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

[Morrighan256]

Okay, I'll check with my host. My avatar's part of a picture by Blackeri, a Polish digital artist. Her work is gorgeous.

[hnjco]

Installed and Clicked

Working great on 3.6.5

http://www.geopakistani.net/gpforums/worldmap.php

[imported_lean]

hi all im trying to find

10. + Open your styles navbar template

- Find <td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="memberlist.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[members_list]</a></td>

- Under this place the following:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="worldmap.php$session[sessionurl_q]">Members World Map</a></td>

- Save the template.

from the intall guide but i cannot find where all this is..also when i have done this part im not quite sure about step 11.

any help would be mightly appreciated

[imported_lean]

weeeeeeeeee sorted it !

[TotalTorque.net]

Quick question - what if you don't want a world map - but a country specific one?

99% of our user base will be in the UK, so a UK map would be great, but if its a world one (especially if you can't zoom in, or can you?) then it'd be little use.

[keharris53]

Not sure what I did wrong. Link brings up blank page. Error when manually running scheduler: No Value Given For GEOIP Database. World Mapper does not show up in Vb Admin Options. Thanks.

[keharris53]

okay, didn't handle the xml properly. Finally got through all the posts and found my answer. I just learned something. Thanks.

[keharris53]

The maps are working great! I do have one skin option wherein the map width causes my borders to break. I've found what appears to be the max size on mouseover. How do I go about downsizing the original map (realistic) to fit within my table? Thanks.
This appears to be a problem with Firefox2. IE is okay, except borders are broken on mouseover.

Disregard. Though it does break borders on expansion, that's minor. The actual problem was realized when I removed the link from my navbar. Yep! So, now I'll just modify to add another navbar row. Thanks.

[pbmansion]

Working with 3.6.7 PL !!


http://www.pbmansion.com/forums/worldmap.php

[Total666]

WOrks great on 3.68