VBGooglemap Member Edition

[Boofo]

Fixing it to make it work and removing all the bugs is 2 different things. ;)

[Jafo232]

I can see the XML marker is bring written to and the data looks clean. I will have to get a programmer to look at this form me next week. If the fix is something worthy of posting I will post it here in case it can help someone else.

Just a follow up for those who may have the same issue..

I looked into this for Andy and the main problem here was that the server was serving xml files as an application/octet-stream content, whereas it should have been text/xml.

Adjusted the servers conf file and added the proper mime type and it resolved the issue. A quick look at the javascript error log in my browser told me that xmlDoc had no properties. That was the red flag, so I validated the markers.xml file at http://validator.w3.org/ which quickly pointed out the error.

[Boofo]

Not everyone has access to their server's conf file.

[stwilson]

I am in the process of writing my own version since this one is no longer being supported. I will let you know when I have something to test.

This is so long overdue. With all the progress in the mapping space, I cannot believe others have not stepped forward a long time ago. Boofo...I'm sure I speak for many but I can't wait to see what you come up with.

[edward hamilton]

After spending a lot of time on this plug-in, I disabled the cron and now it works pretty well. The update was the problem since I didn't think of the server config solution.

ADMINCP > Scheduled Tasks > disable GoogleMap ME Cron

[Darkstarproject]

Is there a way to get a map of just California in the USA? Our members are mostly in So.Cal.

[chriszep]

Did you try doing this?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1456251&postcount=697

it works for me thanks a lot

[Phosphorus]

OK i found a solution..about IE7 markers problems
The prob is : Marker Title
-Special caracter not reconized on IE7 like "?" for eg.
-Edit the user who put a special caracter on "Marker title" and replace it with a normal one (for eg "a" instead"?")
so you can see markers on IE.

If have try all solutions posted above and the only one who work is this one.. :(

Of course u can add a warning about that for prevent users on your template.

Waiting on a fix - thx for all

note : soz for my english coz i'm french noob ;) and use Firefox ^^

[RedGTiVR6]

if you're waiting for a fix, you're going to be waiting for a while...

[Betablocker]

It doesn't look like this is being supported anymore so you are on your own as are the rest of us, it seems. I am in the process of writing my own version since this one is no longer being supported. I will let you know when I have something to test.


Thats good to hear and i look forward to it.

Thank you very much.

[Boofo]

Sorry, fellas, plans have changed. I just had a second hack where code was ripped and re-released. I don't feel like coding for someone else's future release.

[cbt13]

It works for me but there is a problem. When a guest clicks "Your entry" link to add his or her own marker, it gives the error "Invalid Page Specified". This error is just for guests. Members dont have any problems. How can I solve this problem?

P.S: I've already editted the permissions. But still same problem.

[cbt13]

Any help?

[reverse1312]

Hello,
I've seen many can't see their pin on the map. It's the case for me too.

I wonder if the problem is what say these error messages:
In the include path there is a "/./" that does not seem ok...
What do you think ?
Maybe a file to edit ?

Martin

Warning: include_once(/home/sites/site1/web/forums/./includes/cron/vbggoglemapme_cron.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /admincp/cronadmin.php on line 108

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening '/home/sites/site1/web/forums/./includes/cron/vbggoglemapme_cron.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /admincp/cronadmin.php on line 108

[Rottimom]

Hello

A Mod of me has the following problem.
He does not see only the page, the card and the markers being published at the call of the Map.

83330

Everyone sees everything other Users / Mods.
There is the problem also after update on 3.7.2 since vB 3.7.0. The Mod used FF1.8, then FF 2.0.0.14 and now FF3, always the same problem.
Is it due to the vB, due to the Map or due to what ?
What I can do, or him, so that the card is shown to markers again with this ?

*The answers are welcome also in German to be, my English is very bad.

[Rottimom]

Hello

New information.
The user gets the following error messages in the fault console of the FF3:

83400

I also get these error messages in the fault console of the FF3, apart from the red ones with the cross. So should it to the lies, only what is not here correct with the user?

[Rottimom]

I find it this sadly one gets no help here.

[Shazz]

Ill confirm this works on 3.7.
Found a few errors still working on them.

[Dragon Company]

Ill confirm this works on 3.7.
Found a few errors still working on them.
Will you propose a 3.7 workly version ?

[Brady1505]

Hi,
maybe someone reads this.
I know, the Script is for version 3.6, but it works also on 3.7.2.
There is only one error that comes up, when starting vbgooglemap.

Wrong datatype for second argument in [path]/includes/init.php(293) : eval()'d code (Zeile 3)

Does anyone know, how to get rid of this error?
The map is shown, but I have this text at the top of the page.

Thank you.

Brady

[PtitLu]

I know, the Script is for version 3.6, but it works also on 3.7.2Works perfectly without errors with 3.7.2

[RedGTiVR6]

not exactly, a number of users have issues with 3.7. There are fixes in the thread though.

[Keev]

Anyone else get this error after having it work for over a year? Then all of a sudden I get "Cannot open XML File" any idea what went haywire and needs to be tweaked or fixed?

[ShackMaster]

Wonder what it would take to add "Street View"... those are cool.

[Obi Wan]

Hallo, wir haben das Problem, das nach irgendeinem VB update die googlemap nicht mehr "richtig" funktioniert.

Die Karte wird angezeigt:

http://www.meisterkuehler.de/forum/vbgooglemapme.php

aber komplett ohne Sticker !!!

In der Datenbank sind aber ?ber 200 Mitglieder eingetragen:

http://www.meisterkuehler.de/forum/vbgooglemapme.php?do=list

und kein Sticker wird angezeigt.

Frage: was k?nnen wir testen oder wo k?nnen wir suchen ?

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[Shazz]

Obi Wan, we only understand English.

[Obi Wan]

Hallo, wir haben das Problem, das nach irgendeinem VB update die googlemap nicht mehr "richtig" funktioniert.

Die Karte wird angezeigt:

http://www.meisterkuehler.de/forum/vbgooglemapme.php

aber komplett ohne Sticker !!!

In der Datenbank sind aber ?ber 200 Mitglieder eingetragen:

http://www.meisterkuehler.de/forum/vbgooglemapme.php?do=list

und kein Sticker wird angezeigt.

Frage: was k?nnen wir testen oder wo k?nnen wir suchen ?

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http://home.arcor.de/dsl-router/tmp-shit/vbgooglemap02.gif

http://home.arcor.de/dsl-router/tmp-shit/vbgooglemap03.gif

Hello!
We've got a broblem with our googlemap. After upgrading it doesn't work in a proper mode any more.
The map is shown as follows (click the link, please):
http://www.meisterkuehler.de/forum/vbgooglemapme.php
All the pins are completly missing.

The database includes more than 200 items.
http://www.meisterkuehler.de/forum/v...me.php?do=list

Question: What can we do to fix our problem or where can we try to find a solution?
Maybe you can help.

Thanks for supporting us.

[mauriceo]

I've installed and have it working on a 3.7.2 forums without any problems but mine looks different as the one form the demo link in the first post. The one from the demo is not default?

[Rend Sever]

The Show on map links aren't zooming in to the proper pins, the map simply sits at the default lat/long.

Any insight?

[RedGTiVR6]

The Show on map links aren't zooming in to the proper pins, the map simply sits at the default lat/long.

Any insight?

+1 on this one.

[Rend Sever]

+1 on this one.

My guess is it's an error in the Javascript towards the bottom of the vbgooglemapme_display_map template. Perhaps it doesn't parse out or make proper use of the supplied URL variables?

Although I'm no JS guru by the least bit, I'll look deeper into it asap.


EDIT: I've narrowed it down to the Load_Map() function. So far from what I've seen, there isn't even code to put to use the URL variables. I'll do some more digging and report back.

[Jim O]

Is anyone able to get this configured using lighty (lighttpd)?

It worked fine for me on apache but on lighty I get a blank map.

[OcR Envy]

Was there ever a fix to the issue of a user changing usergroups and the marker color not updating?

[wrang]

What do i do wrong when i get this error??

Invalid SQL:
SET NAMES 'utf8';

MySQL Error : Unknown system variable 'NAMES'
Error Number : 1193
Date : Tuesday, August 19th 2008 @ 02:05:05 AM


Invalid SQL:
SET NAMES 'utf8';

MySQL Error : Unknown system variable 'NAMES'
Error Number : 1193

[vwdforum]

does this work on 3.7 ?

[mlthmp]

Hi all.

I just wanted to post and let everyone know that with a little work this mod can work with 3.7.2 as mentioned above.

I was also having a problem with the markers not showing. However, after making the edits to the vbgooglemapme_cron and functions_vbgooglemapme files.. as well as having to run the cron by hand three times.. the mod appears to be working correctly.

[Fanny Annie]

this was working fine but the markers have gone since a few have added ..........any ideas?

what are the edits to make this work on 3.7.2 etc

[rotor]

Read back through for the reason for no markers ... it's in the earlier threads some where ....

If my memory serves me correctly it's because some one has added their marker title with something other than [A-Z] or [0-9] ... not exactly sure but it's something simple like that ...

[Fanny Annie]

This does work actually on 3.7

[wrang]

is it possible to mark more than just one point as a mod or admin??

[steven s]

I can't believe anyone is still using this.
It was a cool mod while it lasted.
I thought it was moved to the graveyard.
I seem to recall a warning about using this mod.

I'm hesitant to run anything that has no support from the author.

[edytwinky]

When I entered in my spot on the map, I got the following error:


Database error in vBulletin 3.6.8:

Invalid SQL:
SET NAMES 'utf8';

MySQL Error : Unknown system variable 'NAMES'
Error Number : 1193
Date : Wednesday, September 10th 2008 @ 07:12:03 PM
Script : http://---------.com/vbgooglemapme.php
Referrer : http://---------.com/vbgooglemapme.php?do=addelement
IP Address : 68.102.23.100
Username : EB 22
Classname : vb_database


On top of that there's an IE error that comes up:


Line: 1026
Char: 3
Error: Invalid Pointer
Code: 0
URL: http:/xxxxx/vbgooglemapme.php

[edytwinky]

I got it to work with the fixes.

Is there any way to manually add people's locations for them?

[drifterwolf]

I'm having a weird problem with this and any help would be appreciated. I'm rather a newbie at this so be gentle with 'talking shop'.

