Flags of users and proxy detector in geolocation mod for Invision Power Board (IPB)
There is a geolocation mod for Invision Power Board (IPB).
The main mod functions:
- displays the country and flag of user. It is based on API and real geographical (and not invented) data of users;
- Proxy-, VPN-, TOR autodetector, that helps against spam and hooliganism.
The flag can be displayed:
- on the main page of the forum, in the "Board Statistics";
- in the list "Online Users" (also determined for guests);
- in the members profile;
- in the list of all members;
- in posts: in a profile and near the IP address (for moderators).
Features of the mod:
- caching of API-requests for each session, that allows to reduce significantly the number of requests to the database;
- API-requests for IP addresses of search bots will not be calculated;
- mod works with IPB versions 2.1.x, 2.2.x, 2.3.x;
- country in user's profile is defined by registration and in the future will not be changed, if a certain option is not chosen (so the country in the profile will be always actual);
- for moderators the actual country will be recorded in each post, near the IP address;
- the countries names are available in English, Russian, German and Spanish in encodings: UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, WINDOWS-1251, KOI8-R;
- auto hide the posts written through a Proxy, TOR, Hosting and VPN (the feature can be changed in settings);
- sorting of members by country.
Settings:
- Choice between "Country code" and "Service code" (will be available later);
- auto hiding of posts;
- actualisation of the user's profile;
- possibility to show the flag anywhere in the forum to certain groups.
Download geolocation mod and installation instruction:
A script is in mod available to determine the countries of already registered users and the previous posts, it is also possible (ipbgeo_update.php) to download separately. (new version 1.5, 12.Dec.08)
The function "service code" (for proxy detector) will also be available later.
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by Alex
