One thing you didn’t mention was it relies on the whois command which wasn’t installed be default on my Ubuntu server. Still one command to apt-get fixed that.

So, again, thanks to this page, my problems were resolved and I found an additional work-around for the future!

*slaps forehead*

So it was. I just didn’t look at the code carefully enough before. I implemented it in place of my own code with not too much hassle and it’s working perfectly. Thank you!

As to the SQL and Ip2Nation stuff, I’m just too lazy to go much more than update the SQL, which I already had, and ironically it wasn’t until I did that, that I saw the first flags not rendering. :/ That’s when I started seeking a solution and ended up Googling my way here to your site.

I might run your script sometime, but as I have just recently removed some perl script software from my Windows system because it was causing me some sort of registry problems, I’m not too hot on the idea of messing with scripts for awhile. I’ve got too much on my plate as a writing/warring blogger as it is, and I’m not the savvy techie type.

But, I will find a way to improve things eventually because my perfectionist nature will overcome my laziness eventually. Hehe.

Thanks again. I’m very happy having country names over the flags — it’s the little things in life that matter!

First of all, the SQL data from March 2006 would have been outdated by now. Why not get the script, which is still there and run it? It will query the RIPE whois server and produce a series of UPDATE SQL queries for you to run on your database to update the ip2nation data.

The recent ip2nation update (2007-March-14) is much improved anyway, although the script did update about 30 netblocks (down from several hundreds). The errors you might be getting may have to do with the fact that ip2nation is often very inaccurate and that does not necessarily have to do with the problem described above. On this site I have been using ip2nation in conjunction with a number of other scripts I wrote that post-process the ip2nation provided tables, and even then there are cases where the country is not valid. My suggestion to you is to give the script a try, after updating your database to the latest ip2nation release.

Re: alt/title. I believe the answer to this question is in the comments above. :)

That aside though, I’m curious as to how you managed to get the alt/title to work for each individual flag. I’d love to get that working instead of just a generic “country flag” on mouseover. If you could share that bit of code that would be fantastic.

Thanks.

In the snippet you provide, remove the first \” you’ve got there, assuming it’s all part of an echo statement.