guys, i had "SNOW effect" installed that's why it didnt work... guess those two dont mix well.. When i uninstalled it, it worked fine again...

Maybe the programmer can find a way to make it co-exist without sacrificing functionality.... my ,.02cents

I'd love to have a small version of the map and have it displayed in a module for vBadvanced. I know that's beyond the scope of this.

Two request:

1) That in IE clicking the markers doesn't give a JavaScript error "Object doesn't support this property".

2) That a scrollable DIV on the right hand side lists all of the usernames, and clicking on a username centers that user on the map.

#1, something must be foobar on ur install, I don't get that on IE6.

#2, that would be cool and I think pretty easy.

THanks for this hack. I have been wanting to do this for some time. Now I don't have to. ;)

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2 critical options i think are:

1) Using zip code from users, it'll automatically track down your geographic location in the googlemap, so you dont have to manually do it yourself...

2)An icon link from the member profile when clicked will send viewer to the googlemap location of the member being viewed.

So, any idea when this will be released? =)

I would LOVE to see this but would also like to be able to include it in the postbit.

It appears that a hack I was running on my own forum (not published) which shows user selectable World Timezones below the nav bar was setting a param of the same name as one used by the Google Maps API.

What fun trying to trace that bug :)

There's a bug with the insert statement. If the username contains an apostrophe then the insert fails.

Simple solution, find the INSERT statement in VBGooglemap.php (there's only one), and replace $newusername with addslashes($newusername)... I've added slashes to $newtext_map too as I think that would also suffer the same problem.

Oh... and I've had to change significantly the HTML. The stuff in the hack is great as a prototype, but none of it is XHTML Transitional compliant. Biggest error being the missing close </html> tag, readonly not having value is up there, as are <img> tags not having alt="", and a lack of self-closing <br />'s.

stonyarc, if you want me to submit back to you my HTML changes, just ask.

Buro 9,

Thanks for your efforts.

If you could send me your changes, I'll drop them in the next version.

Done, sent to your admin email on your stonyarc domain.

Three files, two versions of the HTML as XHTML... one is a straight cleanup, the other includes changes to the layout to make it less cluttered and techy in appearance.


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And because I feel mean saying that and not allowing other people to have their mitts on it... and because this has a Share-Alike licence... attached are the three files I sent to stonyarc.

The three files are:

1. PHP File change.txt = You need to make a one line change to VBGooglemap.php, this file tells you what the change is... basically escaping part of a querystring.
2. product-VBGooglemap.XHTMLport.xml = Port of your HTML to valid XHTML Transitional (VB default encoding). If you just want the existing layout, publish this.
3. product-VBGooglemap.XHTMLportWithNewLayout.xml = Port of my version of the XHTML, simply hides some of the techier things from most users, cleaner layout and friendlier as a result. If you want a cleaner layout, publish this.

Though these are beta... in that stonyarc hasn't tested them yet, etc.

However if you are running bog standard and want to try a newer version... apply the file change in the text file and uninstall the existing product and reinstall with one of the above product files.

If your'e at all cautious... just wait for stonyarc to do his thing, he's been incredibly supportive on this thread so I've no doubt the new version will arrive soon and be tested nicely :)


NOTE: DON'T EVEN THINK THAT THE ATTACHED FILES ARE SUPPORTED BY STONYARC OR MYSELF... THEY'RE NOT! I'M JUST SHARING ALIKE.