Comment Country 6.x-1.x-de

The Comment Country module does one small thing but does it well. It enables the display of the author's country information in comments. Available formats are the country name, the 2 letter country code, and the country flag (requires the Country Icons module).Since the module uses the api available at http://ipinfodb.com, it does not require the installation and maintenance of any type of country database. It looks up and stores the comment author's country information upon comment creation and update. There's also an option on on the configuration settings page to refresh all comment country info at once.NOTE 1: NOTHING will display by default. You must edit your theme to print the appropriate $comment properties in your theme's comment.tpl.php file.NOTE 2: For convenience, if the Country Icons module is enabled, the module uses the theme_countryicons_icon_sprite theme function (for performance) to display the country flag as a css sprite. You can always disable the flag display option in the comment_country settings and generate the flag display manually using whatever Country Icons method you prefer. See the Country Icons module documentation for more information.Why another ip / country type module?All I wanted to do was add a little country flag to the 'submitted' line of comments on my site. I tested all the ip / country modules and all were either buggy, too complex, unmaintained, required registered users, required installation and support of a 3rd party country database, or otherwise a mess and complete overkill for such a simple task. Since registered users will quite likely prefer to manually choose their associated country from a select list rather than whatever IP they happen to be using at any given time, I don't believe in using ip to country conversion for user profiles-- just comments and/or visitor info. In fact, users may often choose to make their country of birth their profile country even though they live some place else with an entirely different IP range.Kudos to twooten and the Visitor Info module for the inspiration to use the awesome service available at http://ipinfodb.com to retrieve the information instead of having to download and maintain any type of country knowledge store. There are other ip to country webservices available, but I find this one to be the most complete and accurate-- I have yet to stumble across an ip that couldn't be properly mapped.Important Note About Mass UpdatingThe mass refresh button on the module's configuration page functions perfectly, but is not yet written using the batch api. It will definitely break on sites with a large amount of comments, but I have no clue exactly how many comments will kill it. Rewriting the function to use the batch api (which I have to completely figure out) is on the todo list before an official release will be created. Any patches would be gratefully accepted. ;-)

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Platforms:	PHP
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