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

[creedmaniac]

i'm stuck on step 5...how do i extract the .dat from the .dat.gz?

[ConqSoft]

WinZip will do it if you're on Windows. Or ftp it up to your server, telnet in, and use gzip to extract it.

[creedmaniac]

thanks...guess i had a brainfart for a minute

i was also wondering if someone would be kind enough to show me how to turn the members list link into a dropdown that had the members list and the map in it?

[creedmaniac]

also...in the readme...the two optional items...what do they do?..

[Darat]

Add the maps to the top of the member's list and who's online pages.

[MorrisMcD]

Originally Posted by Darat

I've colourised the map if you want to use it you can just replace your World100.png with this one - the filesize is somewhat larger!

Also in the original installation pack the PNG with transparency has the Mediterranean and a few other areas as solid, I've attached a corrected World100a.png.

I added these maps... Well.. Overwrote the old ones with these I should say.. Then I reran the cron job... My maps didnt change.. am I forgetting to do something?

[Darat]

If you are using the transparent option so that your background shows through you may not notice much has changed since all I did was set the Med sea to transparent.

If you are not using the transparent option then the new coloured map should appear - all I did was replace the old map in ./forum/worldmap/maps with the new one, ran the cron job manually and then refreshed the page and it used the new map.

[Wachtmeister]

Hello,

great plugin! But does it really count online users & guests? i have 81 people online 15 users and 66 guests and only see about 20 red points. Is it, because most of them come frmo the same city or does it miss some?

[ConqSoft]

It could miss some if the IP isn't in the database I guess. Plus, this is the LITE version of the database, so it may not be as complete as the one you can purchase.

[creedmaniac]

will changing the minutes in the cron from 14,29,44,59 to 5 make it run every 5 minutes?