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

[MorrisMcD]

Originally Posted by ReadOrDie

Thanks for the link but I don't even know what half the stuff means. Does anyone else have any help? Instead of telling me to extract the.rar file when there is no .rar file

You arent going to get much help acting like this... With WinRar you can extract just about anything... If you dont have it.. Get it.. rarlabs.com

Once installed, grab the file (gz, rar, zip, WHATEVER) with you right mouse button.. Drag it somewhere and tell it to extract to whatever folder you want. If you cant figure this out, I seriously worry about the condition of your board once you attempt a few hacks

(has installing hacks become THAT easy where unzipping is more challenging?)

[ReadOrDie]

I go to winrar I have the file listed there, I click the "extract to" button. It gives me a whole bunch of options and I leave them as they are which would be the default. It then gives me a diagnostic message saying something like C: documents/owner could create geocitylite.dat then there's a whole bunch of wierd characters I don't understand. After that I look in my documents folder and I have a geocitylite.dat file that's 0 bytes.

[MorrisMcD]

Originally Posted by ReadOrDie

I go to winrar I have the file listed there, I click the "extract to" button. It gives me a whole bunch of options and I leave them as they are which would be the default. It then gives me a diagnostic message saying something like C: documents/owner could create geocitylite.dat then there's a whole bunch of wierd characters I don't understand. After that I look in my documents folder and I have a geocitylite.dat file that's 0 bytes.

Try extracting it to a different location.. Sounds like a permissions issue

[DementedMindz]

ok why click extract why dont you drag and drop like i have said?? do you know how to drag and drop? its really not that hard open the folder up drag the file inside out... upload that file you cant be any more clearer then that...

[ReadOrDie]

Originally Posted by DementedMindz

ok why click extract why dont you drag and drop like i have said?? do you know how to drag and drop? its really not that hard open the folder up drag the file inside out... upload that file you cant be any more clearer then that...

There is no drag drop.

I'm still getting the error because I cannot change the destination path, I've chosen every destination path on my computer it won't change.

Another solution would be for someone to send me the file at my email afterlifex@gmail.com

[DementedMindz]

like i asked do you know how to drag and drop? how long have you used a pc for? its not hard open the folder click the dat file so its highlighted hold your right mouse key down and drag it to your desktop and drop it there... that is drag and drop..... ok now that we have that down then open your ftp and upload that dat file... the file is over 23 mbs its a big file... if you cant get it your next option is to uninstall it

[ReadOrDie]

Originally Posted by DementedMindz

like i asked do you know how to drag and drop? how long have you used a pc for? its not hard open the folder click the dat file so its highlighted hold your right mouse key down and drag it to your desktop and drop it there... that is drag and drop..... ok now that we have that down then open your ftp and upload that dat file... the file is over 23 mbs its a big file... if you cant get it your next option is to uninstall it

I did that and this is the file that I get after opening the .gz file then dragging it to the desktop:
GeoLiteCity.dat L?_?%??5_????׾kۚ???zwֶm۶m۶m۶?ݯn??__oDEFVuvV V??s??_h_P

The file is 0 bytes.

[Lazarous]

Fantastic hack, many thanks...

Quick question. I have some users that are having problems using this as the map is expanding too much (please see attached screen shot).

Is there anyway I can reduce the size that it expands. It appears I have some laptop users with laptops that are clearly as old as the dawn of time!

[Darat]

In the install instructions in the template edits section there is a line that looks like this:

<td class="alt1"><a href="#" onmouseover="wmpsu('wmp_wol', 1080, 539)" onmouseout="wmpsd('wmp_wol', $vboptions[wmp_defaultsize])">

I think changing the "1080,539" will alter the zoom amount.

[Lazarous]

Darat, thanks for the quick reply. I tried changing this and it did not seem to work, so am a little lost!