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

[Raydar]

Great idea for a hack.

I think my users will love this.

Does it work on Vb 3.6 yet please?

Also, how much load does something like this put on the server please?

Thanks

Reggie

[bada_bing]

This is a nice map system but for my forums since its not based from world wide but rather several US States, is there a way to set the map to stay zoomed in closer to certain states like the Googlemap hack rather then then entire world?

[hnjco]

Is this working for 3.6.4?

[steven s]

Originally Posted by hnjco

Is this working for 3.6.4?

Yes.
http://www.318ti.org/forum/worldmap.php

[Raydar]

I am installing this onto 3.6.4.

Do I need to insert a varname for the scheduled tasks part? Also down the bottom of the scheduled tasks page it has a drop down menu called 'products'. I imagine that I select world map plotter with this menu?

Thanks

Reggie

[Raydar]

Okay, all installed, it looks awesome.

In answer to my question (in case someone else wants to know) I set the varname to WMP and selected the world map plotter as the product in scheduled tasks.

I have changed the behaviours. Onmouseover to onclick, which works well, but the mouseout code to ondblclick, doesn't seem to work properly. It just makes the page move a bit. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong please?

Thanks

Reggie

[Morrighan256]

Again, I have to ask--I've reinstalled this, downloaded and installed the most current GeoCityLite.dat file, checked the permissions on the directories, checked the chronjob, and I haven't updated my forum to 3.6; I'm still running 3.5.4. As the developer's gone off, could anyone give me a hand with this and tell me why it might have stopped updating? My members loved it, but it's not much use when it won't update. My undying gratitude for any help.

[Raydar]

G'day mate,

If it is not updating, it sounds like the Scheduled Tasks has not been set up properly.

Check your settings against mine.

Attachment 62451

Hope that helps.

Reggie

[Morrighan256]

No, it says it's running--it's scheduled for every fifteen minutes and was just done five minutes ago, as of the time of this post.

[Raydar]

Hi Mate

Some hosts don't allow cron jobs to run automatically. I had this problem on a singles site I run. You should maybe check with your host that there is no restriction. This is the norm on many clustered servers.

Who is that girl in the pink dress? I'm very easily distracted by bright shiny colours.

Regards

Reggie