Miscellaneous Hacks - Digital Point User Map

About
This is a system for geo-locating your currently online users and plotting them on a world Google Map. You can click any of the pins for a link to pull up the user's location in Google Earth.

This is something I originally made almost 5 years ago. Now that I rewrote it for vBulletin 4, I wrapped it up as a product package and released it for the world to use.

Installation

• Put the usermap.php file in your forum folder.
• Install the product-digitalpoint_usermap.xml product under AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product

Notes

• Important! - this uses the free GeoIP PHP extension, so you must have it installed on your server in order for it to work.
• Uses datastore cache so it does not repeat GeoIP queries unnecessarily.
• Upgraded to Google Maps API v3.

You can see a live version in action here:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/usermap.php

[joeldaviddc]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

Well, depending on the operating system you are running for your server, there probably is a pre-packaged RPM installer for it.

I just compiled mine from source...

Install the libraries by downloading and compiling as per the instructions here:
http://www.maxmind.com/app/c

Then download and compile/install the PHP module for it:
http://pecl.php.net/package/geoip

For my installation, the GeoCity .dat files go into /usr/local/share/GeoIP/ (I think that's the default... don't think I would have changed the path for them).

You can download the .dat files from:
http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/...y/GeoIP.dat.gz
http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/...iteCity.dat.gz

i have donwloaded the geolite city...

Originally Posted by docvader

Boko, that GeoLiteCity.dat file needs to be in usr/local/share/ directory, and it needs to be renamed to GeoIPCity.dat.

i have renamed it...

Originally Posted by joeldaviddc

instaled http://pecl.php.net/package/geoip

instaled http://www.maxmind.com/app/c

geoip on phpinfo.


no, errors en error.log... but no map in screen,

firebug message:

syntax error
[Break on this error] map.setCenter(new google.maps.LatLng(, ));\n

usermap.php (line 353)


firebug details:

PHP Code:

 case "india":
345 map.setCenter(new google.maps.LatLng(22.350076, 80.859375));
346 map.setZoom(4);
347 break;
348 case "oceania":
349 map.setCenter(new google.maps.LatLng(-23.805450, 144.140625));
350 map.setZoom(3);
351 break;
352 case "me":
353 map.setCenter(new google.maps.LatLng(, ));
354 map.setZoom(9);
355 break;
356 default:
357 map.setCenter(new google.maps.LatLng(24, -10));
358 map.setZoom(2);
359 break; 


then working...

solved...

[junaid]

My website is hosted shared host work fine
http://www.maldiviandigital.com/usermap.php

If u want ant info send PM

Hi,
my provider stated I do have "mod_geoip" module, not GeoIP PHP extension (.
Is there any way to get the map working ?
(I assume - NO- but still hope ...)

txs
KH

[tpearl5]

I'm seeing that all guests are showing as spiders. Any ideas?

[Boofo]

I just installed this and have downloaded the files and uploaded them to there server. I am getting the following errors now and no map:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/usermap.php on line 128
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/usermap.php on line 133
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/usermap.php on line 152

Any ideas what is happening?

[Boofo]

Figured it out. Apparently, I was not logged in when the errors were shown. Do I need to turn it off for guests then? Apparently, if there are no users and only guests on the site, is when the error occurs.

[digitalpoint]

It should be fine if guests can/can't view as long as at least you have a user online.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

It should be fine if guests can/can't view as long as at least you have a user online.

I have the links only show to members now. Since I am still working on the site, there are times I come in as a guest and if there are no spiders or registered users online at the time, I get the error. There are quite a few smaller sites that run into that every now and then.

[reefland]

Hey digitalpoint,

I just tried to get this rolling on my new server today and am not having any luck.

GeoIP is installed and can be seen here (http://www.nationofblue.com/info.php)
Product is imported and USERMAP template is installed.
The page loads but there is no Google Map. No errors are displayed anywhere.
Tried to change $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] to IPADDRESS at the bottom of usermap.php as you mentioned previously with no different results.

http://www.nationofblue.com/usermap.php

Any thoughts?

[reefland]

Hey digitalpoint, please ignore my previous post. The problem was that the usermap.css was not getting added to my styles directory in vbulletin_css. I am not sure why but manually creating it solved my problem.