Major Additions - VBGooglemap Hotspot Edition

This modification contains a security vulnerability, you are hereby advised to uninstall until further notice.

- vBulletin.org Staff



VBGooglemap Hotspot Edition 1.0.4
I'm proud to announce that the Hotspot Edition is currently available to you all !!!

This is the port of the VB 3.5.X version (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=114149)

Function
The vbgooglemap Hotspot Edition is a design from StonyArc (http://www.stonyarc.com). It allows you to create and maintain a whole range of elements like landmarks, places to visit or even people. The application is fully manageable from the control panels. Each specific category can have a specific colour code. The configuration is done by the administrator. He or she can edit/approve/add catogories name it, it's there.
Clicking on a marker will open a small balloon with some essential elements for that spot and an image in the second tab. For each marker on the map there is also a full details page including support for the vbulletin full editor (wysiwyg) so additional information and images can be added.

Use the menus to navigate through all the functions.

Vbgooglemap Hotspot Edition is ideal for handling landmarks, travel, events or even giving your users their own page.


Don't forget to hit install !!!!!!!




Detailed installation instructions and screenshots in the included pdf file.

Version Information
1.0.0.

• Initial Version

1.0.1

• Included fix for single quote insert error

1.0.2

• Integrated on mouse over support for the information balloon with admincp support for activation
• Compact display of main map (welcome in header)

1.0.3

• Fixed date issue to display the correct entered date in both new insert and edit of existing
• Fixed the frontend delete issue

1.0.4
Current version

• Minor update after changes from Google. IE alignment issue.

Current Features





NOTE:

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.

Support for this version is only in this thread and only for people that have clicked install.

To remove the copyright marker, please get in touch with me on admin@stonyarc.com. The email address cannot be used for support questions for this version.

If you have specific requests (eg custom versions) you may use the address to get in touch with me to discuss.


Planned Features
- To be defined

Volume warning

- high volume of markers may result in longer loading times

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 spotmarkers.xml file to 777
- usergroup permissions are available in the backend
- First time loading of the map may take a few seconds longer because of Google API hosting

Demonstration
http://www.stonyarc.com/forums/vbgooglemaphse.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 (vbgooglemaphse1.0.0.pdf)


FAQ

The FAQ is included in the pdf file.



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



(c) 2006 Stonyarc

[sNator]

This hack don't work together with vbAdvanced for me.
I have created a custom page in vba to display a right column on the pages I select, but when I add the necesary code in vbgooglemaphse.php

PHP Code:

define('VBA_PORTAL', true);
define('VBA_PAGE', 'vbforum'); 


then the map don't show up and I get this error in IE
Line : 980
Char: 3
Error: GMap is undefined
Code: 0

No error is displayed in FF except the dashboard table don't show up right.

I can list Elements and other pages but not the map.

[Amiga Harrison]

I'm running vB 3.6.4 and hadn't noticed there was a 3.6 version of Hotspot edition when I installed the 3.5 version this week.

It works perfectly but I want to know what are the actual differences between the 3.5 and 3.6 version of this 1.0.4 release? Especially considering the 3.5 version I currently have installed works perfect with vB 3.6.4

[Defkalion]

This is a great mod, many thanks to the author.

I installed it successfully on my 3.6.4 version, but I have problems inserting markers with greek characters. I use Googlemaps for my job as well, and have made quite a few applications with it. The only thing that's needed for other languages with weird character (like Greek) to work, is to declare the encoding in the XML file. For example Greek is ISO-8859-7 . Problem is, everytime a user inserts a marker in the map, the XML file is automatically re-generated (I suppose), and the encoding value returns to ISO-8859-1.

Is there any way around this? Has anyone else had a similar characters encoding problem? I believe that the problem lies not only in changing this value in the markers XML file, but also in some way when the module is "inserting" a marker's info in the XML, it does so through ISO-8859-1.

Can anyone elaborate on this?

Again, thanks for a great mod.

[Finster]

Stoney.

I am not really versed on this, so I was wondering if you ever do installs of this mod for people on their vbulletins?

I am running 3.6.4. I was wondering if this threads mod is the same one as I see here

Anyway, I was wondering if you ever install this mod for users who would make a paypal donation of whatever you want to call it.

Thanks!

[coderphp]

installed thanx

[Amiga Harrison]

Finster, it's very easy to install this mod if you follow the clear instructions included.

And personally I don't think it is the same mod as the one you are linking too. Although obviously both use the Google Maps API.

[Finster]

Hello Amiga,

That's easy for you to say! lol Most people here were breastfed on PHP formula or something. I can barely find my way around adding a new menu link in the navbar after staring at vbulletins forum instructions for hours!

[bada_bing]

This hack is kinda played out and very outdated in my opinion. Its lacking lots of features like the zip code definition and the ability to move the hotspots to either side top or bottom, nothing had been done to this hack in months maybe over a year.

[Finster]

Ok, so what is better then?

I actually want to be able to control what members might post as a hot spot or pin or whatever you want to call it.

So lets say a particular business in the world caters to a particular type of traveler on my board. I approach the particular business, and for a fee, they pay for us to put a destination pin on the Google map. If any user can do the same thing, they can override our ability to charge a fee for the service we offer to the particular business to be listed on the map.

[OlivierJ]

Hello all !

Great mod, thank you very much ! For my first mod installed, that's great... but I have a problem to integrate it in vbadvanced portal. Just the same problem below :

Originally Posted by sNator

This hack don't work together with vbAdvanced for me.
I have created a custom page in vba to display a right column on the pages I select, but when I add the necesary code in vbgooglemaphse.php

PHP Code:

define('VBA_PORTAL', true);
define('VBA_PAGE', 'vbforum'); 


then the map don't show up and I get this error in IE
Line : 980
Char: 3
Error: GMap is undefined
Code: 0

No error is displayed in FF except the dashboard table don't show up right.

I can list Elements and other pages but not the map.

I don't see where is the solution... a wrong path due to the include in a vbadvanced page ? But all is fonctionnal (listing, data, pictures...) except the map.

Thank you very much if you can help me.

Olivier