Version: 1.0.3, by digitalpoint
Developer Last Online: May 2016
Category: Miscellaneous Hacks -
Version: 4.x.x
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Released: 06-08-2010
Last Update: 12-01-2011
Installs: 156
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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This is something I originally made almost 5 years ago.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.
Yeah pretty much any shared hosting doesn't allow the geoip plugin as I've been told over and over its "too resource intensive". (was looking for stats generated by awstats)
But I moved over to my own dedicated server and runs wonderfully
Sounds like a generic answer from your host because they didn't feel like installing it. It's INCREDIBLY *not* resource intensive...
I had thought about doing it that way originally, but decided against it because if all the potential complaints from end-users about privacy issues.
Would this be something fairly simple to add or would it require a lot of work? I don't know much about modding. I think it might be possible to add a check box to the registration page to accept being added to the member map. Might be cool to look into :-)
There's nothing really *to* import since mine is locating the user in realtime based on their IP address. That one appears to really just be a system where each user can put an arbitrary pin on the map (since the user can put it anywhere they want). If you want something like that, you probably would just want to ask the developer to update it since it's really something different.
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Originally Posted by Tryppnotic69
Would this be something fairly simple to add or would it require a lot of work? I don't know much about modding. I think it might be possible to add a check box to the registration page to accept being added to the member map. Might be cool to look into :-)
Eh... it would be possible, but having people opt-into it would also have the affect of very few users actually using it. Personally, I like it the way it is now where it's a little more anonymous, but all users are on it.
unistalled because no GeoIP on my server. Now I've an MySQL error...
Database error in vBulletin 4.0.3:
Invalid SQL:
SELECT languageid,
phrasegroup_global AS phrasegroup_global,
phrasegroup_usermap AS phrasegroup_usermap,
options AS lang_options,
languagecode AS lang_code,
charset AS lang_charset,
locale AS lang_locale,
imagesoverride AS lang_imagesoverride,
dateoverride AS lang_dateoverride,
timeoverride AS lang_timeoverride,
registereddateoverride AS lang_registereddateoverride,
calformat1override AS lang_calformat1override,
calformat2override AS lang_calformat2override,
logdateoverride AS lang_logdateoverride,
decimalsep AS lang_decimalsep,
thousandsep AS lang_thousandsep
FROM vb_language
WHERE languageid = 2;
MySQL Error : Unknown column 'phrasegroup_usermap' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Friday, June 11th 2010 @ 08:13:14 AM
Error Date : Friday, June 11th 2010 @ 08:13:14 AM
Script : http://www.mysite.it/usermap.php
Referrer :
Username :
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :
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