I've installed the map and it works fine in the default style. I added the vb_dark style for the board, and I followed the instructions on uploading the images to the new style's directory. Though the map will not show up on the new style at all. It works fine in the default style, but is completely blank on the new style.

What am I doing wrong?

[onrope]

Well, I have done code edits listed here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1456251&postcount=697) and that resulted in the members still not showing up.

Changing the theme back to default still had no effect.

Appears to be dysfunctional in IE as well as Fire Fox.

Anyone have any additional suggestions?

[onrope]

I got it to work with the fixes.

Is there any way to manually add people's locations for them?

Can you elaborate with all of the fixes you have done?

[ATVTorture]

We have this installed and have done the mod that onrope posted above but the markers don't show up. They show if you go to "your entry" but not on the main map. Any ideas anyone. We're running vb3.7.3 and have seen folks that have replied saying they're running 3.7 with no problems.

Thanks!

[gwerzal]

Hi i have this installed and everything looks ok except none of the markers are showing on the map at all.

I know a lot of other members have had this problem but i cant seem to find a fix.

I have it set to auto approve. i have gone through all the steps and am not new to installing mods so i have made sure everything is right.

I have changed the permisions of marker.xml to 777

The only thing i can think of is i have uploaded the images in the wrong place

I am using a custom style so i currently have the images in the folders

images/googlemapme

and

images/bluedeamon/googlemapme

I cant think of anything else it could be but if anyone can help it is very much appreciated.

The site i am trying to install on is UK Betting Tips (http://www.uk-betting-tips.co.uk)

[lpetrich]

Some feature requests / proposals:
Mousewheel zooming
Mousing over only pops up usernames instead of full-scale info balloons
Ability to select terrain
I've found mousewheel zooming and terrain selection in the Google Maps API (http://code.google.com/apis/maps/), but I'd like some hint as to where in the code to add it, like where the map pane is created. The info balloons are more complicated, but I think that I could handle them.

If I successfully make those changes, I'll post them here.

[lpetrich]

To make the changes I'd proposed, edit product-vbgooglemapme.xml and make these changes.

To make mousing over only show the username, change:

Line 550:
var marker = new GMarker(point, icon);
to
var marker = new GMarker(point, {icon:icon, title:username});

BTW, the former syntax for the GMarker constructor is now deprecated. What I substituted for "icon" is a GMarkerOptions object, which is a JavaScript property list.

To enable mousewheel zooming and terrain display, add these lines:

map.enableScrollWheelZoom();
map.addMapType(G_PHYSICAL_MAP);

after the following lines:

Line 598:
map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("memap"),$map_type);
Line 855:
map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("mapme"),$map_type);
Line 1129:
map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("mapme"),$map_type);

Be sure to reinstall it after you are done editing it.

I didn't try to add a "terrain" option to the possible default views, because it would take some coding in several places in the plugin, and I didn't try to add draggability to the marker placer, even though it only requires editing the product file.

To do the latter, you set draggable:true in the marker's options, then set up a GEvent listener that gets the "moveend" event and updates the displayed position accordingly.

And is the recentering after moving worth keeping?

ETA: when making mousing over only show the username, be sure to go to

Admin CP > Vbgooglemap ME > ME Settings > Enable the mouseover support on the markers?

and make it "No". That way, you will only get a marker's info bubble when you click on it.

[lpetrich]

Cosmetic change: fix of marker appearance in location editor. It will always look like the vbGoogleMap red marker, rather than Google Maps's default marker. Assumes the line numbering of the previous fix.

In product-vbgooglemapme.xml:

Line 863:
map.addOverlay(new GMarker(point, icon));
to
map.addOverlay(new GMarker(point, {icon:icon}));

Line 877:
map.addOverlay(new GMarker(point));
to
map.addOverlay(new GMarker(point, {icon:icon}));

ETA:

Another cosmetic change: fix of marker position on map:

Change all occurrences of

icon.iconAnchor = new GLatLng(...);
icon.infoWindowAnchor = new GLatLng(...);

to

icon.iconAnchor = new GPoint(6, 20);
icon.infoWindowAnchor = new GPoint(8, 1);

Coordinates are left-to-right, top-to-bottom.

[ATVTorture]

lpetrich,

Since you obviously have the map working, do you think you could read posts 797-800 above and see if you could help us out with getting it going on 3.7.3. It seems to be a common problem and some of us are curious as to where we're going wrong with the install/configuration so that none of our pointers show up.

Thanks for any insight you can provide.

Buster

[lpetrich]

You'd implemented ZeroHour's fix (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1456251&postcount=697), I guess -- that's what I had done, and it had worked for me.

I had also edited markers.xml to get rid of troublesome XML-breaking characters in it, getting rid of ? and & and the like.

If you have Firefox, you can do some debugging with it by selecting
Tools > Error Console

Any HTML, CSS, or JavaScript errors will show up there.

If you are more adventurous, you can go to the Firefox add-ons page (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/) and install the JavaScript debugger and try to use it to see what's happening.

[ATVTorture]

Yeah, I had done ZeroHour's fix to no avail. I also stripped down the xml file so the first line is <markers>, the next 2 lines are 2 markers I created on the map, then the file closes with </markers> Still doesn't load them on the main map. But, you can see the marker when you select "Your entry" which is odd.

When I ran Firefox's error console, it gave to errors in the css for "word-wrap" saying it was an unknown property and the declaration was dropped.

[lpetrich]

You could try displaying markers.xml in your web browser: <forum root address>/markers.xml

That will show what your browser "thinks" it is, and perhaps purge the browser's cached version of markers.xml

I remember editing it once, but some time after that, it got some bad image links again, so markers.xml may be created from the database. I think that it gets periodically re-created by vbGoogleMap's cron job; it also gets re-created after an entry creation or edit.

So you could go to
Admin CP > Vbgooglemap ME > ME Full View

and edit the possibly-troublesome entries, using markers.xml as a guide. By the time you read this, that cron job had likely restored markers.xml to the database value; you can run it again by going to
Admin CP Scheduled Tasks > Scheduled Task Manager > Googlemap ME Cron

and pressing "Run Now".

The two vbGoogleMap data tables in the database are:
googlemapme
googlemapme_settings

So you can try deleting those if you get desperate.

[crkgb]

Some knowledgeable people here. A question if you do not mind. My site is in UTF-8 encoding in Cyrillic. Everything is good but tooltip encoding is messed up. Any suggestions on how to fix that?

Thank You

[lpetrich]

Seems like some trouble in generating the HTML for the info bubbles.

Here's a kludge that will work:

Enter the Cyrillic text or special characters as HTML entities when editing an entry, characters in this form: &#<decimal>; or &#x<hexadecimal>; or &<name>;

It should be displayed in the info bubbles correctly. However, it'll get displayed as the translated characters the next time you go edit. Digging in the plugin code for how to take care of this mess will be rather difficult for me, however. However, I've prepared a kludge:

Create a translator page with this HTML code

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
<!--
function Make_HTML_Entities()
{
var text = document.getElementById("TextInput").value;
var uctext = ""
for (var i=0; i<text.length; i++)
{
ucchr = "&amp;#" + text.charCodeAt(i) + ";";
uctext += ucchr;
}
document.getElementById("TextOutput").innerHTML = uctext;
}
//-->
</script>
<table>
<tr>
<td>Text to be expanded:</td>
<td>
<input id="TextInput" type="text">
<input type="button" value="Go!" onclick="Make_HTML_Entities()">
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>As HTML entities:</td>
<td>
<div id="TextOutput"></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

It'll turn whatever you had typed into HTML entities, which can then be used as input.

[MediaHound]

The Show on map links aren't zooming in to the proper pins, the map simply sits at the default lat/long.

Any insight?

Same here as well. Did you happen to figure it out?

[lpetrich]

Rend Sever and MediaHound, had you tried ZeroHour's fix? It's post 697 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1456251&postcount=697) here.

And when you run it, be sure to go to "Scheduled Tasks" in the AdminCP and run the vbGoogleMap cron job to refresh markers.xml

You can see if it has bad HTML by getting <forum root>/markers.xml on your web browser, and you can find out where the page execution bombs out with Firefox Tools > Error Console.

[crkgb]

Seems like some trouble in generating the HTML for the info bubbles.

Here's a kludge that will work:

Enter the Cyrillic text or special characters as HTML entities when editing an entry, characters in this form: &#<decimal>; or &#x<hexadecimal>; or &<name>;

It should be displayed in the info bubbles correctly. However, it'll get displayed as the translated characters the next time you go edit. Digging in the plugin code for how to take care of this mess will be rather difficult for me, however. However, I've prepared a kludge:

Create a translator page with this HTML code

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
<!--
function Make_HTML_Entities()
{
var text = document.getElementById("TextInput").value;
var uctext = ""
for (var i=0; i<text.length; i++)
{
ucchr = "&amp;#" + text.charCodeAt(i) + ";";
uctext += ucchr;
}
document.getElementById("TextOutput").innerHTML = uctext;
}
//-->
</script>
<table>
<tr>
<td>Text to be expanded:</td>
<td>
<input id="TextInput" type="text">
<input type="button" value="Go!" onclick="Make_HTML_Entities()">
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>As HTML entities:</td>
<td>
<div id="TextOutput"></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

It'll turn whatever you had typed into HTML entities, which can then be used as input.

Thank you. It's a good manual solution, but when you have hundreds of users adding their info it becomes a liability. Unfortunately for right now I am unable to use this awesome mod due to the tooltip encoding issue.

[lpetrich]

I looked at the product file, and I found the editor page in it. It does a simple HTML submit-page operation, but I'd have to find which code receives the submitted data, and find that code's path from the submitted data to the database.

But once that is done, it should be easy to turn out-of-band characters into HTML entities with code like what I'd written.

[crkgb]

Thank you very much for your assistance. Will be waiting for further info from you

[MediaHound]

Rend Sever and MediaHound, had you tried ZeroHour's fix? It's post 697 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1456251&postcount=697) here.

And when you run it, be sure to go to "Scheduled Tasks" in the AdminCP and run the vbGoogleMap cron job to refresh markers.xml

You can see if it has bad HTML by getting <forum root>/markers.xml on your web browser, and you can find out where the page execution bombs out with Firefox Tools > Error Console.

