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 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!

[Tracer Gun Kata]

Its a great little hack.. wondering if a coloured map is possible? White is a little bland.. or are you limited?

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by Tracer Gun Kata

Its a great little hack.. wondering if a coloured map is possible? White is a little bland.. or are you limited?

Well I put the template maps in their own maps directory for a reason, it shouldnt be too hard to add support for more maps in the future.

[GamerJunk.net]

Couldn't I create a second page for the map? Give the members the option of choosing the whos_online map version or the old whos_online?

[Oddjob]

when i run the cron....

Warning: main(/home/webnoob/public_html/forums/./includes/cron/wmp.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /admincp/cronadmin.php on line 64

Warning: main(): Failed opening '/home/webnoob/public_html/forums/./includes/cron/wmp.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /admincp/cronadmin.php on line 64

Done

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by Oddjob

when i run the cron....


Warning: main(/home/webnoob/public_html/forums/./includes/cron/wmp.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /admincp/cronadmin.php on line 64

Warning: main(): Failed opening '/home/webnoob/public_html/forums/./includes/cron/wmp.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /admincp/cronadmin.php on line 64

Done

As said in the instructions.. the included wmp.php from the zip file must be placed in your vbulletin cron directory.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by RasMasta

Couldn't I create a second page for the map? Give the members the option of choosing the whos_online map version or the old whos_online?

You can do whatever you want.. all the template edit does is add a lil javascript to handle the auto resize..

Other than that its just a simple <img> tag.

[Oddjob]

Originally Posted by Trigunflame

As said in the instructions.. the included wmp.php from the zip file must be placed in your vbulletin cron directory.

I know, im a idiot....i just realized.

[ConqSoft]

I'm smelling a Hack Of The Month here....

Installed and working great:
http://www.fireblades.org/index.php?page=membermap

(Clickable for full size.)

[Trigunflame]

Nice, like how you did that