The users reporting issues, all with Firefox, are not seeing maps that are in the first post of a thread. They do see subsequent ones in the thread, though.

Tralala, those with problems are running Firefox or Firefox 2? I developed this in Firefox 1.5.0.10 and tested in IE7.

So far, everyone reporting issues are using Firefox 2. The weird thing is that it's not consistent... some folks using Firefox 2 can see the maps just fine.

And the folks who are having problems, can see some maps, but not all of them. I think the issue is that the first map in a thread doesn't show up for them.

Hrm. I'll install FireFox 2 on another PC in a bit and check -- the fact it's so inconsistent is making me lean towards the problem being end-user related, such as an Extension or AddOn causing a conflict.

I don't know if it's possible, but what would really help is if you could get the 'View Source' output from one of the users experiencing the problem. :D

If I haven't said it before, Tralala, thanks for the help you've provided so far. You've been integral in getting things where they are now.

I was leaning that way at first too, but I've got the problem reports coming in from 7 or 8 folks now, and some of them have no extensions installed, just a clean Firefox 2.

That won't be a problem. I'll ask one of the savvier users for that and will get back to you.

My pleasure. And thanks for your continued dedication to making it work perfectly. When it's all sorted out I'm sure it will be a very appreciated add-on for very many forums, and for that you should be proud. Thanks for sharing it. :)

New information: it appears to be a CDATA problem, specific to my forum's default skin. As best I can tell, it is working fine in the stock vB skin for everyone.

So as not to derail this thread any further, I'll send specific details to magnus via PM.

Now this is working perfectly for me (:up:)

I notice that entering just a city, state and zip (like you can with maps.google.com) doesn't work with Phoogle. For example, "Gerlach, NV 89412" gave me a blank space. I had to make up a fake street (in this case, "100 Main Street") for it create a map at all.

Also it'd be cool if there was an option to dictate whether the Phoogle map should be in satellite or hybrid format instead. And a way for the user to override the default zoom level.

In the current development version, valid inputs are lat/log, as well as city, state, zip. So, that's covered.

As for allowing the user to set options other than labels and addresses, I don't really see how. BBCode accepts 2 variables:

I don't see where I could add any extra variables. :(

Excellent!
Not sure if it will help any, but take a look at this hack I've been using on my forum for awhile now... it embeds all sorts of media via BBcode... but it allows for five options: width, height, autostart, loop, extension.
(Maybe that code will shed some light on how to work around the limitation.)



Another suggestion: when an invalid address is entered, or one that gets no search results, throw up a default "Error" or "no map data" image, rather than just a blank space.

I'll check it out.


Already done. :)