Miscellaneous Hacks - Digital Point User Map

About
This is a system for geo-locating your currently online users and plotting them on a world Google Map. You can click any of the pins for a link to pull up the user's location in Google Earth.

This is something I originally made almost 5 years ago. Now that I rewrote it for vBulletin 4, I wrapped it up as a product package and released it for the world to use.

Installation

• Put the usermap.php file in your forum folder.
• Install the product-digitalpoint_usermap.xml product under AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product

Notes

• Important! - this uses the free GeoIP PHP extension, so you must have it installed on your server in order for it to work.
• Uses datastore cache so it does not repeat GeoIP queries unnecessarily.
• Upgraded to Google Maps API v3.

You can see a live version in action here:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/usermap.php

[Kaitou Ace]

Would the map be able to show usernames and link to profile? Maybe for staff groups only, or all users, but a configurable option for that could be handy.

[Gamershosting]

Hi all great mod and like the idea of it. However I have an issue. IT won't show up. I tried using Firefox and IE8. The page will display but no map.

In IE8 there is an error icon in the bottom left stating Done but with errors. When clicked I get this error message:

Webpage error details

Message: Syntax error
Line: 369
Char: 41
Code: 0
URI: http://www.gamershosting.net/usermap.php

In my phpinfo.php it shows this:

geoip
geoip support enabled
geoip extension version 1.0.7
geoip library version 1004006

Directive Local Value Master Value
geoip.custom_directory no value no value

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[wcguy]

Hi, nice ap too.

I am getting similar errors as above.

In IE8 a blank page, with these errors:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB6.5; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Alexa Toolbar; .NET4.0C)
Timestamp: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:49:40 UTC


Message: Syntax error
Line: 333
Char: 41
Code: 0
URI: http://www.XXXXX.com/usermap.php


Message: Object doesn't support this property or method
Line: 248
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://www.XXXXX.com/usermap.php

and

phpinfo

PHP Code:

geoip
geoip support enabled 
geoip extension version  1.0.6  
geoip library version  1004006  

Directive Local Value Master Value 
geoip.custom_directory no value no value 


[Pashaali]

install but it cant work http://www.desifunbox.com/usermap.php

just seen blank page . im use vbseo have to edit something ?

please help for it

[digitalpoint]

Did the USERMAP template not get installed somehow or something (the package installer should have done it automatically). Search your templates for a template named "USERMAP".

[wcguy]

I had an install error for the database.

all fixed now. Thanks!

Good app.

[Pashaali]

Fatal error: Call to undefined function geoip_record_by_name() in /------/desifunbox.com/usermap.php on line 100

[digitalpoint]

Originally Posted by Pashaali

Fatal error: Call to undefined function geoip_record_by_name() in /------/desifunbox.com/usermap.php on line 100

See first post/install instruction...

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

Important! - this uses the free GeoIP PHP extension, so you must have it installed on your server in order for it to work.

[Xencored]

Awesome installed Thanks its a ace touch

[sinucello]

Hi,

thanks for sharing this. I really like that your are using GeoIP. Unfortunately this map won`t be very useful for my community members without showing the usernames in the bubbles. So I dare to ask if you could add this as an option in a future release.

thank you - all the best,
Sacha