No, thats not my problem, read the post again please. The problem I speak of involves the old version that allowed one to link to specific members on the map. I run in the postbit a link for each member that filled the map a link to his pin on the map. The earlier version of this mod that I was running allowed those links to work. The update I did no longer lets those links work. Example of a link:
http://www.forums.com/vbgooglemapme.php?lat=26.11672770042665&lng=-98.20377498865128&zoom=10
That type of link would zoom in to said location. Now its just as if I were to pull up vbgooglemapme.php without passing the variables. The variables in the URL don't have any effect anymore. I wish they would. Have you got an idea to fix this please? Thanks in advance!

[lpetrich]

I did some checking, and I found that

(vbGoogleMap page) >[List users] > (some user) > Show on map

has a URL syntax of

<forum root>/vbgooglemapme.php?lat=<latitude>&lng=<longitude>&zoom=<zoom>

like your link, MediaHound. I tried composing a URL with that syntax, but with nobody's location in it, and it worked fine on my site's vbGoogleMap installation.

So see what happens with "Show on map". If you have Firefox, I recommend going to Tools > Error Console, in case it's an error in the generated page.

[MediaHound]

Nope, when I click those as well (same link format), the map stays on:
"Currently viewing <is null>"
"Current Zoom level: 1" (meanwhile the URL dictates it should be 6, or 10, etc..)

715 markers on the map all seem to appear just fine.

Latitude and Longitude are not matching up between the page and in the URL.

Error console is reporting many instances of this:
Error: self._setBlockingState is not a function
Source File: chrome://global/content/bindings/notification.xml
Line: 262

Thanks again :up:

[4x4 Mecca]

Ok, I opened my debug script and there was only one error in a javascript, something about forground or something. But I also edited the two php files and I still can't see all the member markers on the main map. However if I choose to edit an individual member I can see their marker on their own page.

[effeff70]

I´ve added googlemap ME, everything looks fine, but when i set "your entry" and then "update" there´s no Marker on the map, then using a test account (all rights set)
doing the same, "your entry" but i couldn´t see a marker?

All files are in correct Maps, marker rights set "777" settings ok....whats wrong?
vb 3.7.3

Somebody an Idea?
THX

[effeff70]

Can nobody help? No idea?

[lpetrich]

effeff70, did you try ZeroHour's fix?

I suggest that after doing that, you run the vbGoogleMap cron job again; it's in Scheduled Tasks. It will regenerate markers.xml with the fixes.

You can look at markers.xml with your web browser by going to <forum root>/markers.xml -- check to see if there's anything that an XML parser might gag on, like a & or a ?

You can fix those bad characters by going to "List users" and then editing their entries to get rid of them. That'll update their entries in the database.

[MediaHound]

Anyone know how to make the old links work again to link to direct markers on the map?

[effeff70]

@Ipetrich

No i didn´t , but i will...THX for answere...

[Falcon Capt]

No, thats not my problem, read the post again please. The problem I speak of involves the old version that allowed one to link to specific members on the map. I run in the postbit a link for each member that filled the map a link to his pin on the map. The earlier version of this mod that I was running allowed those links to work. The update I did no longer lets those links work. Example of a link:
http://www.forums.com/vbgooglemapme.php?lat=26.11672770042665&lng=-98.20377498865128&zoom=10
That type of link would zoom in to said location. Now its just as if I were to pull up vbgooglemapme.php without passing the variables. The variables in the URL don't have any effect anymore. I wish they would. Have you got an idea to fix this please? Thanks in advance!After a recent server move I am having the exact same issue. Anyone have any insight?

[Falcon Capt]

No, thats not my problem, read the post again please. The problem I speak of involves the old version that allowed one to link to specific members on the map. I run in the postbit a link for each member that filled the map a link to his pin on the map. The earlier version of this mod that I was running allowed those links to work. The update I did no longer lets those links work. Example of a link:
http://www.forums.com/vbgooglemapme.php?lat=26.11672770042665&lng=-98.20377498865128&zoom=10
That type of link would zoom in to said location. Now its just as if I were to pull up vbgooglemapme.php without passing the variables. The variables in the URL don't have any effect anymore. I wish they would. Have you got an idea to fix this please? Thanks in advance!

After a recent server move I am having the exact same issue. Anyone have any insight?Bump.

Anyone have any insight on this issue?

[Falcon Capt]

No, thats not my problem, read the post again please. The problem I speak of involves the old version that allowed one to link to specific members on the map. I run in the postbit a link for each member that filled the map a link to his pin on the map. The earlier version of this mod that I was running allowed those links to work. The update I did no longer lets those links work. Example of a link:
http://www.forums.com/vbgooglemapme.php?lat=26.11672770042665&lng=-98.20377498865128&zoom=10
That type of link would zoom in to said location. Now its just as if I were to pull up vbgooglemapme.php without passing the variables. The variables in the URL don't have any effect anymore. I wish they would. Have you got an idea to fix this please? Thanks in advance!

Ok, got it fixed!

in vbgooglemapme.php find:

if ( isset($HTTP_GET_VARS["lng"]) && !empty($HTTP_GET_VARS["lng"]) && isset($HTTP_GET_VARS["lat"]) && !empty($HTTP_GET_VARS["lat"]) )
{
$dlng = $HTTP_GET_VARS["lng"];
$dlat = $HTTP_GET_VARS["lat"];
}
if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS["zoom"]) && !empty($HTTP_GET_VARS["zoom"])) {
$zoomlevel = $HTTP_GET_VARS["zoom"];
}

and change it to:

if ( isset($_GET["lng"]) && !empty($_GET["lng"]) && isset($_GET["lat"]) && !empty($_GET["lat"]) )
{
$dlng = $_GET["lng"];
$dlat = $_GET["lat"];
}
if (isset($_GET["zoom"]) && !empty($_GET["zoom"])) {
$zoomlevel = $_GET["zoom"];
}

Hope this helps! :)

[lpetrich]

Falcon Capt, thanx for that patch. But the original code works fine in my installation. However, I haven't had such trouble with my site's installation of vbGoogleMap -- the location syntax works fine with it:

<forum root>/vbgooglemapme.php?lat=<latitude>&lng=<longitude>&zoom=<zoom value>

Try composing a URL with some latitude, longitude, and zoom values and see what happens.


In reference to crkgb's troubles, I added some Cyrillic text to the description text by copying and pasting some Cyrillic text from a text field elsewhere (Dashboard auto-translator widget). I used this Russian phrase:

Где я? (Gde ya? -- Where am I?)

It showed up without any trouble -- I tested it on the most recent OSX Firefox, Opera, and Safari, and also the most recent Windows Internet Explorer. It may be that crkgb's installation of vBulletin had been set to use a different character encoding; mine (talkrational.org) uses vBulletin's default, as far as I can tell.


It's possible to HTMLize the text that one inputs in the editor page; that involves changing this code in in vbgooglemap.php:

$title_map = $db->escape_string(trim($vbulletin->GPC['title_map']));
$text_map = $db->escape_string(trim($vbulletin->GPC['text_map']));

to:

$title_map = $db->escape_string(htmlspecialchars(trim($vbulletin->GPC['title_map']),ENT_QUOTES));
$text_map = $db->escape_string(htmlspecialchars(trim($vbulletin->GPC['text_map']),ENT_QUOTES));

I tried that, and it turns the Cyrillic characters into HTML-entity text, which is displayed in that fashion:
#1043;#1076;#1077; #1103;?
(initial &'s removed)

So using this fix would require reverting ZeroHour's fixes back to the original, and then editing all the users' map info -- one can do that if one had set one's privileges appropriately in the usergroups editor. ZeroHour's fixes are for composing markers.xml from the database info; users' web browsers then read markers.xml to find out which markers to display. I found htmlspecialchars in this PHP string-function reference (http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_ref_string.asp), along with other PHP text-conversion functions.

[Falcon Capt]

Falcon Capt, thanx for that patch. But the original code works fine in my installation. However, I haven't had such trouble with my site's installation of vbGoogleMap -- the location syntax works fine with it:

<forum root>/vbgooglemapme.php?lat=<latitude>&lng=<longitude>&zoom=<zoom value>

Try composing a URL with some latitude, longitude, and zoom values and see what happens.

I did and had the same problem, the map would just open to the default settings. This problem occured after changing servers. The new server is running slightly different versions of Apache, PHP and MySQL. The fix I posted above took care of the issue and it is once again working fine.

[MediaHound]

Ok, got it fixed!

in vbgooglemapme.php find:

if ( isset($HTTP_GET_VARS["lng"]) && !empty($HTTP_GET_VARS["lng"]) && isset($HTTP_GET_VARS["lat"]) && !empty($HTTP_GET_VARS["lat"]) )
{
$dlng = $HTTP_GET_VARS["lng"];
$dlat = $HTTP_GET_VARS["lat"];
}
if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS["zoom"]) && !empty($HTTP_GET_VARS["zoom"])) {
$zoomlevel = $HTTP_GET_VARS["zoom"];
}

and change it to:

if ( isset($_GET["lng"]) && !empty($_GET["lng"]) && isset($_GET["lat"]) && !empty($_GET["lat"]) )
{
$dlng = $_GET["lng"];
$dlat = $_GET["lat"];
}
if (isset($_GET["zoom"]) && !empty($_GET["zoom"])) {
$zoomlevel = $_GET["zoom"];
}

Hope this helps! :)

I am ever so grateful for this patch, good work. I would like to add to the record that in addition to the version upgrade of this mod, I did also do a server switch recently as well. As you experienced as well, I guess it may have been my server switch that caused this to stop working, not necessarily the version upgrade as I initially thought.

Good work once again Falcon Capt, bravo!

[MediaHound]

What do i do wrong when i get this error??

+1
I have the same issue on another board I just did a version upgrade.
I upgraded the version from 2.5.x to the latest version and went to run the scheduled task when it choked on this error:
Database error in vBulletin 3.6.8:

Invalid SQL:
SET NAMES 'utf8';

MySQL Error : Unknown system variable 'NAMES'
Error Number : 1193


Did you perhaps get it fixed yet wrang?
:o

[MediaHound]

... all fixed.

To fix this SET NAMES error,
open /includes/cron/vbgooglemapme_cron.php
find line 29:
$vbulletin->db->query_first("SET NAMES 'utf8'");

change to:
//$vbulletin->db->query_first("SET NAMES 'utf8'");

All we did is comment it out.

