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!

[Jafo232]

if (!in_array($country, $valid_countries)) { $userdata->set('usergroupid', 4); }

To:

if (in_array($country, $valid_countries)) { $userdata->set('usergroupid', 4); }

There, you now have a blacklist..

[Nickbe]

Ok i amde the change and it worked perfectly. Thanks for that.

[pjcnlv]

I am seeing exactly the same with no info why in the logs.

Mod is disabled for now.

Originally Posted by The_Hawk

Seems new registrations aren't happening anymore with users getting a blank screen on this page after filling in all the registration info and hitting OK:

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/regi...p?do=addmember

I'm sure this mod WAS working fine with 4.0.2 PL4 but has since given up the ghost.

As first I thought it was a vBulletin problem so I upgraded to 4.0.3, still no working. I then through it was the vbSEO I installed last week (3.0.5 RC3) so I uninstalled that, still no dice. Then I turned off the country mod and BAM, users can register again.

Re-installed vbSEO, still working.
Uninstalled Country Mod (rather than just disabled) - still working.
Re Installed Country Mod - Not working.
I have re-uploaded the zone files, I have re-uploaded the mod files - still not working
Disabled country mod - working again.

Is there a common fault here or is it just something I have done wrong?

(on a side note all of this DID happen on or about when I install vbSEO so I'm still thinking that's the problem, although technically by completely uninstalling it should have solved the problem... but it didn't)

[Nickbe]

Mine works fine on 4.0.3

[The_Hawk]

Originally Posted by pjcnlv

I am seeing exactly the same with no info why in the logs.

Mod is disabled for now.

As below, my problem was showing in the logs and was a memory out issue, still seems to be going well, no issues since more RAM was allocated

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.

Originally Posted by The_Hawk

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

[amorosso]

While uploading I was watching someone from China trying to register. Not anymore, Thank you very much.. Installed and working on 4.0.8

[PSimmo]

doesnt work for me on 4.08.
Uploaded the all the zone files into plugins/zones and it still says I need to download the zone files.

[RichieBoy67]

Will this work in 4.1?

Thanks

[The_Hawk]

I'm running 4.1.0 PL2 and it's ticking along fine.

[deschutes]

This mod is exactly what I have been looking for. I made the change shown in post #51 to make it more of a blacklist (CN,RU,PK). If you do any further development it would be cool to provide a switch in the options to make it either a whitelist or blacklist. It appears to work just fine with VB 4.0.8. Hopefully this will eliminate the flood of spam registrations I have been getting from Pakistan lately.

Thanks!