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FlagTooltips

Summary: Show tool tips for flags in page.
Version: 2025-12-05
Prerequisites:
Status:
Maintainer: Anomen
License: LGPL
Categories: Markup
Users: (view / edit)
Discussion: FlagTooltips-Talk

Questions answered by this recipe

It's possible to insert unicode characters which will make up flag of a given country. This recipe shows tooltip with name of country.

Description

Recipe adds tooltip on all flags found in page text.

Installation

Download flagtooltips.zipΔ.

You can also download up-to-date county list https://restcountries.com/v3.1/all?fields=name,cca2,idd. and store it as pub/flagtooltips/countries.json.

In config.php, add the following line: 

 include_once("$FarmD/cookbook/flagtooltips.php");

Configuration

 $FlagTooltipsUseLocal = false; // You can force downloading of country list from restcountries.com each time.

Usage

Automatic, just insert flags into the text. You can use https://emojipedia.org/ or similar service.

Example:
Example

To do / some day / maybe

  • load countrylist.json only if any flag is found on the page
  • automatically fetch countrylist and cache it in wiki.d

Change log / Release notes

  • 2025-12-05 - initial release

See also

git repository
https://github.com/anomen-s/pmwiki-recipes/tree/master/FlagTooltips

Contributors

Comments

See discussion at FlagTooltips-Talk

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