[lpetrich]

Fix: added the ability to choose "Terrain" as a default map type:


In vbgooglemapme_admin.php

After line 39:
'3' => 'Satellite',
add
'4' => 'Terrain',


In vbgooglemapme.php

After line 73,
change
if ($maptype == 1)
{
$map_type = "{mapTypes:[G_NORMAL_MAP,G_SATELLITE_MAP,G_HYBRID_MAP]}";
}
...
}
to
switch ($maptype) {
case 1:
$map_type = "G_NORMAL_MAP";
break;
case 2:
$map_type = "G_HYBRID_MAP";
break;
case 3:
$map_type = "G_SATELLITE_MAP";
break;
case 4:
$map_type = "G_PHYSICAL_MAP";
break;
}


In product-vbgooglemapme.xml

change
map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("mapme"),$map_type);
to
map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("mapme"));
and likewise for "memap" instead of "mapme".

After
map.addMapType(G_PHYSICAL_MAP);
add
map.setMapType($map_type);


I'd earlier described my terrain fix, which involves adding the line
map.addMapType(G_PHYSICAL_MAP);
after each instance of
map = new GMap2(...);

[lpetrich]

Fix:

Centers an image in the info balloon's "Image" tab. If the image is larger than the maximum allowed size in either direction, then it will be rescaled to fit.

In product-vbgooglemapme.xml

Line 550:
var content2 = "<img width=\"$gmimagemax\" border=\"0\" src=\""+pimage+"\"></a>";
to
var content2 = "<img style=\"max-width: {$gmimagemax}px; max-height: {$gmimagemax}px; display: block; text-align: center; margin: auto; vertical-align:middle\" src=\""+pimage+"\">";

[rknight111]

My google map in the last few weeks has gone blank, no names are displayed at all, And I dont even know where to start from. My map is located at http://www.snowandmud.com/forum/vbgooglemapme.php?do=showmain

[lpetrich]

rknight111, have you tried ZeroHour's fix for writing markers.xml? The existing code is likely writing stuff that an XML parser will gag on as not proper XML.

[rknight111]

rknight111, have you tried ZeroHour's fix for writing markers.xml? The existing code is likely writing stuff that an XML parser will gag on as not proper XML.

Where do I find this?

[lpetrich]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1456251#post1456251" target="_blank">Right here</a>

[rknight111]

Thanks alot, its working now :)

[giper]

Hello,

I have just installed this on my forum and it looks great so far. However, I'm having a problem when I try to manually run the cron from the scheduled task manager within the admin CP. this is the error I get.....


Warning: main(********/forum/includes/cron/vbgooglemapme_cron.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /admincp/cronadmin.php on line 110

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening '*******/forum/includes/cron/vbgooglemapme_cron.php' for inclusion (include_path='/usr/lib/php:.:/usr/php4/lib/php:/usr/local/php4/lib/php') in /admincp/cronadmin.php on line 110


Any ideas what I need to fix?

Thanks in advance. :)



Edit: Disregard! I found my problem. I forgot to upload vbgooglemapme_cron.php into includes/cron.

Thank you!

[10 Gauge]

I am having an interesting problem with this app. I installed it about 2 weeks ago and it worked great. Just today when I logged in none of the members locations are showing on the map. If you look at the member list they are still listed, but none of the pins or anything are loading on the map. It used to have the "Load: X of X" in the upper right, now it just says "Load:" with nothing behind it.

Any clue as to what happened? No settings or anything have been messed with since it was installed.

[birdie]

I think you will find this problem has been discussed in previous posts - you will need to search for it (I don't have the time to search and do not recall the solution)

[PtitLu]

I think you will find this problem has been discussed in previous posts - you will need to search for it (I don't have the time to search and do not recall the solution)

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1456251&postcount=697

But it does not work on my 3.7.4 forum :(

[VBDev]

Hi all,

Has anyone this googlemap installed on his forums, and could give me an url to the vbgooglemapme.php, avaible for guests please ? I'd like to check some things ! ;)

[VBDev]

Hi stonyarc, I've seen on your board that you're using 3.7.4 too, but markers do not seem working, do you know why ?

We tried the patch posted here, but no way ... have you a solution ? :)

[Glenshadow]

I was able to get this working with vB 3.80 RC2 with a few of lpetrich's and Falcon Capt's suggested fixes.

Mainly the zoom wouldn't work when you clicked the find me, and then just a few improvments.

I didn't read back through all of the posts, but I wonder how hard it would be to add two things...

One maybe a single user that can add multiple links on there, or even everyone being able to add more than just their location. Seeing how my site deals with Off-Roading, it would be nice to mark trails on the map maybe even with a different icon.

Another idea, somehow link it to zipcode based locating. So if a vb user has their zipcode entered in their profile it will automagically populate. (I suspect this is gonna be harder to do because of the sheer amount of code it will take.)

Any thoughts ? I am going to read more of this thread tomorrow and see if I can get some ideas from the code.

[jlew24asu]

here's to hoping this gets re-released.

[Glenshadow]

Well I don't know about a re-release, but if it helps anyone I have attached my product-vbgooglemapme.xml and vbgooglemapme.php files in a zip. All I have done is added the recommended changes and it does work as I stated in earlier post.

One change I made myself is in the vbgooglemapme.xml file. Line 1479 I changed it so that there is a globe icon you click in the users postbit to locate them.I didn't like the text link and it was out of place for sure where I plopped it. I put it right under the user IM icons.

You will need to change the hyper link I added in line 1479 to you your actual domain/path_to_imag.file.


<div>$post[icqicon] $post[aimicon] $post[msnicon] $post[yahooicon] $post[skypeicon]</div>
<!-- vBGoogleMap Me -->
$post[findme]
<!-- / vBGoogleMap Me -->


I included the globe in the zip file as well but you can replace it with anything you like.


Hope this helps anyone looking to get it working. I am far from a coder, but I will spend hours making something I like work.. or until my eyes bleed which they were last night.

Thanks to the original author and those that have added code to make it work !

FYI, my server is IIS on 2003 x64, MySQL 5.x, PHP 5.x.

[Glenshadow]

I just updated my last post and attachment with the fixes detailed here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1456251&postcount=697

This addresses the disappearing markers which I had happen today.. roughly 24 hours after I installed it and had it working. This occured when a user went to modify his marker and they just all vanished.

Hope this helps... follow the directions in that post on where to place the updated files.

I do notice now, that if you go back to the Map and select "Your Entry", the zoom and links below are blank and the map doesn't show.

This might be a fluke with one of the other patches I applied.. I will research it more later.

[PtitLu]

It still doesn't work for me (3.7.4) with theses mods. No marker is shown. It worked a few weeks ago. Does anyone get vbgooglemap working on a 3.7.4 vBulletin ?

[lpetrich]

I suggest checking <forum root directory>/markers.xml to see if it can be parsed correctly as XML. People often put ' or " into their usernames and/or description text, which causes confusion for XML parsers.

ZeroHour's fix, in this thread, had fixed that problem for me and several others -- has it ever failed for anyone?

More broadly, it would be nice if someone was willing to maintain an updated and fixed version. I myself am willing to take on that task; I am rather expert with the Google Maps API, though not with PHP or vBulletin internals or interacting with a database. But I see a potential problem with infringing on StonyArc's copyright. Has anyone been in touch with StonyArc about this add-on, its problems, and our fixes?

[PtitLu]

It still doesn't work for me (3.7.4) with theses mods. No marker is shown. It worked a few weeks ago. Does anyone get vbgooglemap working on a 3.7.4 vBulletin ?Same problem with the 3.7.5 version available today.

[Glenshadow]

I can't see how 3.7x wouldn't work if I can get it to work on 3.8 RC2. 3.8 is final on Thursday....

I didn't read all of your posts, but did you check in your markers.xml and make sure they are still in there ? If so, try the files I just updated and added last night in my previous post. I KNOW they work for for me because mine disappeared.. so I went back to post 697 and did those changes, uploaded files, ran scheduled task, and they were back.

Another thing of note.. take a peek and make sure you don't have any goofy characters in any of the users data. Not saying that would be the exact cause.. but I noticed that if someone links to an image and it has & or special characters that it won't show the image.

[Parture]

When is there going to be a brand new googlemaps, preferrably HSE Edition? I base my forums on a Meeting Place Finder (http://biblocality.com/forums).

[Guest20210415]

Another question: Is it really necessary to have this markers.xml?

Everybody can download this XML file. So an unregistered user can have all members with their coordinates. Makes this sense?

If we really need this file is it not possible to protect it against violation?

[Glenshadow]

True.. I never thought about that.. but usually "most average" people won't know about this file.

You need to have it because it stores the locations.. unless you get creative with blocking the direct call of it, or re-write the whole mod to use DB.. your most likely stuck with it. It has to be accessable and writeable.

[lpetrich]

There is a way to avoid creating and using that file.

Put its contents into the map page itself, as a JavaScript array.

However, one will have to ensure that quotes and apostrophes are properly escaped.

It's possible to improve performance by caching the page and updating it whenever the positions-DB entries change. And a simple way of doing that is to calculate a MD5 or SHA1 hash value for the positions DB whenever it gets updated, and to update the page only when its hash code differs from the DB's one.

PHP has some built-in functions for that, md5() and sha1(), so it should be straightforward to implement.

[DaveS]

Well I don't know about a re-release, but if it helps anyone I have attached my product-vbgooglemapme.xml and vbgooglemapme.php files in a zip. All I have done is added the recommended changes and it does work as I stated in earlier post.


Thanks for the fixes. I've come back to this to try to find a google maps members map solution as there doesn't seem to be one anywhere and this is closest I could find.

Im on vB 3.8.

I've updated with your files and I get the following problems (just in case there are additional fixes):

If I click the "Your Entry" link to add a marker it all seems to work, but when I load the Main Map I'm not shown on there. However I can see myself in the users list.

If I click on the "Your Entry" link after I've added myself the Googlemap doesn't load showing me where I had been placed.

No matter what I do it won't display the saved markers.

Any ideas?

[PtitLu]

This is exactly the problem i have since 3.7.5 (and still have on 3.8.0). Wishing someone has a solution, or this fantastic mod will be upgraded.

[Phaedrus]

Is there a way to make it update when usergroups change?

[Phaedrus]

True.. I never thought about that.. but usually "most average" people won't know about this file.

You need to have it because it stores the locations.. unless you get creative with blocking the direct call of it, or re-write the whole mod to use DB.. your most likely stuck with it. It has to be accessable and writeable.

CHMOD = 644 works. (Guess Not, weird things have been happening since the upgrade to 3.8.1)

[Parture]

Why doesn't some rewrite the whole thing and start over in a new thread? I preferred the HSE edition.

