i'm stuck on step 5...how do i extract the .dat from the .dat.gz?

WinZip will do it if you're on Windows. Or ftp it up to your server, telnet in, and use gzip to extract it.

thanks...guess i had a brainfart for a minute

i was also wondering if someone would be kind enough to show me how to turn the members list link into a dropdown that had the members list and the map in it?

also...in the readme...the two optional items...what do they do?..

Add the maps to the top of the member's list and who's online pages.

I added these maps... Well.. Overwrote the old ones with these I should say.. Then I reran the cron job... My maps didnt change.. am I forgetting to do something?

If you are using the transparent option so that your background shows through you may not notice much has changed since all I did was set the Med sea to transparent.

If you are not using the transparent option then the new coloured map should appear - all I did was replace the old map in ./forum/worldmap/maps with the new one, ran the cron job manually and then refreshed the page and it used the new map.

Hello,

great plugin! But does it really count online users & guests? i have 81 people online 15 users and 66 guests and only see about 20 red points. Is it, because most of them come frmo the same city or does it miss some?

It could miss some if the IP isn't in the database I guess. Plus, this is the LITE version of the database, so it may not be as complete as the one you can purchase.

will changing the minutes in the cron from 14,29,44,59 to 5 make it run every 5 minutes?

ok.. yea.. i had to turn transparency off!! :D Thanks

If you want it to run every 5 minutes you would have to have several cron entries.

1st one: 5, 10, 15, 20
2nd one: 25,30,35,40
3rd one: 45,50,55,00

thanks much...i think that all my questions...so maybe i'll shut up now :D

Thanks guys for helping with support while im working on other stuff :)

It would be cool if when click on the '+' it would show the username and the ip.

Maybe in the next version!!??

That's not really feasible for a site with a lot of members; They're all on top of each other (view my map). I think this hack is more just to show your coverage area.

If you want user detail, the Google Map hack (or www.frappr.com) would be a good choice.

This hack was created for the purpose of showing a generalized global perspective of your member base.

That being said, its not practical to load potentially several thousands of user coordinates into a client side google system like that on each page load.

1. Extra Bandwidth
2. More Memory Usage

Ya I figured 15 minute interval would be a nice compromise for default values.

Will it mess anything up if I cut the "dead space" off the bottom of the original map images?

It shouldnt, but I havnt tried it so I don't know ;)

Yep, it does mess it up. :( I guess it plots from the bottom up. :)

I doubt it, more than likely due to imagesize calculations that I perform for scaling coordinates to the map.

Setting static values for height/width on the x,y code that determines plot location would probably fix what you're trying to do.

this hack rocks! thank you!

Great hack!

/me installs

Why thankyou ;) :bunny:

This is pretty fancy.

Is it possible to not allow the enlarged map on mouse over and just leave the normal?

I've got a question and a suggestion :

• Did you use phrases for this hack ? I was trying to find phrases using phrases search but didn't find any .If you didn't I hope you do with the next release ,this make life a bit more easy :)
• Also since the search engines spiders could be a large factor ,keeping a track of them will be unrealistic indication about the forum guests .maybe you can add an option to exclude them .

Other than that I can say nothing but thanks again for that hack .

Fantastic hack, thank you.

Simply awsome!

http://www.timeshareforums.com/worldmap.php#

Edit:

Go into the maps template and remove the onmouse over function - works like a charm.

ok question on my All Members map its not showing nothing but on my Members/Guest Online map it displays it correctly what do you think would cause it from not showing on the first map?

1. There are several phrases used, somewhere around 10 I believe. So look harder, ;)

2. Not likely unless more people request it..

They both should show up regardless if there is any data on them or not.. you sure both files are present in the maps directory?

sorry if i didnt word it right both map images are showing up but on All Members map its not logging the members location on it.... it will for online users on the Members/Guest Online but it dont display the mark for All Members... i see the red crosshair on Members/Guest Online but as for All Members it hasent logged one yet... any thoughts on why and sorry i didnt give more info in first post...

No idea, no one else has reported this issue. You may not have any post on your forum?

Do you have this option turned on?

Good idea :)

Awesome, thanks!

i have it set to Display, but require administrator or moderator is that ok? im going to make another post in the forum also see if that works .... thanks for quick response ill let you know thanks

nope still nothing it still only shows them on Members/Guest Online but not on the other map