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!

[Ninth Dimension]

06-29-03 at 02:59 AM ajk said this in Post #247
The users at Drumsmith.com really like the Country Flag hack.

Is there a way I can use the small flags in one place, then use the large in another?

Thanks

This is easy in theory, but will require some hard coded changes.

Basicly you find a 2nd set of flags, all with the same file names as the small set only with something like "big_" tapped onto the front of the filename, or maybe save the flags on your server space in a diffrent location (such as "images/largeflags/").

Once you have the files you need to find the file that controls whichever flag you want to be displayed as large. lets say for example it's the postbit flag you want displayed large, you need to open admin/functions.php and search for the following line:

  $flag = "<img src=\"images/flags/$Country.gif\" alt=\"$Countryalt\" align=\"absmiddle\" border=\"0\">";

All you need to do then is edit the line to point to your large image (be it adding the big_ or changing the path, etc..)

I hope this helps? Personally I recomend looking at the install file again and using it to make your edits, then sinatlling them, just be careful not to add/remove any needed quote marks.

good luck.

[Ninth Dimension]

I've noticed at least one flag is missing (maybe more) so i've decided to upload it here...

just download the image and save to your flag images directory. (you might need to rename it Europe.gif with a capital E).

[Alien]

Anyone ever figure out how to get this to display on the forumhome?

[Ninth Dimension]

Today at 09:26 PM Alien said this in Post #253
Anyone ever figure out how to get this to display on the forumhome?

get what to display? not much point in showing the user there own country flag because they already know it

[Bulleh]

strange but Wen i go to USER CP , and edit profile i can change my flag
but normall users cant, why is this?

[Kane Da Don]

great hack i installed it but for some reason it wont show in the postbit at all it shows in the getinfo and in the members but not in the postbit is their a way around this i put it in version 2.3.0

[Alien]

07-10-03 at 05:14 PM Ninth Dimension said this in Post #254
get what to display? not much point in showing the user there own country flag because they already know it

Well... umm... aww crumbs!

but what if everyone had a short-term memory and needed to be reminded? Yeah that's it!

[CRego3D]

06-16-03 at 01:29 PM CRego3D said this in Post #238
One last request

http://www.linuxcult.com/forum/membe...hat=datejoined

as you see, the "distro" images is where the flags woudl be .. is there a way I can "sort" by them ?

love this hack .. hehe

bump ?

basically, how can i "sort by country/flag" in the memberlist.php ..

[Logtenberg]

I upgraded my board to 2.3 from 2.03 and I had the country flag hack installed on my old version.

So all I did to get this this hack to work was change the code on the php pages and upload.

Now I get:

Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_STRING' in /home/ryan/public_html/forum/admin/functions.php on line 2248

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/ryan/public_html/forum/admin/functions.php:2248) in /home/ryan/public_html/forum/admin/functions.php on line 1668

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: set_bbarraycookie() in /home/ryan/public_html/forum/showthread.php on line 265

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One thing I also noticed while doing the search and replace,
was that in member.php the code that to replace didn't match the code in the instruction file i.e.:

find:

$templatesused .= "register_birthday,modifyprofile_custo....

on my member.php this line reads:

$templatesused = 'register_birthday,modifyprofile_custo...

Notice the missing period on my member.php

I went ahead and replaced this code anyways... could this be the problem? do I need to remove the period?

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UPDATE:

I removed the country flag hack code from member.php and uploaded it. The above error no longer appeared, in the postbits the flag for each member appeared properly, the registration process worked with the flag... So I know the problem must be with the code on member.php

Thanks

[reismarktq2]

My users are having a problem where the flags they've purchased (I'm using Lesane's Store Hack and the flag add-on in conjunction with this hack) are disappearing at random intervals. I have no idea what's causing it. Some people are saying it happens when they update their profiles; others say it's also happening at other times.

I'm running vB 2.3.0 and in addition to the store stuff, I've also added a bunch of flags to the original set (including some customs and the entire set of U.S. states).

Can anyone help out?