[lpetrich]

I'm thinking of uploading an archive of the vbGoogleMap plugin with my fixes.

Would that be OK with you people or would that be out of line?

[Trek]

Please! =)

I'm thinking of uploading an archive of the vbGoogleMap plugin with my fixes.

Would that be OK with you people or would that be out of line?

[DaveS]

Please! =)
Yep I'll second that. Yes please!

[DaveS]

Just as a related aside.....
vbgooglemap HSE edition by the same author actually works better for me. It does have some bugs but it's basically useable.

[MagiKelly]

Just as a related aside.....
vbgooglemap HSE edition by the same author actually works better for me. It does have some bugs but it's basically useable.

It does work but it was withdrawn as one of the bugs was a security issue that has not been fixed. If someone can fix the security issue I would love to have this working again.

[MediaHound]

I just want to say thanks to Loren as each time I check this thread, he's going well out of his way to help others. It's really nice to have people like that around!

[lpetrich]

ETA:

I have reluctantly decided to remove this archive, since I am concerned that it might violate certain policies.

However, all the changes that went into it are detailed elsewhere in this thread, by ZeroHour and by myself.

[troppodel]

hi there
i have installed your great mod
vb 3.8.0
i have replaced these codes
//$db->query_first("SET NAMES 'utf8'");
//$vbulletin->db->query_first("SET NAMES 'utf8'");
with // before i had a db error now seem to work but when i create a new entry i can show it in the main map
also if i run the task scheduler
any idea?
thanks
Ivan

[troppodel]

other problem
all images for the usergroups have this link

http://www.mysite.com/forum/images/googlemapme/mm_20_.png

withou the colour name!

[troppodel]

now i understood my apologies for my stupid questions above

[akonze]

All works fine untill I try to insert a location. I get the following error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.0:

Invalid SQL:
SET NAMES 'utf8';

MySQL Error : Unknown system variable 'NAMES'
Error Number : 1193
Request Date : Thursday, January 29th 2009 @ 12:39:15 AM
Error Date : Thursday, January 29th 2009 @ 12:39:15 AM
Script : http://xxx/vbgooglemapme.php
Referrer : http://xxx/vbgooglemapme.php?do=addelement
IP Address : xxx
Username : Arthur
Classname : vb_database
MySQL Version : 4.0.27-standard

Any ideas why this could happen?

[akonze]

Ok, I took my time and read hundreds of comments. I tried everything. I applied the 'no markers shown' fix, I fixed the 'set names utf8' mySQL errors and i fixed some other bugs. It still does not work proper. This software is definitely not supported anymore. Futhermore the developer hasn't seen in ages. Running versions are not allowed to be distributed due to the stupid license for these less then 1000 lines of php code.

I give it up. My recommendation for other admins: Do not waste your time with this addon! I invested 3 hours and could not get it running and I have at least a few php skills.

[Big_J]

I spent about 1 1/2 hours on this today and now it works like it should. I did the patches listed back through the old posts, and now I am up and running, hondarebelforum (dot) com is the site if you would like to see it work. I believe I have it set so that unreg'd visitors can see the map.

[Phaedrus]

Hmmm.... Suddenly, after upgrading to 3.8.1, this mod which was running forever correctly just stopped showing some of the markers. Others work fine...

:dunno:

[dholt]

Hmmm.... Suddenly, after upgrading to 3.8.1, this mod which was running forever correctly just stopped showing some of the markers. Others work fine...

:dunno:

so is there a updated version for vb 3.8.0

[Phaedrus]

so is there a updated version for vb 3.8.0
I haven't seen one, and I haven't had time to figure out what the issue is, I have simply deactivated the mod and removed the link from my navbar until I have more time or somebody creates something.

[giper]

Hello,

I've had this mod installed and working great on my forum for about 2 months. Today, I got a pm from a member letting me know that all the member markers have been deleted from the map..... all I have now is a blank map. Any ideas why this would happen when I haven't touched any settings since it was installed?

Thanks in advance.

[Falcon Capt]

Hello,

I've had this mod installed and working great on my forum for about 2 months. Today, I got a pm from a member letting me know that all the member markers have been deleted from the map..... all I have now is a blank map. Any ideas why this would happen when I haven't touched any settings since it was installed?

Thanks in advance.Check to make sure one of your latest member additions didn't put a strange character in their pin text. Basically they should only have numbers and letters in their pin text, any other characters can stop the map from working properly (not display pins)

[giper]

Check to make sure one of your latest member additions didn't put a strange character in their pin text. Basically they should only have numbers and letters in their pin text, any other characters can stop the map from working properly (not display pins)

I will check right now.

Thanks for the quick reply. :)

[Falcon Capt]

I will check right now.

Thanks for the quick reply. :)Also check this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1665912&postcount=824

[giper]

Well, I don't think that was it. One guy had a few periods after his name.....

And another guy had a weired image link for his pimage so I deleted that but still none of the member markers appear.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks again.

[giper]

Also check this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1665912&postcount=824

I will check that out too, Thank you.

[giper]

Also check this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1665912&postcount=824

I just changed that code to your new code, then re-uploaded that file and I'm still having the same problem.

Do I need to change anything else before your new code will take effect, or is uploading the changed file all I need to do?

Thanks again. :)

[Falcon Capt]

I just changed that code to your new code, then re-uploaded that file and I'm still having the same problem.

Do I need to change anything else before your new code will take effect, or is uploading the changed file all I need to do?

Thanks again. :)That is it... I would also check all of your "old" members PIMIDs to make sure someone didn't "update" their pin with something that broke the code...

[giper]

That is it... I would also check all of your "old" members PIMIDs to make sure someone didn't "update" their pin with something that broke the code...

As much as I hate to admit it.... your last post has me lost. Could you explain in a bit more detail what this means, please? (sorry for being stupid :o)

What is a PMID?


Thanks again for all your time and help. :)

[Falcon Capt]

As much as I hate to admit it.... your last post has me lost. Could you explain in a bit more detail what this means, please? (sorry for being stupid :o)

What is a PMID?


Thanks again for all your time and help. :)I'm sorry, was thinking of a different plugin. I would check anyone who has a pin to make sure they don't have any weird characters in their pin text or PIMAGE. Even someone who has had a pin up for a while may have recently updated their info and screwed it up...

[giper]

I'm sorry, was thinking of a different plugin. I would check anyone who has a pin to make sure they don't have any weird characters in their pin text or PIMAGE. Even someone who has had a pin up for a while may have recently updated their info and screwed it up...
After updating the code and still having the same problem I decided to walk away from it for a while. However, I just checked it again and it seems to be working now. I have no idea why it wasn't working earlier but I have my fingers crossed it will be fine now. Is it possible that the scheduled "cron" task had to re-update before the change took effect?

Either way..... it works now!

Thanks again. :)

[Falcon Capt]

Glad you got it working!

[LCN2007]

I cant see the pins on the map i have triple checked the install and updated all user permissions in the settings & user groups.

http://www.localcobalt.net/forum/vbgooglemapme.php


I just saw that someone said there is a fix for this anyone have the post?

Any help would be great.

Thanks

[Nuguru]

Ooops--except there is still the apostrophe issue.

If I enter text that includes the word "don't"

It comes in as "don/'t"



Hello,

First of all, I would like to thank those of you here that have contributed answers and help to the less computer savy people like me.

On that note, I was wondering if anyone has figured out or knows how to fix the apostrophe issue that takes place as quoted above?


Thank you in advance :)

[principino1984]

the markers won't show up neither for me.

Vb 3.8.1

Has anyone found the solution?

Marco

[MagiKelly]

Working for me on 3.81 so I would guess you just have one of the known faults to do with an illegal image address or the use up a special character in an entry.

[principino1984]

Working for me on 3.81 so I would guess you just have one of the known faults to do with an illegal image address or the use up a special character in an entry.

did you do anything or you just installed the normal package?

Marco

[lpetrich]

MagiKelly, what happens when there is an invalid image address or some special character in the text? Have you tried ZeroHour's fix in post #697 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1456251&postcount=697)? That's worked for me and for several otehr people.

Phaedrus, it's rather troubling that vB 3.8.1 seems to have broken vbGoogleMap for you. I think that you ought to try ZeroHour's aforementioned fix, because by coincidence, someone might have entered some bad text or a bad image URL at the time that you upgraded to 3.8.1.

Is anyone else here willing to tell us their experiences with vbGoogleMap on 3.8.0 or 3.8.1?

towermatt, the \' instead of ' is an artifact of the text handling that will be hard to fix short of a major rewrite of it, to do JavaScript escaping and HTMLizing properly. And BTW, I think that the position-input system also deserves rewriting. I'm fairly familiar with the Google Maps API, but not so familiar with PHP or vBulletin's API, so I could offer only a limited amount of help. And where has StonyArc been?

[Nuguru]

the \' instead of ' is an artifact of the text handling that will be hard to fix short of a major rewrite of it, to do JavaScript escaping and HTMLizing properly

Thank you for that explanation....

Is there anyone else that might know a way to fix this apostrophe issue?



Thank you in advance. :)

[principino1984]

it doesn't work at all:

http://www.passioneadueruote.it/forum/vbgooglemapme.php


edit.... i found the problem...it crashes with AME - The Automatic Media Embeder ... anyone knows why?

Marco

[MagiKelly]

did you do anything or you just installed the normal package?

Marco

See my post here to explain the alteration I made

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1369344#post1369344

Other than that I have done nothing as my problems were always to do with invalid image addresses. I do check every so often to make sure there are no special characters in any other fields but so far all has been fine.

[principino1984]

I found my problem...is something with the AME product (The Automatic Media Embeder). If I disable it everything works fine.

Marco

[towermatt]

I run both at the same time and it seems fine.

[PtitLu]

I found my problem...is something with the AME product (The Automatic Media Embeder). If I disable it everything works fine.

MarcoIt's exactly the same for me. Thanks for the tip... but i need AME :(

[blazin1]

It's exactly the same for me. Thanks for the tip... but i need AME :(

Same for me :eek:

[principino1984]

yup..ok...it's that for shure. If anyone can find the solution please tell us

marco

[principino1984]

any idea?

[stieger]

Hello,

How can i install the German Language?

[Woodstock23]

hello,
i have a few questions;)

1. where can i find the copyright in the files? i need to restyle it a bit so it fits better to my current style (i will not remove it or something else)

2. how can i install the german language file

and 3. in my navbar i have the link "Googlemap ME" and my question is how can i change the name of this link in Map or something else?

thanks a lot, and the mod is great and works perfect.

