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

[Gizmo5h1t3]

installed, and runs a treat...
but, im still having the same problem on my board that i have with the vbplaza hack...where it WONT display PNG images......

so i had to rename them all to JPG...to get it to work.
if anyone has a workaround or solutionas to getting PNGs to display correctly, id be grateful.

the hack isnt the problem, its a VB problem im told...(something to do with imagemagick, and GD...along with PHP)??

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by Gizmo5h1t3

installed, and runs a treat...
but, im still having the same problem on my board that i have with the vbplaza hack...where it WONT display PNG images......

so i had to rename them all to JPG...to get it to work.
if anyone has a workaround or solutionas to getting PNGs to display correctly, id be grateful.

the hack isnt the problem, its a VB problem im told...(something to do with imagemagick, and GD...along with PHP)??

Well take note that I do provide the option in the control panel to switch the output to a jpg file.

Try that out and see if it works.

[Tracer Gun Kata]

Originally Posted by Trigunflame

Im pretty sure its there in the install.txt

Yer.. I missed that step.. I have extracted the file and am uploading.. god damn I am thick today :ermm:

[Gizmo5h1t3]

Originally Posted by Trigunflame

Well take note that I do provide the option in the control panel to switch the output to a jpg file.

Try that out and see if it works.

yes you do, and it was noted, but there were no jpeg files in the attached download??
as i said, i had to convert the png`s to jpg`s to get them to show.

what i didnt see was the instruction to run the cron job, to generate them...my bad...lol

not having a go mate, was just asking if anyone might be able to help.
was just hoping someone might be able to point me somewhere that explains why most people can see PNG`s, but others cant.....

[Tracer Gun Kata]

All working now.. good stuff :classic:

http://www.onlinewarfare.net/forum/online.php?

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by Gizmo5h1t3

yes you do, and it was noted, but there were no jpeg files in the attached download??
as i said, i had to convert the png`s to jpg`s to get them to show.

what i didnt see was the instruction to run the cron job, to generate them...my bad...lol

not having a go mate, was just asking if anyone might be able to help.
was just hoping someone might be able to point me somewhere that explains why most people can see PNG`s, but others cant.....

Ps. Redownload the zip file, and overwrite your current class_wmp.php with the new one, i made a fix.

Set the output type to jpeg in the control panel, and run the crontask it should output jpg type files.

It will automatically convert the files to jpeg format bro, GD image library takes care of that

[Trigunflame]

Update:

Fix a problem do to a typo in the configuration that prevents jpegs from being available for output.

[MorrisMcD]

Just to clarify.. This isnt like the Google Satellite Map thing where users place themself, is it?

Or from why I am gathering, this one will show up on whos online and automatically place them by their IP somewhere on the map?

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by MorrisMcD

Just to clarify.. This isnt like the Google Satellite Map thing where users place themself, is it?

Or from why I am gathering, this one will show up on whos online and automatically place them by their IP somewhere on the map?

Nope.. this is done automatically from the data in your Forums Database.

I was actually thinking about using the google/yahoo api.. but it wasnt realistic adding potentially hundreds of thousands of custom markers on a map system like those would be horrible resource wise.. not to mention the bandwidth needed to do it on each page load..

Thus this system build the image and saves it.. ie. no overhead.

[MorrisMcD]

Originally Posted by Trigunflame

Nope.. this is done automatically from the data in your Forums Database.

I was actually thinking about using the google/yahoo api.. but it wasnt realistic adding potentially hundreds of thousands of custom markers on a map system like those would be horrible resource wise.. not to mention the bandwidth needed to do it on each page load..

Thus this system build the image and saves it.. ie. no overhead.

Ok.. Cool.. Thanks.. It looks pretty spiffy.. I will probably install this later tonight or sometime this week

Thanks!