Major Additions - VBGooglemap Member Edition

Version 3.0.1 is currently available

This is the tested port of my 3.5.x version h(https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=99920)

You can now nominate hacks yourself for hacks of the month. There is a link on the right of hacks on top of the files.

Function
This will display the members of the Bulletin Board based on their lattitude and longitude coordinates on a googlemap.

Don't forget to hit install !!!!!!!
Please read the guide before asking for support !!!!!!!

Feel free to support this mod and make a paypal donation to admin@stonyarc.com

INSTALL

Detailed installation instructions and screenshots in the included pdf file.

Current Features



NOTE:
VBGooglemap 3.0.0 contains the vulnerability fix. Please upgrade immediately. Version 3.0.0. also contains all features from 2.5.X

As always you use modifications at your own risk.

VBGooglemap Member Edition 2.5.x brings you a lot of new features. It?s vital that you uninstall any previous version before upgrading/installing version 2.5.x.

Upgrading from version 2.5.0 is easier. Instruction are available in the guide.

As the uninstall function will not remove your googlemap data in the database but only the templates and files you can safely remove an older version. As a precaution you should always take a backup. This should be done on each major change you make to your bulletin board.

IF YOU ARE RUNNING VERSION 1.0.3, 2.0.X AND YOU CHANGED TEXT DIRECTLY IN THE TEMPLATES YOU NEED TO SAVE YOUR CHANGES AS VERSION 3.0.0. REQUIRES YOU TO UINSTALL PREVIOUS VERSIONS.

This has taken quite some work and still will take a lot more. Please give credit where credit is due. You cannot remove any notice without prior written permission.

Changes in this version

SEE FIRST POST FOR FULL ROADMAP AND HISTORY

Planned Features
- TBD

Volume warning

high volume of users may slow down the load. Currently a load counter is included.

Languages

Thanks to Wachtmeister there is a German translation available to you all. Feel free to use it.

The translation will be updated on each new version.

Special

- Read the attached PDF for more information. The pdf is also included in the zip file.
- You'll need a googlemap key for your domain. Get your own key for your domain view http://www.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html for more information.
A googlemap key is only valid for a specific domain. You'll need a specific google account to create one.
All is explained on the googlemap link indicated above.
- Set the file permissions on the marker.xml file to 777
- The googlemap script can handle non-registered users. They will only see the main map and won't be able to enter information. This is reserved for logged in users (detected automatically)
- usergroup permissions are available in the backend
- To change location just drag the map while holding the left mouse key or by using the zoom and key functions on the left
- First time loading of the map may take a few seconds longer because of Google API hosting



Special Xbox Live version
http://www.xboxlivenation.com/community/gamermap.php

Credits

This has taken quite some work and still will take a lot more. Please give credit where credit is due. You cannot remove any notice without prior written permission. Instructions are included in the pdf file.
Special credits to Google, Pyg for the javascript tips.


FAQ

The FAQ is included in the pdf file.

INSTALL



Feel free to support this mod and make a paypal donation to admin@stonyarc.com



(c) 2007 Stonyarc

[bainsey]

installed, amazing mod.

[stonner]

I have two questions:

1. Is it possible to set the user location automaticly over the ip adress?

2. Is it possible to insert all users automaticly?

[dmeister]

I live in the USA

Is it possible to use just a blown up version of the State of Connecticut?

Can We use this to plott other things than members, like customer store locations etc...

Thanks

[logofreax]

Mark as Uninstalled...

cause of the well known Marker Bug and no support by author.

Everthing I tried for several Weeks didn?t help to show the Pins longer than 1 hour

Now I use vbmembermap

cu
logofreax

[ZeroHour]

Right I am using this mod on my site and I have had a look through the rough code and found some fixes/improvements.
If you are having problems PM/reply here and I will try and help out as much as my time allows. I have 66 markers and no issues yet with vb 3.7 beta 5. I coded a improvement to get past the limitations of the user group part (it only changes the marker based on primary group and not based on display group) and have had no major issues yet.
I am not going to trawl through the previous posts looking for things to fix, I will just try and help those of you using it now.

GL

[ZeroHour]

Right I have found several bugs so far.
IF YOU CANT SEE ANY MARKERS:
Check your markers.xml file. It seems to be temperamental at formatting. I know that if the XML has " in the fields or "&" the markers will fail to load. I am working on a fix right now for my site and I will post the changes.

[ZeroHour]

Right I have my first fix. I will be editing this post with future changes so you can refer back to it and bookmark it by clicking the post number to the right.

Fix for no markers shown:

Edit:

/includes/functions_vbgooglemapme.php:

Goto line 49 which should start:

PHP Code:

$text_file .= "<marker mapid=" 


Replace that line with:

PHP Code:

$text_file .= "<marker mapid="". htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["mapid"]).""  title_map="".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["title_map"])."" lng="".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["lng"])."" lat="".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["lat"])."" userid="".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["userid"])."" username="".preg_replace("/\n|\r\n|\r/", "",nl2br(addslashes(htmlspecialchars(trim($get_xml_marker["username"])))))."" text_map="".preg_replace("/\n|\r\n|\r/", "", nl2br(addslashes(htmlspecialchars(trim($get_xml_marker["text_map"])))))."" type="".htmlspecialchars($gettype['googlemapmetype'])."" pimage="".htmlspecialchars($pimage)."" />\n"; 


/includes/cron/vbgooglemapme_cron.php:

Goto line 58 which should start:

PHP Code:

$text_file .= "<marker mapid=" 


Replace that line with:

PHP Code:

$text_file .= "<marker mapid="".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["mapid"]).""  title_map="".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["title_map"])."" lng="".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["lng"])."" lat="".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["lat"])."" userid="".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["userid"])."" username="".preg_replace("/\n|\r\n|\r/", "",nl2br(addslashes(htmlspecialchars(trim($get_xml_marker["username"])))))."" text_map="".preg_replace("/\n|\r\n|\r/", "", nl2br(addslashes(htmlspecialchars(trim($get_xml_marker["text_map"])))))."" type="".htmlspecialchars($gettype['googlemapmetype'])."" pimage="".htmlspecialchars($pimage)."" />\n"; 


Run the scheduled task and your markers should return.
Basically I have modified the code to replace things like "&" with the xml safe "&" so no matter what anyone enters for the fields the xml should still be safe.

More tweaks to come including integration of the display groups being marker colour.

[optrex]

Big Up ZeroHour, you saved me there dude.

[ZeroHour]

np

[ZeroHour]

Do you have a example?