[lpetrich]

1. You can search for the copyright text in the files; I'm sure that it's hardcoded somewhere in them. If you can find it, you may be able to find what styling gets applied to it and change it.

2. I think that you can install the German-language file with the Language Manager. It's in Languages & Phrases in the AdminCP.

3. You change "Googlemap ME" to "Google Map" or "Map" in your template edits.

[Rottimom]

Run this Mod on vB 3.8.2 ?
Problem: Member with rights cannot change entry.

[silly rabbit]

Other than that I have done nothing as my problems were always to do with invalid image addresses

Ditto here! Working FINE on a clean, fresh install of 3.8.1! Thx to all for posted corrections i have yet to accomplish, what follows is my admittedly rather hastily compiled collection of READING NOTES (to make "heads or tails" out of @ own peril!): www.vbulletin.org (http://www.vbulletin.org) vBGooglemap Member Edition (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=123148&highlight=Googlemap&page=6)

"Location" in postbit (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1088587&postcount=116)

Insert avatar cron script (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1168443&postcount=248) and let the displaygroupid determine the map pin color (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1239667&postcount=314)

problem: only zooms to 10 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1222804&postcount=298)

"return here" phrase correction (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1229801&postcount=303)

dhtml member menu in postbit (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1337824&postcount=489)

img breaks load (just disable) no zoom on detail still (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1342632&postcount=518)

the ability to upload multiple waypoints? (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1362844&postcount=555)

I see were Google added a new Marker Manager Control!
This will allow you to reduce the markers as needed with zoom levels (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1377629&postcount=587).

$smallmapcontrol = (fix?) (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1390087&postcount=618)

is there some way to set 5 location per user ? (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1396429&postcount=630)

IMG MARKER FIX (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1456251&postcount=697)

Some feature requests / proposals: (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1653460&postcount=800)
Mousewheel zooming
Mousing over only pops up usernames instead of full-scale info balloons
Ability to select terrain

ZOOM? (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1665912&postcount=824)

To fix this SET NAMES error (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1666495&postcount=829)(to choose "Terrain" as a default map type: NEXT POST)

a single user that can add multiple links on there(?) (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1702038&postcount=843)

CORRECTIONS ZIP? (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1702404&postcount=845)

Is anyone else here willing to tell us their experiences with vbGoogleMap on 3.8.0 or 3.8.1? (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1759728&postcount=893)
Stonyarc, thx for a great base concept which i plan on major modding to better suit my needs! If ya spent all yer time "supporting" endusers many of whom cannot even READ let alone CODE no new MODS would ever get written and we'd all be SOL!

This very long thread, as usual, was a nightmare to wade thru and while I did not find what I was looking for am still NOT SORRY INDEED!

[just77me]

updated to the 3.01 and now no parker shows up - whats the problem? please help me

thank you

[Selespeed]

updated to the 3.01 and now no parker shows up - whats the problem? please help me

thank you

See IMG MARKER FIX in the previous post. I had the same problem and it worked fine with me.

[MrAd]

so does it work for 3.8.x ???

[lpetrich]

In my experience, it does. Some other people here report it working successfully in 3.8.x.

[der_darkon]

I installed it on 3.8.2 and it works :)


But i have one question...
We switched from SMF to vB and i wish to transfer the locations of all users to this map. I tried to enter the data into the markers.xml, but this didn?t work (it showed on the startpage of the map the correct count, but the users did not show up in the list or on the map.

[lpetrich]

We switched from SMF to vB and i wish to transfer the locations of all users to this map. I tried to enter the data into the markers.xml, but this didn?t work (it showed on the startpage of the map the correct count, but the users did not show up in the list or on the map.
The problem is that markers.xml is an intermediate file that is composed from the contents of a table in the board's database file: googlemapme

If you can get direct access to the database, you may be able to bypass the manual-entry process or at least make it easier, though you'll have to know which vBulletin usernames correspond to which former SMF ones.

Short of that, you can ask everybody to re-enter their locations.


ETA: various bug fixes and feature additions by ZeroHour, Falcon Capt, and myself:

ZeroHour: marker-display fix (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1456251&postcount=697)
Keeps info-balloon text from causing XML-parsing errors and aborting the marker display if it contains certain characters

Me: several (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1653460&postcount=800)
Me: markers (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1653890&postcount=801)
Me: terrain display (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1669061&postcount=830)
Me: marker positions (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1669062&postcount=831)
Mouse-over showing username when info balloon is absent
Mousewheel zooming
Marker in location editor becomes vbGM red marker
Marker position in map fixed; it "points" to the right place
Added the option to show the terrain maps
Centers image in info balloon and imposes maximum size

Control of info balloon:
Admin CP > Vbgooglemap ME > ME Settings > Enable the mouseover support on the markers?
Set to No

Falcon Capt: position and zoom as URL args (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1665912&postcount=824)
Changed $HTTP_GET_VARS(...) to $_GET(...)

[der_darkon]

Oh, anybody has a clue why the content ist stored doubled?

I thought they would store it just in the file....

[lpetrich]

That database table is the primary storage for the map data. The file markers.xml is for the downloaded map page to read with AJAX -- it can't read the database directly.

[hbalagh1]

can't get markers to show, tried the fix found here

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1456251&postcount=697

but still nothing

but also i dont find anything in the task related to the maps to be able to update it

[hbalagh1]

anyone?

[hbalagh1]

nevermind for some reason after uninstallign and reinstalling it worked

[trotskid]

I?m very interested in this addon but it doesn?t work the markers on my forum (v3.8.3), even modifying the ZeroHour marker-display fix :(

Any solution to that?

Thanks

[trotskid]

EDIT: Finally works well on 3.8.3 with the files modifications. The problem was the AME addon (I´ve replaced for Passive Video).

[wacnstac]

What are the "Files Modifications" needed to make this work with 3.8.3 Will PAY for this to work with 3.8.3 if users can enter their own points (perhaps moderated) along with comments on the point.

[SorentoUltimate]

What are the "Files Modifications" needed to make this work with 3.8.3 Will PAY for this to work with 3.8.3 if users can enter their own points (perhaps moderated) along with comments on the point.

Hello,

can anyone write all the changes needed for the addon to work with 3.8.3 ???

Thanks In Advance
Giorgos

[wacnstac]

What would it take to make this work with 3.8.3 and also allow a user to enter any coordinates that they wanted and multiple points as well?

[Verionia]

I would like this for 3.83 too, please post the new additions to the forum, thanks!

[marshal_ramdev]

thanks

[lpetrich]

What would it take to make this work with 3.8.3 and also allow a user to enter any coordinates that they wanted and multiple points as well?
It already works in 3.8.3 for me and some other people; you may have conflicts with some other add-on like the Automatic Media Embedder (AME). You may want to check on the bug fixes and feature additions that several people have contributed, including myself.

As to entering coordinates numerically, that will require rewriting the client-side code in the product file.

Making it possible for each member to enter several points, each with their own labels, will require rewriting both the client-side and the server-side code. It may be possible to avoid changing the database-table format, however.

[Verionia]

Unfortunately I do have AME added into my site :[

[Ncturnal]

Unfortunately I do have AME added into my site :[

I've been running Google Maps and AME on my site for quite some time now without any issues.

[Verionia]

What about speed - that demo site forum loaded wayyyy too slow. Does anyone have this problem?

[FunkyDiver]

Well, I've fiddled for about 6 hours now.. on and off (so 3 hours real time) and not working...

*marks uninstalled as not doing what it should*

[team76]

still no solution for this problem?

http://www.teamvolt.fr/bf2/forum/vbgooglemapme.php

[Najoh]

Hello,

No markers in the map, please how to fix that ?

Thanks.

[sphinx]

works perfect here apart from..........everytime I enter maps it tells me my key is invalid,it isn't can click through but frustrating.Any ideas

[johnrizz]

I've been updating Vb since this came out and it works fine on all updates! right now I'm using 3.8.4....

[Parture]

When is the updated version of googlemaps and hotspot edition for vBulletin 3.8 or 4.0 coming out?

I have some proposed changes (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=178035).

[sphinx]

I think part of my problem is the java script can anyone tell me where to add it please.It's still the same and gives me a not valid key.If I go to sort another key it gives me the same one,any ideas please.

[Shai Gar]

ok i've got it installed on 3.8.4, i was also having the no marker problem, tried all the fixes in this thread, nothing worked untill i started disabling the other mods i've got installed, it started to show the markers after i disabled the Vmoods mod (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=217847)

[vwdforum]

Hi Guys.

I've noticed the pins do not appear on vbgooglemaps (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=123148) if I have AME - The Automatic Media Embeder 2.5.5 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=202476) enabled.

If I disable AME

Any idea how to fix this issue?

Thanks Mally

[trotskid]

Hi Guys.

I've noticed the pins do not appear on vbgooglemaps (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=123148) if I have AME - The Automatic Media Embeder 2.5.5 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=202476) enabled.

If I disable AME

Any idea how to fix this issue?

Thanks Mally

Due to this problem we're using Passive Video (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=188956&highlight=passive) :). I don't know if any fix exists for that..

[vwdforum]

Unfortunately I do have AME added into my site :[

It already works in 3.8.3 for me and some other people; you may have conflicts with some other add-on like the Automatic Media Embedder (AME). You may want to check on the bug fixes and feature additions that several people have contributed, including myself.

As to entering coordinates numerically, that will require rewriting the client-side code in the product file.

Making it possible for each member to enter several points, each with their own labels, will require rewriting both the client-side and the server-side code. It may be possible to avoid changing the database-table format, however.

Due to this problem we're using Passive Video (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=188956&highlight=passive) :). I don't know if any fix exists for that..

thanks, I've done what you've said, and not it works, bye bye AME!

[vwdforum]

I killed the image tab all together and fixed the display issue that had to do with the small overview map.

See working version here - http://www.arizonaquads.com/forum/vbgooglemapme.php

For now, if you don't have any image problems (invalid chars such as &) but still your map is broken, try this.

In vbgooglemapme.php, find this on line 107
$smallmapcontrol = "
map.addControl(new GOverviewMapControl(new GSize(150,150)));
var overview = document.getElementById(\"memap_overview\");
document.getElementById(\"memap\").appendChild(overview);";and replace with this
$smallmapcontrol = "
map.addControl(new GOverviewMapControl(new GSize(150,150)));";That kept the small overview map and fixed the display issue.

