Hey Stony,

Have some additions for your roadmap. Are any of these even remotely doable for v1.0.4?

• Tie one or more custom or standard user profile fields to VBGooglemap, such that users who specify, say, their zip code or longitude/latitude coordinates in their profile automatically show up on VBGooglemap
• Tie one or more custom or standard calendar event fields in the same way, such that events that have locations defined show up in the map.
• Allow for multiple VBGooglemaps, so that there could be customized views of events, users, or whatever else might come up (views, different map instances, whatever)
• Driving directions to locations on the VBGooglemap

If I found away to do even one of the above, this extension would instantly jump up to killer app status on my forum.

It's like you read my mind on the functions I want to integrate :smoke:

The multiple googlemaps are in the works (including image support) but it's a whole lot of work. Together with vbstatextended this is my first vbulletin mod.

Events and hotspots are already on the roadmap.

The zip code is a tricky one due to the international character. I could make it a custom one specific for the states, UK or canada if only Google would hurry with the detailed Europe maps.

Not yet that status ?????? :devious: :devious:

All,

Version 1.0.3 is now online

Major Changes

The XML has no longer issues with special characters by adding a forced encoding statement. This was mainly an issue on Internet Explorer.

This makes the preparsing of the strings no longer needed. the only thing that is still captured is the ' ". The rest of special chars is allowed (encoding="ISO-8859-1") => performance is way better now so a lot of markers can be handled.

Some people got the error from an onload statement. The load of the maps is now done differently so that error should be gone.

I left 1.0.2 online to if you need to revert but I don't think so.

Please upgrade to the latest version

Sorry If I work that fast on the version but I want this to be a big App !!!!
I'll release on every milestone I reach so you'll have to keep up, sorry

I see that you did it OK.

However, I still cannot.

I suspected it was a local computer problem, as you do. However, I'm home now, and earlier I was at work. It's IE6 on both computers, but at work is Win98, and at home is WinXP. I get the exact same problem and error messages. I also upgraded to 1.0.3 and it didn't help. I've cleared my cache and restarted all browsers. I don't know what else to try.

I know what the problem was.

When I originally loaded VBGooglemap.php (both at work and at home), and got the full-width map, I started playing around with the map, scrolling around and zooming in. Then I clicked the Your Entry button and started getting that error message. I checked the googlemap table in the database just now, and saw that there was an entry for me, with all data except latitude and longitude. I deleted my record and reloaded the page and clicked Your Entry, and now the page appears to work just fine.

So the problem is that if somebody starts playing with the map before clicking that button, apparently a partial record is created in the database. But then when the script loads that partial record, it's choking on not finding the data it's expecting to find.

The best fix I can think of is to not make a record in the database if all the data isn't there.

Thanks for the catch. I'll build something to remedy the problem

Thank you, Stonyarc :)

Installed 1.0.3

This actually ranks lowest on my list but would be a "nice to have".

Oh OK, must have missed that.

Longitude/latitude would be a nice fallback for this, but I suspect most users would have no idea.

Er, it certainly is from my perspective I should have said! I'm just noticing that a lot of people don't input their info, and so the map has the appearance of being under-utilized at this stage.

Works beautifully so far, thanks for the update!

Thanks holmes, update ran through fine!

Upgrade worked fine for me. If zipcodes/postcodes were to be implemented I'd prefer them to be optional, as the databases are very sizable and if you can stick a pin in where you want they're not really necessary.

Aside from member avatars showing up in the boxes (or even custom images) and admin functions I'm happy as it is.