Hi undercash,

is there a particular problem with Dinabar and MetaMod that you are trying to solve? Or are you just saying that because of CSS problems, Dinabar only works with MetaMod Pro?

It's a shame that Dinabar is no longer available. If it's under GPL, is there any chance you could share it on a server somewhere? I'd be interested in that for other projects...

Cheers,
Stephen

Is the problem when you put Dinabar inside a MetaMod, or when you put a MetaMod inside the Dinabar?

I just tried out both ways: a MetaMod on the page controlling/including a Dinabar, and a Dinabar on the page, including a module position that included a MetaMod that included another module...

It worked both ways.

However, Dinabar is VERY dependent on your template CSS. If you're using a MetaMod to control the Dinabar, and if the Dinabar shows up in the wrong place, when *without* the MetaMod controlling it you see it in the *right* place, then this is because of the extra HTML that MetaMod puts around the included modules.

There are 2 ways to approach this:
1 - try using a CSS class suffix on the MetaMod. This *may* help
2 - use MetaMod Pro. This completely removes the extra HTML surrounding the module, therefore this takes away any CSS issues that are occurring.

With regard to the white screen of death above... one thing to check is that you don't have MetaMod including its own module ID. That makes a circular "include" and eats up memory until it's full - then white screen of death.

Another possibility is that the MetaMod is including the Dynabar which is including the module position that the MetaMod is in... another circular problem.

By the way I spent a few hours doing some upgrades to Dinabar so that it can do "fixed" page positioning as well as the "floating" one that it does at the moment. Plus removed some redundant code, tidied everything up, made some more sensible defaults etc. It's now available on this site as "Dynabar" under terms of the GPL license. See http://www.metamodpro.com/software/dynabar for downloads.

Just for the record: we tracked down undercash's problem to something to do with the GeoIP functionality. When we turned off the GeoIP functions in MetaMod, the blank page went away and we got the proper page back again. We found another way to get hold of GeoIP information and still used it successfully in MetaMod.

If anyone else sees this problem with GeoIP, please let me know. I'd like to get to the bottom of it.

hello again

about the geoip , you gave me that code, via msn I think

$code = $_SERVER['GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE'];

//echo "You are in country: $code";

if ($code == 'US') return 230;
else return 211;


I d like to know if I can put something like

$code = $_SERVER['GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE'];

//echo "You are in country: $code";

if ($code == 'US') return 230;
if ($code == 'UK') return 240;
else return 211;