Forum Display Enhancements - Country Display for Who's Online

*** Staff note: The author of this modification has passed away in a diving accident. We wish his family all strength in dealing with this traggic issue. ***

Country Display for Who's Online

What does this do?

It adds another column to your Who's Online display, with the country where the user is logging on from. You can choose either the name, the flag or both. You can also decide which users can see this information.

How about a quick summary of features?

Country display can be admin/moderator only, or available for everyone to see
You can display the country name, a flag, or both. You can use alternative flag sets if you want
Adds minimal overhead, no additional queries
Works on 3.6.6, 3.6.7 and should work for future versions as well. Will not work on versions prior to this. There is a manual file hack for previous versions here (unsupported).
Country information is provided by the GLA (Geographic Location Awareness) mod. Therefore updates to GLA will automatically provide improvements to any mod using GLA.

How do I install?

1. Install GLA first. You can find it here. It's easy and takes a minute.
2. Download and install the enclosed .xml file via adminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product -> Import.

How do I configure it?

By default it will display only the country name to admin, super moderators and moderators. You can change this under vBulletin Options -> Who's Online Options. Be sure to check these options and click "save", even if you haven't changed anything. See attached screenshots.

Before posting on this thread:

If your issue concerns questions about country detection, the accuracy of the database, etc - please post your question on the GLA thread instead. Please only post issues here concerning the Who's Online display itself.

Please click install. Support requests from people who have not clicked install may not be answered.

Version history:
V1.0 - (07.07.07) Initial release

[Ahsin1]

SOme one Reply to this


WHta is this man i import that Geo Location i got this msg when i open my forums

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


My forums :: www.desibollywood.org

[mfyvie]

@Ahsin1 - this is now the third time you've pasted exactly the same post. If you continue to do this, I will ignore you. I've already given you a solution (i.e. disable product and then follow the instructions) on the GLA thread, which is the correct thread.

This thread is for discussion of the who's online hack.

[Kaycee123]

Originally Posted by mfyvie

Yes that's the correct location. Two possibilities - file permissions error. Is the flags directory accessible from the outside world? Try manually typing in the full URL to one of the flags. The other possibilities is the style variable that points to the misc directory is set somewhere else. If you are using multiple styles and have multiple "misc" directories, then you can put the flags directory in there (this allows you to show different sets of flags according to different styles).

Thanks for the advice, they were in the wrong misc directory - I have a custom skin and when I moved the flags directory into the misc file for that skin it works great!! Thank you very much for your prompt response:up:

[Ahsin1]

Originally Posted by mfyvie

@Ahsin1 - this is now the third time you've pasted exactly the same post. If you continue to do this, I will ignore you. I've already given you a solution (i.e. disable product and then follow the instructions) on the GLA thread, which is the correct thread.

This thread is for discussion of the who's online hack.

OKk i wont ...i disable it now forums is working

[mfyvie]

Originally Posted by Kaycee123

Thanks for the advice, they were in the wrong misc directory - I have a custom skin and when I moved the flags directory into the misc file for that skin it works great!! Thank you very much for your prompt response:up:

I might put a note in the instructions for people with multiple styles to check that.

[shamda]

Very nice add on! I just installed it and it works great, except that there are one of two that do not show including mine! I am using comcast isp in florida, not sure why it does not show. I have it set to show flag and country. Right now there are 20 online and all show except mine and one other. I am the super admin for my board, not sure if that has something to do with it. Any ideas?

[mfyvie]

Originally Posted by shamda

Very nice add on! I just installed it and it works great, except that there are one of two that do not show including mine! I am using comcast isp in florida, not sure why it does not show. I have it set to show flag and country. Right now there are 20 online and all show except mine and one other. I am the super admin for my board, not sure if that has something to do with it. Any ideas?

That's an issue concerning GLA itself, rather than this mod. But if you look in the instructions for GLA you'll find the link to the site that provides the database. It's just bad luck that your ISP isn't in it.

[JD45]

Originally Posted by mfyvie

Ok, that's odd. If you have the session columns and they are populated, then it's working. Once that table is extended, those values are loaded automatically by vb. You may be putting it in a part of the template that doesn't display?

I just went to footer, and inserted $session[host] as the very first line. This displays the IP address and should work for you - it worked for me and has nothing at all to do with this mod.

Of course there's a remote possibility that your own session has the country field blank if it couldn't look up your address. Maybe you should double check the session table to find your own entry and check.

I put $session[host] in the first line of the footer and it did show up. I put $session[country] and nothing showed up.

I checked the session table again, and there is a country being shown for each session listed.

I'm at a loss..

It seems all the data is there, I just can't get it to display.

[steven s]

Originally Posted by JD45

It seems all the data is there, I just can't get it to display.

What if you do add this to a template?

<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/flags/$session[country_iso2].png" alt="$session[country]" />

Look at www.318ti.org/forum/
Do you see the US flag in the lower right of the header banner?

[mfyvie]

Originally Posted by JD45

I put $session[host] in the first line of the footer and it did show up. I put $session[country] and nothing showed up.

I checked the session table again, and there is a country being shown for each session listed.

I'm at a loss..

It seems all the data is there, I just can't get it to display.

All I can think of is that your session isn't matching. Post your current IP or PM it to me and I'll look it up to see if it is matching. I presume also you are running on 3.6.7.