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Problem with mod Dinabar
Problem with mod Dinabar
Hello,
I m testing out this great module, mostly for geo targeting reasons. Some of my ads use dinabar module (as they apparently closed their site since I downloaded it you can see what it does here http://www.pokercast.tv/poker-videos-streaming the scrolling horizontal iframe)
I have successfully used Metamod geoip for regular module, except with the common css problem that is resolved with the pro version , witch I would love to buy if my dinabar was working as well
found a better description of this module : http://www.bestofjoomla.com/component/option,com_bestofresources/task,detail/id,1270/Itemid,54/
19-Jan-10 06:03:32
Re: Problem with mod Dinabar
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
Re: Problem with mod Dinabar
hello,
yes it is a free extension, download it http://www.bankrollbuilder.org/mod_dinabar.zip here
there seems to be a problem indeed. As I said, it works fine for regular modules but not at all with a dinabar module. Due to its nature, ads that use dinabar module are a lot more efficient than regular ones. Dinabar is also a metamod in a way, maybe a reason why it s not working. well anyway you can test it now
thanks for the support
Re: Problem with mod Dinabar
I put the dinabar module ID in the quick module list of the metamod module but I don't see anything
Meanwhile, I bought the pro version but after a successful test on a test site (still.. a live server vps), it doesn't works at all on my live site (dedicated), whatever the module I put in metamod, I just get a blank page just like it would do if I had not enough memory available though I setup 256mb in php5 config witch I believe should be really enough to run any script. any hint about that?
Thanks
Re: Problem with mod 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.
Re: Problem with mod Dinabar
Even if I have "Auto-enable included modules =none" selected and no module in the "Quick module position or id include" I get this blank page.
In case, I disabled web compression plugin(gzping and so on) and joomla standart gzip, no difference
thanks for the job on dinabar, surely I ll test your version
Re: Problem with mod Dinabar
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.
Re: Problem with mod Dinabar
yes, awesome support
I think my server is somehow responsible for the problem since it worked out of the box on my very standart centos5 cpanel vps
Since I get geoip module installed with apache, metamodguy did write some custom php rules that does the job really well for me, thanks again.
Re: Problem with mod Dinabar
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;
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