I'll post back tomorrow how to remove all the info about images if people want.

Could you explain how to remove the image tab in the bubble?

[vwdforum]

www.vbulletin.org (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/../) vBGooglemap Member Edition (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=123148&highlight=Googlemap&page=6)

"Location" in postbit (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1088587&postcount=116)

Insert avatar cron script (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1168443&postcount=248) and let the displaygroupid determine the map pin color (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1239667&postcount=314)

problem: only zooms to 10 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1222804&postcount=298)

"return here" phrase correction (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1229801&postcount=303)

dhtml member menu in postbit (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1337824&postcount=489)

img breaks load (just disable) no zoom on detail still (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1342632&postcount=518)

the ability to upload multiple waypoints? (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1362844&postcount=555)

I see were Google added a new Marker Manager Control!
This will allow you to reduce the markers as needed with zoom levels (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1377629&postcount=587).

$smallmapcontrol = (fix?) (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1390087&postcount=618)

is there some way to set 5 location per user ? (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1396429&postcount=630)

IMG MARKER FIX (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1456251&postcount=697)

Some feature requests / proposals: (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1653460&postcount=800)
Mousewheel zooming
Mousing over only pops up usernames instead of full-scale info balloons
Ability to select terrain

ZOOM? (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1665912&postcount=824)

To fix this SET NAMES error (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1666495&postcount=829)(to choose "Terrain" as a default map type: NEXT POST)

a single user that can add multiple links on there(?) (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1702038&postcount=843)

CORRECTIONS ZIP? (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1702404&postcount=845)

Is anyone else here willing to tell us their experiences with vbGoogleMap on 3.8.0 or 3.8.1? (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1759728&postcount=893)

[eh69]

any1 can sent me eng file?

i want translate this mod to polish.

[papabear99]

I very much like this function and it seems that we are aboot to ditch AME as well and purchase the Passive Video product

thanks, I've done what you've said, and not it works, bye bye AME!

[accludetuner]

working great on 3.8.4

Thank you!

[GoTTi]

Right I have my first fix. I will be editing this post with future changes so you can refer back to it and bookmark it by clicking the post number to the right.

Fix for no markers shown:

Edit:

/includes/functions_vbgooglemapme.php:

Goto line 49 which should start:
$text_file .= "<marker mapid=\"
Replace that line with:
$text_file .= "<marker mapid=\"". htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["mapid"])."\" title_map=\"".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["title_map"])."\" lng=\"".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["lng"])."\" lat=\"".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["lat"])."\" userid=\"".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["userid"])."\" username=\"".preg_replace("/\n|\r\n|\r/", "",nl2br(addslashes(htmlspecialchars(trim($get_xml_m arker["username"])))))."\" text_map=\"".preg_replace("/\n|\r\n|\r/", "", nl2br(addslashes(htmlspecialchars(trim($get_xml_ma rker["text_map"])))))."\" type=\"".htmlspecialchars($gettype['googlemapmetype'])."\" pimage=\"".htmlspecialchars($pimage)."\" />\n";


/includes/cron/vbgooglemapme_cron.php:

Goto line 58 which should start:
$text_file .= "<marker mapid=\"
Replace that line with:
$text_file .= "<marker mapid=\"".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["mapid"])."\" title_map=\"".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["title_map"])."\" lng=\"".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["lng"])."\" lat=\"".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["lat"])."\" userid=\"".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["userid"])."\" username=\"".preg_replace("/\n|\r\n|\r/", "",nl2br(addslashes(htmlspecialchars(trim($get_xml_m arker["username"])))))."\" text_map=\"".preg_replace("/\n|\r\n|\r/", "", nl2br(addslashes(htmlspecialchars(trim($get_xml_ma rker["text_map"])))))."\" type=\"".htmlspecialchars($gettype['googlemapmetype'])."\" pimage=\"".htmlspecialchars($pimage)."\" />\n";

Run the scheduled task and your markers should return.
Basically I have modified the code to replace things like "&" with the xml safe "&amp;" so no matter what anyone enters for the fields the xml should still be safe.

More tweaks to come including integration of the display groups being marker colour.

that is not working

[GoTTi]

im not able to show any entered data. i entered the location for myself and its not loading on the map. what am i missing?

[SorentoUltimate]

Hello,

i need your help,

when i turn 'Enable or disable the small map control (disable for better performance)' enablei have problem, the map appear but no markers(see attached screenshot).
also i need your help to create a profile tab with the location of the user to the map

[SorentoUltimate]

Hello,

I need your help to create a profile tab with the location of the user to the map.
Can anyone allready make that?
If no, can anyone help to do that?

Thanks In Advance
SorentoUltimate

[ivand]

Hi Guys.

I've noticed the pins do not appear on vbgooglemaps (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=123148) if I have AME - The Automatic Media Embeder 2.5.5 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=202476) enabled.

If I disable AME

Any idea how to fix this issue?

Thanks Mally

Hi, here is my simple fix for getting VBgooglemaps working when AME 2.5.5 is installed.

Go to the Plugin Manager and edit the "AME : Permission Hide" plugin (global_start).

Add in the beginning of the plugin code the following code:
if (THIS_SCRIPT != 'vbgooglemapme') {

At the end of the plugin code add a closing "}"

that's it

[Gamelobby]

Hi, here is my simple fix for getting VBgooglemaps working when AME 2.5.5 is installed.

Go to the Plugin Manager and edit the "AME : Permission Hide" plugin (global_start).

Add in the beginning of the plugin code the following code:
if (THIS_SCRIPT =! 'vbgooglemapme') {

At the end of the plugin code add a closing "}"

that's it

Exactly what i was looking for.. Worked like a charm. :)


*edit*

Well it worked, but i get this error across the top & it took away a few links in my navbar menu..?
Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in [path]/includes/functions_dto.php on line 49

Bummer.. still not fixed. :(

[ivand]

Exactly what i was looking for.. Worked like a charm. :)


*edit*

Well it worked, but i get this error across the top & it took away a few links in my navbar menu..?
Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in [path]/includes/functions_dto.php on line 49

Bummer.. still not fixed. :(

Deactivate this plugin and see if it works with no errors. On my site it seems OK.
I deactivated completely the AME : Permission Hide plugin

[mferguson]

Gamelobby uses our products (http://www.drivethruonline.com) on his web site and contacted me in relation to the error that appeared after he made the above mentioned patch. The error was actually a side effect of bad PHP syntax in the patch. This syntax error then caused other Global Start plugins to fail. To solve both the pin display issue and have the AME:Hide Permission plugin work correctly do the following:

1. Go to AdminCP >> Plugins & Products >> Plugin Manager
2. Edit the AME : Permission Hide plugin
3. Insert the following at the very top of the plugin

if (THIS_SCRIPT != 'vbgooglemapme') {

at the very bottom of the plugin append the following:

}

Save the changes and test vbgooglemaps to make sure the pins are showing up and no other errors are being displayed.

Hope this helps!

Best regards,

Mark Ferguson
President - Drive Thru Online (http://www.drivethruonline.com)

[Gamelobby]

These guys ^^ are the best..!!!
You never have to worry about thier products not being supported.!

[ForumUser210]

This is a crappy plug-in. All it does is gives me headaches.

The coding and design is just horrible.

[TNCclubman]

does this work with vB3.8?

[TNCclubman]

supposedly it works... since theres no demo. Does it show peoples avatar on the map or a marker? (please say avatar) automatically even better.

[TNCclubman]

I'll pay $200 U.S. if someone develops an iphone app for this that will ping their current location and update the map every 10 minutes.

I'll add another $200 once all the bugs are ironed out and it works 100%

[Gamelobby]

TNC..

Yes it works with 3.8, I have it on a couple different sites.
No it doesn't show avatar, but they have the option to add an image which could be their avatar, but its not automatic.

Those are great suggestions..
I suggest you go to www.drivethruonline.com & let them know your interest. (i have already) :)

[TNCclubman]

didnt one of the earlier versions show avatar? I noticed it was later removed... Is this something that can be turned on or was it a performance/security issue?

[tommydamic68]

For some reason I have to refresh everytime to see markers. Any suggestions?

[Tettinntil]

Installed this and it worked great.

The forum was then splitted, and all members inherited to the new forum. Now the "new" map shows all member groups from the old forum, i.e. members that were moderators on the old forum are still shown as moderators on the new version of the map. Can anyone tell me why the member's group is not updated?

[ATVTorture]

I can't get this to work on 3.8.4. It will show my own marker but when you "show main map", no markers. What the heck!!! Permissions on markers.xml is set to 777 and when I update my own marker, the time stamp on that file changes. Main map just won't show them.

[ATVTorture]

Does anyone know if there is a way with this mod to make it so a member can submit more than one lcoation?

We would really like to use it as a "riding area" map rather than a member location map. So, for our implementation we would need anybody to be able to submit multiple locations.

If not, does anyone know of a mod that will do what we are looking for?

Thanks!

[ATVTorture]

I found the problem with this to be that we had installed Automatic Media Embedder. With that mod enabled, it will not allow markers to show. With AME disabled, the map works fine in 3.8.4.

I can't get this to work on 3.8.4. It will show my own marker but when you "show main map", no markers. What the heck!!! Permissions on markers.xml is set to 777 and when I update my own marker, the time stamp on that file changes. Main map just won't show them.

[ATVTorture]

I was gonna make this change to my AME. But I am running AME 2.5.6 and my plugin manager doesn't have a "AME : Permission Hide" plugin (global_start)." All I have is "AME - The Automatic Media Embeder". Am I missing something?

Hi, here is my simple fix for getting VBgooglemaps working when AME 2.5.5 is installed.

Go to the Plugin Manager and edit the "AME : Permission Hide" plugin (global_start).

Add in the beginning of the plugin code the following code:
if (THIS_SCRIPT != 'vbgooglemapme') {

At the end of the plugin code add a closing "}"

that's it

[ckgreenman]

Does anyone know if it's possible to update a user's position in VBGooglemap_ME by passing it parameters directly? I came across an app on my Droid that allows you to send location information to a URL and I thought it would cool to find a way to update VBGooglemap with it.

[kall]

I was gonna make this change to my AME. But I am running AME 2.5.6 and my plugin manager doesn't have a "AME : Permission Hide" plugin (global_start)." All I have is "AME - The Automatic Media Embeder". Am I missing something?
Yup, you're missing the Plugin Manager and looking in Product Manager.

