Major Additions - VBGooglemap Member Edition

Version 3.0.1 is currently available

This is the tested port of my 3.5.x version h(https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=99920)

You can now nominate hacks yourself for hacks of the month. There is a link on the right of hacks on top of the files.

Function
This will display the members of the Bulletin Board based on their lattitude and longitude coordinates on a googlemap.

Don't forget to hit install !!!!!!!
Please read the guide before asking for support !!!!!!!

Feel free to support this mod and make a paypal donation to admin@stonyarc.com

INSTALL

Detailed installation instructions and screenshots in the included pdf file.

Current Features



NOTE:
VBGooglemap 3.0.0 contains the vulnerability fix. Please upgrade immediately. Version 3.0.0. also contains all features from 2.5.X

As always you use modifications at your own risk.

VBGooglemap Member Edition 2.5.x brings you a lot of new features. It?s vital that you uninstall any previous version before upgrading/installing version 2.5.x.

Upgrading from version 2.5.0 is easier. Instruction are available in the guide.

As the uninstall function will not remove your googlemap data in the database but only the templates and files you can safely remove an older version. As a precaution you should always take a backup. This should be done on each major change you make to your bulletin board.

IF YOU ARE RUNNING VERSION 1.0.3, 2.0.X AND YOU CHANGED TEXT DIRECTLY IN THE TEMPLATES YOU NEED TO SAVE YOUR CHANGES AS VERSION 3.0.0. REQUIRES YOU TO UINSTALL PREVIOUS VERSIONS.

This has taken quite some work and still will take a lot more. Please give credit where credit is due. You cannot remove any notice without prior written permission.

Changes in this version

SEE FIRST POST FOR FULL ROADMAP AND HISTORY

Planned Features
- TBD

Volume warning

high volume of users may slow down the load. Currently a load counter is included.

Languages

Thanks to Wachtmeister there is a German translation available to you all. Feel free to use it.

The translation will be updated on each new version.

Special

- Read the attached PDF for more information. The pdf is also included in the zip file.
- You'll need a googlemap key for your domain. Get your own key for your domain view http://www.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html for more information.
A googlemap key is only valid for a specific domain. You'll need a specific google account to create one.
All is explained on the googlemap link indicated above.
- Set the file permissions on the marker.xml file to 777
- The googlemap script can handle non-registered users. They will only see the main map and won't be able to enter information. This is reserved for logged in users (detected automatically)
- usergroup permissions are available in the backend
- To change location just drag the map while holding the left mouse key or by using the zoom and key functions on the left
- First time loading of the map may take a few seconds longer because of Google API hosting



Special Xbox Live version
http://www.xboxlivenation.com/community/gamermap.php

Credits

This has taken quite some work and still will take a lot more. Please give credit where credit is due. You cannot remove any notice without prior written permission. Instructions are included in the pdf file.
Special credits to Google, Pyg for the javascript tips.


FAQ

The FAQ is included in the pdf file.

INSTALL



Feel free to support this mod and make a paypal donation to admin@stonyarc.com



(c) 2007 Stonyarc

[msudawgs64]

Originally Posted by Ronseal

msudawgs64, It's not all good news I'm afriad!!!!
Although my old pins show any new pins added/edited are not showing even after I run the cron job. So maybe it's time to try GeekDrew's '$pimage = parseToXML($pimage);' fix?

well that stinks.. so far I have had two members add to it and they are showing up but I will keep an eye on it.

[GeekDrew]

Originally Posted by Ronseal

Just got the following error with your fix Geekdrew, any ideas?



and line 39 was one of your additions: $xmlStr=str_replace("&",'&',$xmlStr);

Oops. I didn't take into consideration how the browser would render my post. See the above quote that I changed -- right now the code is linked to a text file, cause I'm not sure how to post it here and have it render properly.

[mdcdeve]

Hi, tried this when it was first released and i couldn't get it to work. Tried it just now and the same problem, everything seems ok but the map won't show, anyone know why or how to fix this?

[towermatt]

Originally Posted by Julrou

Hum, when i go to http://www.informatiquefacile.eu/forums/markers.xml

i got a blank page...
Did i miss something ?

I would make sure that file is added to your forums folder. It should be a simple file that shows the markers in code. A broken link will show in red.

edit--looks like its there to me, but no broken ones.

[n1troboy]

Great mod got mine up and running last night and had about 16 members add points. Now this morning all the points are gone? They are showing in the user points but not on the map - any ideas? Sorry if this has already been posted but none of my searches brought up any results

this is the error that occurs on the client browser

Line: 956
Char: 4
Error: 'documentElement' is null or not an object
Code: 0


Cheers

AM

http://www.archeli.com.au/cobra/vbgooglemapme.php

[Julrou]

Originally Posted by towermatt

I would make sure that file is added to your forums folder. It should be a simple file that shows the markers in code. A broken link will show in red.

edit--looks like its there to me, but no broken ones.

OK.

And have u got an other idea ?

[chriszep]

hello since i am to vb3.68 the product does not appear in my admin
i reuploaded the product , same problem and nobody has the permission to see the map

[n1troboy]

Great idea - just grabbed mine and found a parse error in the xml data - will continue to investigate - hopefully it will just come down to dud point data

cheers for the idea

Originally Posted by towermatt

All you have to do is browse out to http://www.yoursite.com/forums/markers.xml

It is a file that came with the download for this mod and it should show any errors for links in read. Edit that entry on your map and it may bring the markers back.

[n1troboy]

okay - that was it - dud map data

just hit your markers.xml and look for parse errors mine was this line

still trying to work out the error

looks like there needs to be some stricter input validation done on the map points

<marker mapid="27" title_map="Heliguychris`s flying site." lng="115.964384079" lat="-32.1490191355" userid="31186" username="heliguychris" text_map="Foothills Flyers site." type="green" pimage="http://www.archeli.com.au/cobra/image.php?u=31186&dateline=1189811145" />

[dougeetx]

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.8:

Invalid SQL:
SET NAMES 'utf8';

MySQL Error : Unknown system variable 'NAMES'
Error Number : 1193

Can anyone shed some light on this error?