Miscellaneous Hacks - Digital Point User Map

About
This is a system for geo-locating your currently online users and plotting them on a world Google Map. You can click any of the pins for a link to pull up the user's location in Google Earth.

This is something I originally made almost 5 years ago. Now that I rewrote it for vBulletin 4, I wrapped it up as a product package and released it for the world to use.

Installation

• Put the usermap.php file in your forum folder.
• Install the product-digitalpoint_usermap.xml product under AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product

Notes

• Important! - this uses the free GeoIP PHP extension, so you must have it installed on your server in order for it to work.
• Uses datastore cache so it does not repeat GeoIP queries unnecessarily.
• Upgraded to Google Maps API v3.

You can see a live version in action here:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/usermap.php

[Gamelobby]

lmao..

Is there something i need to do to upload or enable it or something, or do you really just think they lied to me.? lol (not that i doubt they would lie, im just asking)

[digitalpoint]

I'm not saying they lied to you... just that they are mistaken about it being installed. Probably they thought they installed it, but for whatever reason it's not installed properly.

You could try a stand-alone PHP file with any of these functions...

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.geoip.php

If the server tells you that the function isn't available, well... it's not available/installed.

The simplest one would probably just the be the call to get info about the geotargetting database:

PHP Code:

<?php

echo geoip_database_info();

If that PHP file throws an error, ask your hosting provider why that would be if it's installed.

[Lautaro]

for some reason this plugin didn't work for me. I just get a blank page.

I installed the Spy and Thread Avatars and both are working fine but not this one.

[asj]

Fatal error: Call to undefined function geoip_record_by_name() in /home/arabdeaf/public_html/usermap.php on line 100 ?

[Boofo]

Do you have GeoIP installed on your server?

[datoneer]

I need to wait next version of GeoIP to be installed on my server. They told me that

[Boofo]

Why did they tell you to wait?

[datoneer]

Geoip has had security issues and we're waiting on the new release to install

[Boofo]

This is the first I have heard about it. I've had it installed on the server for quite awhile now with no complications. Sounds like someone is giving you a line, for whatever reason.

[datoneer]

I'll wait what else can i do