Product - Main Family of all plugins for a specific Product.
Plugin - the individual building blocks of php code that make up a product.

[eh69]

I used map form 6 months, but today i have error - i dont see any markers on full view.

i have ngnix + fcgi + php5 + xcache

please help

[SuncoastF]

Couldn't find a clear answer, is the users location taken from a profile field or a manual input from a user to the map?

[lpetrich]

It's input manually - it will make a mini-map where you can zoom and pan to get to where you want to make the marker.

[ATVTorture]

OK, found that and made the change. However, the markers still do not show.

What the heck?!?!?!

Yup, you're missing the Plugin Manager and looking in Product Manager.

Product - Main Family of all plugins for a specific Product.
Plugin - the individual building blocks of php code that make up a product.

I was gonna make this change to my AME. But I am running AME 2.5.6 and my plugin manager doesn't have a "AME : Permission Hide" plugin (global_start)." All I have is "AME - The Automatic Media Embeder". Am I missing something?

[lpetrich]

Has anyone tried vbGoogleMap in vBulletin 4.0?

At first sight, it does not look like much trouble, but it does have to access the database and check members' usergroups.

[SEW810]

Thnx.
Working just fine in vb 3.8.4

It would be nice if members could post more than 1 location :) (markers)

[ATVTorture]

Does anybody know of something like this that allows a user to submit mulitple location. I know there was the hotspot edition, which would be great. But it is no longer downloadable.

[Zylantex]

I have downloaded and installed, with great care I might add, but I see nothing on the AdminCp > vbGooglemap ME > ME Full View.
I just get "No Elements available [ Return to previous page ]".

I get the feeling I have missed something really obvious.
Any clues, hints etc would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Running 3.8.4 PL2

[Jeep07]

I was gonna make this change to my AME. But I am running AME 2.5.6 and my plugin manager doesn't have a "AME : Permission Hide" plugin (global_start)." All I have is "AME - The Automatic Media Embeder". Am I missing something?

This fixed worked for me.

thx

[Razfaz]

Any News for the VB4 Version?

[ckgreenman]

Has anyone tried vbGoogleMap in vBulletin 4.0?

At first sight, it does not look like much trouble, but it does have to access the database and check members' usergroups.

yeah fails miserably.

I've been so busy fixing other problems in vb4 that I haven't even messed with this one yet.

If I ever get adventurous I migth try my hand at converting it. But for now I'm stuck.

[syrn]

for vb 4.0.2

[tazping2000]

When I click [List users] one of the usernames appears as "dam&amp;chrys" :confused: .... it appears as it should elsewhere on vB as it should "dam&chrys". How do I fix this?

Just a minor niggle though, the plugin in A1... THANKS :up:

[lpetrich]

List users - where?

Seems like overzealous HTMLizing to me - one would have to change some of the plugin code to fix that.

[ckgreenman]

When I click [List users] one of the usernames appears as "dam&amp;chrys" :confused: .... it appears as it should elsewhere on vB as it should "dam&chrys". How do I fix this?

Just a minor niggle though, the plugin in A1... THANKS :up:

I think this is a problem in more than one place. I have a member on my forum called S&S and he has problems with searches and such. It's not just a problem with this mod as the problem I've seen exists in the vb4 delivered code.

[ckgreenman]

Well good news. I took it upon myself to see if I could get this mod to work on vb4 and I'm happy to report that it's about 85% there. So far I've got the map display working including current user locations, location set, location delete, and online/offline. All the settings also seem to be working (well at least as good as they did in 3.8.4).

Not working:
Enabling the small overview map makes user markers quit working (did this to me on 3.8.4 too), Turning on mouseover makes user markers stop working (did this to me on 3.8.4), Member List shows the right number of entries but all the data is blank, no map link in the Community menu, and no "Find Me" link in the post headers.

I'll keep plugging away at it until I get it all working. I also need to figure out how to do the product installation part of it as well.

[MagiKelly]

Great to hear this being worked on by someone. My members really liked this hack and miss it now we are on VB4

[ckgreenman]

Yeah, My members too which is why I decided to give it a try. I have the list users function working now and the mouseover seems to be working. The small overview map still causes the markers to not show up though. Also I need to work on getting the "find me" link working again.

[lpetrich]

ckgreenman, thanx so much.

Any opinion of the fixes that I'd made? I think that they are worthy of inclusion in some future version of vbGoogleMap. I'll hunt them down here if you want them.

[ckgreenman]

I must have missed your fixes. Shoot me a PM with some details. I can't imagine it would be all that hard to add stuff.

[ckgreenman]

Ok I talked with StonyArc and even though he is working on an OFFICIAL vB4 release he has authorized me release my vB4 version of this mod (3.0.1-vb4 for lack of a better version).

INSTALL:

1. To Install, unpack the contents of the zip file onto your computer.
2. Upload the contents of the "upload" directory AS IS so that the vbgooglemapme.php file
resides in your forum root
3. In AdminCP go to "Manage Products" and click the "Add/Import" link at the bottom.
4. Under "Import Product", click the "Browse" button and specify the "product-vbgooglemapme.xml" file.
5. Click "Import"

To UPGRADE from 3.0.1 (if it's still installed after you upgraded to vB4):
1. In AdminCP, go to the VBGooglemapME Settings and record your googlemap API key,
2. In AdminCP, go to the "Manage Products".
3. Scroll down to VBGooglemapME and uninstall the product. (user markers are not deleted so existing markers)
4. Unpack the zip file.
5. Upload the contents of the "upload" directory. (The only files that changed are vbgooglemapme.php and incluces/functions_vbgooglemapme.php so copying those is sufficient)
6. import the new product file.
7. Go to VBGoogleMapME Settings and put in your googlemap API key (and any other settings).

Note: The permissions will not be correct when you upgrade so you will need to rebuild the bitmask by visiting the Usergroup Manager. The masks should rebuild on their own but make sure your group permissions are as you need them. Also, the "Member Map" link resides on in the Community drop down menu which is visible when you click the "Forum" tab.

NEW FEATURES:
In addition to being ported to vB4 I added a few features that had been suggested on this thread.
You can now select "Terrain" as a default map mode.
Terrain is a selectable mode when viewing the map.
You can now zoom the map using a Mouse Scroll wheel.

If you have any questions regarding THIS VERSION please feel free to contact me here or via PM.

Enjoy!!

UPDATE: Apparently I missed one of the fixes that ZeroHour had posted so I'm uploading a new version that includes this fix.

[GoTTi]

Ok I talked with StonyArc and even though he is working on an OFFICIAL vB4 release he has authorized me release my vB4 version of this mod (3.0.1-vb4 for lack of a better version).

INSTALL:

1. To Install, unpack the contents of the zip file onto your computer.
2. Upload the contents of the "upload" directory AS IS so that the vbgooglemapme.php file
resides in your forum root
3. In AdminCP go to "Manage Products" and click the "Add/Import" link at the bottom.
4. Under "Import Product", click the "Browse" button and specify the "product-vbgooglemapme.xml" file.
5. Click "Import"

To UPGRADE from 3.0.1 (if it's still installed after you upgraded to vB4):
1. In AdminCP, go to the VBGooglemapME Settings and record your googlemap API key,
2. In AdminCP, go to the "Manage Products".
3. Scroll down to VBGooglemapME and uninstall the product. (user markers are not deleted so existing markers)
4. Unpack the zip file.
5. Upload the contents of the "upload" directory. (The only files that changed are vbgooglemapme.php and incluces/functions_vbgooglemapme.php so copying those is sufficient)
6. import the new product file.
7. Go to VBGoogleMapME Settings and put in your googlemap API key (and any other settings).

Note: The permissions will not be correct when you upgrade so you will need to rebuild the bitmask by visiting the Usergroup Manager. The masks should rebuild on their own but make sure your group permissions are as you need them. Also, the "Member Map" link resides on in the Community drop down menu which is visible when you click the "Forum" tab.


NEW FEATURES:
In addition to being ported to vB4 I added a few features that had been suggested on this thread.
You can now select "Terrain" as a default map mode.
Terrain is a selectable mode when viewing the map.
You can now zoom the map using a Mouse Scroll wheel.


If you have any questions regarding THIS VERSION please feel free to contact me here or via PM.


Enjoy!!

you should release this in a new thread as a new mod untill he releases his version.

[ckgreenman]

Well Since it's not my mod I didn't want to release it as such. Besides StonyArc's version should be out this Summer anyway. I just did this for myself and whoever wants it ahead of time.

[kylek]

New install on 4.0.3 and so far so good except for markers not showing on main map. Checked other addons and the vmood mod https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=233336&page=19&highlight=google is stopping the markers from showing. When its disabled markers show, when enabled none show.

Any ideas whats needed to fix this problem?

Thanks!

[ckgreenman]

New install on 4.0.3 and so far so good except for markers not showing on main map. Checked other addons and the vmood mod https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=233336&page=19&highlight=google is stopping the markers from showing. When its disabled markers show, when enabled none show.

Any ideas whats needed to fix this problem?

Thanks!

Do you have the overlay map enabled? If so try turning it off.

[kylek]

Not using the small overlay map.

[ckgreenman]

Hmm ok. Sounds like most likely there is a javascript conflict or something. I've never used the vMoods mod so I'm not familiar with it. I'll try downloading it to see if there is anything obvious that's causing a problem.

[MagiKelly]

It is worth checking if there are errors in the markers file. This is usually caused by an mistaken entry in the image file.

[MediaHound]

I used map form 6 months, but today i have error - i dont see any markers on full view.

i have ngnix + fcgi + php5 + xcache

please help

Check your xml for " or ' or ! characters or other characters that broke it.
It's probably the last entry ;)
Remove it, then save markers.xml
Then visit your actual entry on the map (/vbgooglemapme.php?do=addelement), and click save again, even if you didn't make changes. Visit your main map and its likely fixed again for the short term.

[MediaHound]

(self edit, disregard)

[Diablotic]

I am waiting for a new release for vB4. I have tried the one from ckgreenman but no markers on the map ;/

[zelnik]

Hmm ok. Sounds like most likely there is a javascript conflict or something. I've never used the vMoods mod so I'm not familiar with it. I'll try downloading it to see if there is anything obvious that's causing a problem.

Hi,

did you get anywhere with this as i really would like to install it but have vmoods installed :(