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GLA - Geographic Location Awareness for vBulletin
Developer Last Online: May 2008 
This modification is in the archives.
*** 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. ***
GLA - Geographic Location Awareness for vBulletin What does this do? GLA adds an additional layer of information into your vBulletin site (visitors' country name). GLA doesn't output anything to the user, or change any display on your forum, it simply adds additional information which is then available to other programs or mods. But what can I use it for? There are many applications, but the main idea is that this mod enables other mod writers to very easily add location awareness functions into their own mods. If you were thinking of writing a mod to display a person's registration country in the postbit, it's now very easy to do. Why should I download and install this? Unless you are also going to install one of the other mods which requires GLA, there isn't much point. If you are a developer, you might install this to add functionality to your own mods. How will I update this? Easy - you can update the database used for matching country names to IP addresses yourself - it's very easy. Full instructions are provided in the install.txt file inside the zip file. How do I install? Download the zip file and look for install.txt. But basically it's easy - upload the contents of the upload folder to your forum directory, and import the enclosed .xml file. That's it. How do I know if it is working? A test script is provided that will test every aspect of your GLA installation to inform you of any potential problems. Please see the installation instructions for information about this test script. What about flags? This includes flags, meaning that other mods won't have to package flags. You can change the flags if you like, instructions are provided. How about a quick summary of features?
Yes, a list will be maintained here. Please let me know if you find a mod which requires GLA that isn't listed, so I can add it. The current list of GLA mods is as follows:
Please post on this thread only for issues relating to GLA itself. If you have an issue that concerns a mod that uses GLA, please post on the appropriate thread for that mod. If you have an issue which concerns the underlying functionality of GLA itself, then post here. Even though this is a required mod from another mod and may be fairly boring, please click install if you are using it. Support requests from people who have not clicked install may not be answered. No screen shots for this mod, since there's nothing to see. Version history 1.0 (07.07.07) Initial version Download Now Only licensed members can download files, Click Here for more information. Screenshots
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#2
07 Jul 2007, 12:50
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Reserved
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07 Jul 2007, 13:44
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Sounds like it could be a useful addition .. thanks mfyvie .. look forward to seeing future mods utilising this hack.
Clicked install thingy 
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07 Jul 2007, 14:12
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great to add addon like
 revent visitors to register from specific country
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07 Jul 2007, 14:21
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Originally Posted by yahoooh
Actually that was why I wrote GLA in the first place. However there is a mod that does almost the same thing here. Rather than re-invent the wheel I've sent the author a PM and asked him to consider adding functionality based on GLA, if installed.
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07 Jul 2007, 14:51
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Just a suggestion, but it would be very useful to be able to get statistics on what countries our members are from. This helps with targeting and selling ads.
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07 Jul 2007, 14:55
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Flawless install.
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07 Jul 2007, 15:00
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Originally Posted by agiacosa
Exactly, this system makes it very easy for you (or someone else) to build such a mod, using the variables that GLA provides.
GLA itself doesn't seem to add features by itself, it merely acts as a layer or additional information that other people can use to develop their own template edits or plugins. With your suggestion, it could be as simple as adding a plugin to run after GLA which just logs the country to a flat text file, or adding to the hook which fires after a member logs in could record this information just for members. I should point out however that webstats packages like awstats already provide this functionality based on your web logs. No members have liked this post.
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07 Jul 2007, 19:32
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I would love to have the country flag in the postbit template.
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07 Jul 2007, 19:37
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Originally Posted by 1996 328ti
There's a boatload of requests in the mod requests section for things like that. Maybe people should dig up those requests and add to them saying that it is now really easy for a developer (or anyone really) to make mods like that if they require GLA to be installed.
Hopefully this will inspire someone to write a mod like the one you suggested. I've thought of it too, but am too busy with other mods at the moment. No members have liked this post.
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07 Jul 2007, 20:29
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i did not get the option in whois online
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07 Jul 2007, 20:41
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No you won't. This mod doesn't do anything to the Who's Online. I suggest you read the instructions and click install if you'd like me to support you.
If you are referring to the who's online mod - you are on the wrong thread. No members have liked this post.
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07 Jul 2007, 22:28
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Originally Posted by solong2
You need to install.
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=151600 No members have liked this post.
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08 Jul 2007, 10:58
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I Install It now my forum not working when i open i get this msg
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 No members have liked this post.
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08 Jul 2007, 11:04
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Originally Posted by Ahsin1
Did you upload the files to their correct locations? Did you put gla.php in your includes directory, and can you verify that it is there?
You can disable the product until you resolve the problem. Please check the instructions again to make sure you've followed them. No members have liked this post.
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