read the entire thread..

[Nickbe]

I did read the whole thread and I read it again cannot see anything related to what I suggested.

[Jafo232]

It makes no sense to have the two fields you suggest. If you have a field to let users through without moderation that is the same as creating a white list. The second list does the same exact thing.

I guess you did not look hard tho:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....1&postcount=24

[Nickbe]

I am not talking about a whitelist. I am talking about a black list.

There are roughly 200 countries in the world. I want to black list 2 of those countries..... Russia and China. Under the current system that requires me to manually whitelist 198 countries. If instead there was was blacklist field I would simply have to blacklist 2 countries.