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

[cherylferraro]

Thank you so much for creating this!!!

I used ConqSoft's class_wmp.php change https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=177 which worked well too.

It's my favorite new toy...

[DementedMindz]

question now will this just change it for All Members or both?

[ConqSoft]

All Members... The Who's Online map goes by the IP addresses of all members/guests that are currently online, so this doesn't have any affect on that.

[DementedMindz]

ok thanks for the code and the quick response

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by srpompon

I put all the files, and show the error...




Thanks,

Ivan

From that FTP list command.. you were missing 3 files in the worldmap/geoip directory.

[Trigunflame]

Vote Vbulletin World Map System OR Plugin Accelerator for HOTM

[Quarterbore]

Back to the server load issue mentioned a few pages back...

I think it would pay to redo the hack so that it only updates the MEMEBER map once a day (at an off time) and then have it do the calculations for the WHO IS ONLINE every 15-minutes... The server load has to come from plotting thousands of members (MEMBER MAP) as opposed to the dozens to hundreds (WHO'S ONLINE) so splitting the two tasks would save a lot of server load...

I am swamped with work but if nobody else beats me to it I will see about splitting the tasks so that seperate CRON jobs can make it run.

[drex]

From one of my users:

Cool new feature!

I'm not sure what the purpose is for the shrinking/expanding maps. I think having the larges one only is fine unless we can actually zoom in on a region.

Any way to list the members when we mouse over a spot? I guess this only makes sense if we can zoom in to an individual marker.

Sigh-- there always has to be one who wants more! LOL, and from a non-donating user to boot!

[DementedMindz]

i was just wondering why is the title of the page like this???

<title>$vboptions[bbtitle] - View All Thread Bans</title>

its on the worldmap.php page

[Pvtiste]

Oh !! Very very good work guy Thanks a lot for your sharing

How to display on the map who is who ? Is it possible ?

Thx !