To make this look good in all of my styles, is there a way to not only change the text color, but also change the balloon background color?

Excellent extension to vB. My members will love this :)

I've got it all working without any problems apart from the ballon colors don't work for the moderator groups. Only admin is shown as yellow and super mod and mods are shows as red - the same as normal members.

Do I need to specify the mod group ids anywhere?

Thanks.

Forgot to report this bug to you before, and it's still in 1.0.2:

Code checks for 5 characters, text says 10. :)

Also:

The trailing </div> should be inside the <td></td> I think.

Both non blocking issues are corrected in the version now online.

Thanks for the check

Great! Thanks!

One suggestion though, my forum is not a full screen width one and whilst your map fits in normal mode, when using the "Your Entry" link, the extra info box makes it too wide.

Any chance you could make this a pop up instead and use the co-ordinates of the main map, instead of loading a new one in a new window. A load of my members have complained they scrolled the main map to where they live, then hit "Your Entry" thinking it would setup their entry....

I removed the nowrap="nowrap" from the script.

You can reload the XML with Overwrite to YES. That should help fix your problem.

Does anybody have issues with the installation of the new version?

Running fine here ;)

Perfect and awesome :)

Only the marker colours for moderators show as normal members. Marker colour ok for admins.

Yes, I noticed this as well. All my moderators are Super Mods, if that makes a difference.

I'm the same as you ConqSoft, all my mods are supermods. I'm going to have a look at the code to see if I can find anything.

Ok here is what you need to do. In VBGooglemap.php

This is assuming your supermod group is 5

Find:

Replace With

Next, in your markers.xml file you need to edit your entries and change the type of each marker to yellow for all you supermods.

Upload and that should fix it :)

Everything is correct except the last part.

The marker is constructed by the script on load (for now).
So you don't need to edit it. The usergroup is inserted in the googlemap table in the database so next time the map is fully reloaded the marker colour will be changed.

1. Great! thanks for the fully phrased version!!! multi-language is the way to go!! :D :D

2. hmm... just tested with id with no special characters but still not showing any markers. :( me very sad.

plus my "current users" field is always blank. dunno if that's related. :(

any ideas?

GrendelK

It's a dataerror.

IE is handeling this a lot worse than Firefox.

I send you a pm that should fix it.

thanks! :)

getting this error msg (although the map works fine)

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /home/trevor/public_html/forums/includes/vba_cmps_include_template.php on line 9

code its reffering to
would adding vbgooglemap to that fix it or would that affect otehr parts of the forum?

That might do the trick to fix the portal integration. Make sure your download the latest version to. I just updated the files on 1.0.2 too.

Downloaded and uploaded the latest versioin

added 'VBGooglemap' to that array but to no joy, time to have a tinker :D

Anybody else got it running on the VBA??

Another suggestion.

With google maps there is the possibility to zoom in to a defined zoom if you click on a marker.
I realy would love to see this implemented

Keep up the good work

No problems at all, working perfectly. Thank you very much for another first class mod, I'm very much looking forward to future improvements.

After i changed my theme away from the default i lost the options to add yourself ect. Is there any way to fix this?

You have to add the buttons into each theme's buttons directory, not just your default theme.

I'm looking for someone to test the version 1.0.3 NOW

I think I got the Special character thing fixed.

I really wished this worked for me.

:(

Quote:

Volume warning Till the pagination is finished the map might slow down with high volume of users.

Is this warning just that it slows down the user's display on their own computer (client side), or does this mod put a large load on the forum server?

Would it be possible to restrict certain users from adding their lat/long? For example, I might only want senior members to be able to enter info, but everyone to be able to view. My forum has about 10,000 members so I couldn't imagine the map with 10,000 pins. :)

Thanks! - vissa

The restricted usergroups is planned for 1.0.4
1.0.3 will be released this week and the will cancel out a lot of the high volume load that was caused by the special characters in IE. That is fixed now.

http://www.xboxusersgroup.com/forums/VBGooglemap.php is running the new one already.

The map reads an xml file that is created by the script on the fly. The map construct is client side.

It's just a potential issue not a proven one. The queries and xml construct are very fast (certainly in the next version). The problem might be the javascript reading of the XML in very high volumes.

This is a warning issued by Google not by me. I would say just try it and if this occurs I'll try to find a solution.

Hi there!

Unfortunately this is still no good as my forum is only 780 pixels wide and can only just fit the map - with the "user details" window it expands way too much.

A popup to enter/edit details would be much better - and just taking the current co-ordinates from the main map...?

Is there any eta on maps of europe? (detailed) from google??

I'll work on a fix for you

At http://www.frappr.com/ you can enter your location directly based on the name of the city instead of zooming the coordinates. Is there a chance to get this in VBGooglemap?


CF

Clicks "Install"

This is planned for future versions. However except for the maps in the US, Canada and UK the other countries are not as detailled.

Moreover Global support would need a very large geocode database to contain all the latitudes and longitudes.

There are some posts about this in this thread. A solution is there but you would need a lot of infrastructure to support this. (eg webservice)

I'm having a problem.

IE6, VB is 3.5.0, downloaded the hack today (a few hours ago) and installed, encountered no errors during install.

When I enter "http://www.jjr512.com/VBGooglemap.php" as my URL in the address bar, the page loads fine and displays the world map across the width of the screen. When I click the "Your Entry" button, it goes to "http://www.jjr512.com/VBGooglemap.php?do=yourlocation", but the map does not show up. The part to the left of the map, with "Edit your information", the latitude and longitude box, marker text, etc., that's all there, but there's no map. The red and yellow pushpin legend is also there.

There's also a little warning indicator in the IE status bar, the white page with yellow triange over it with black exclamation point, next to the word "Done". If I double-click that little icon, the error message details is:
There is also a Previous and Next button on this error message, Next is grayed out, when I click Previous the details change to this:
What am I doing wrong? After 196 posts, and nobody else having this problem, I figure it must be me, not the hack, any suggestions?

Thanks! :)

How can I delete a member's mark?

Dan,

A member can delete that himself. Just click your location, check the delete function and click update location.

There is no admin delete yet. So as admin go the googlemap table and remove the entry or use the backend function to login as user.

As you can see I entered my marker without any problem
http://www.jjr512.com/VBGooglemap.php?do=showmain

I'm afraid this might be a local setting problem. But I'll surely check to make sure.
BTW Version 1.0.3 is just around the corner.

/edit

I updated the version to 1.0.3. I think the error will be gone now.

* starts uploading the new version