Vbulletin World Map System

Vbulletin World Map Plotting System
Show Your Guest/Members From All Over The World !!!

Summary:

The core of this system I developed approximately 3 years ago but was unable to practically distribute it on vborg due to the fact the GEOIP City Database was a very expensive software product; and it is needed to map IP Addresses to Global Lat/Lon Coordinates.

With the recent availability of a "Lite" version of the City Database I have decided to build from the ground up a new hack that utilizes it to display 2 map structures.

1. Plots Your Current Members/Guest Online available on the Whos Online Page.
2. Plots Your Registered Members last known Coordinates on the Member List Page.
3. Coordinates are calculated from IP Addresses stored in your Forums Database.

Features:

• Automatic & Accurate plotting of your Guest & Members on the WorldMap.
• WorldMap Page to view Both Maps, added to your navbar.
• Enable WOL, Member Plotting Independently
• Control Panel Options
• Specify Plotting Image Type, Size, Color
• Specify Opaque, Alpha Transparency
• Support for Payed Full Version of City Database
• Updates on Scheduled Task Interval
• Map is shown small and expands on Mouseover, then contracts back.

Instructions:

1. Download Zip File
2. Read INSTALL.TXT
3. Run the crontask manually the first time, so it will generate your images.
4. Click Install if you like it

Updates:
3/14/2006 - Forgot to uncomment keep-alive code.
3/12/2006 12:54pm -
1. Added a new Realistic World map
2. Configuration Editor partially remade, allows easier selection of Maps.
3/8/2006 11:35pm - Added a worldmap.php Page, for viewing both maps.
3/8/2006 9:52am - Fixed the jpeg output problem.

Note:

The GEOIP Binary Database can be located here:

http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoi...iteCity.dat.gz

[doggy1]

Anyone????? ttt

[vonedaddy]

Is there a way to stop it from expanding when you mouseover it? Thats annoying!

[yonglvnv]

Originally Posted by bplinson

Sorry if this has been answered before.

I do not seem to have any markers from Australia on my world map and I know that there are many people visiting from there. I have had the map running for about 4 days now.

Anyone else have this happening? Is this normal?

You might want to check to see if their IP address is being recorded. Mine shows from Australia.

[user02934123123]

Originally Posted by vonedaddy

Is there a way to stop it from expanding when you mouseover it? Thats annoying!

Yes: it's extremely annoying. Scan up the thread a bit: I posted the code previously, for replacing onmouseover() routines with onclick() routines, which will cause the expansion, etc., to occur only when you click the map, rather than simply roll the mouse over the top of it.

I've found display and use to be far nicer be separating out the expand/collapse functions from the map proper: my own display has to links just above the map: one to expand it, one to collapse.

[user02934123123]

I've just switched my test board to vB 3.6b1, and am re-installing all my hacks one by one. WorldMap seems to have a problem that I've never encountered when running it on 3.5.4:

After going through all the fresh install features, I went to run the cron task manually the first time via the 'Run Now' option in AdminCP, and recieved the following error, which recurs each time I attempt to run it:

Warning: getimagesize(): PNG file corrupted by ASCII conversion in /worldmap/class_wmp.php on line 140
Could not get map size.

To verify, the /worldmap/ directory is CHMODed to 777, and all files in the standard locations -- an exact mirror of how I have it configured on my 3.5.4 production board.

Any thoughts?

[SnitchSeeker]

This looks pretty damn cool! I'll look into it...

[user02934123123]

Has anyone yet been able to get this Worldmap hack to work on vB 3.6?

[dillon]

Since most people will just skim to the latest posts, here are some of the corrections listed all at once.

To make sure your navbar displays properly...
Add to the very first line:

$stylevar[htmldoctype]

Typo in code...
Change:

<title>$vboptions[bbtitle] - View All Thread Bans</title>

To:

<title>$vboptions[bbtitle] - Member World Map</title>

If you're like me, I felt the mouseover/out resizing of the images were too distracting. I played and played around with the code trying to get it to work like I wanted it to. It was mentioned to use onclick instead of onmouseover. This will work, but it doesn't do anything to get the image smaller again. So add ondblclick instead of onmouseout, and it works pretty good. It'll expand the image if you click it, and it'll shrink it back if you double click it.
Replace (2x)

onmouseover

With

onclick

Replace (2x)

onmouseout

With

ondblclick

[Quarterbore]

I am returning to beg for a 3.6-version too

[cherylferraro]

Originally Posted by Quarterbore

I am returning to beg for a 3.6-version too

I just installed it on my 3.6 board and it works perfectly. Give it a try, all template edits are the same.

Check it out at http://www.browncafe.com/forum/worldmap.php