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

[DementedMindz]

ok question on my All Members map its not showing nothing but on my Members/Guest Online map it displays it correctly what do you think would cause it from not showing on the first map?

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by q8-star

I've got a question and a suggestion :

• Did you use phrases for this hack ? I was trying to find phrases using phrases search but didn't find any .If you didn't I hope you do with the next release ,this make life a bit more easy
• Also since the search engines spiders could be a large factor ,keeping a track of them will be unrealistic indication about the forum guests .maybe you can add an option to exclude them .

Other than that I can say nothing but thanks again for that hack .

1. There are several phrases used, somewhere around 10 I believe. So look harder,

2. Not likely unless more people request it..

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by DementedMindz

ok question on my All Members map its not showing nothing but on my Members/Guest Online map it displays it correctly what do you think would cause it from not showing on the first map?

They both should show up regardless if there is any data on them or not.. you sure both files are present in the maps directory?

[DementedMindz]

sorry if i didnt word it right both map images are showing up but on All Members map its not logging the members location on it.... it will for online users on the Members/Guest Online but it dont display the mark for All Members... i see the red crosshair on Members/Guest Online but as for All Members it hasent logged one yet... any thoughts on why and sorry i didnt give more info in first post...

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by DementedMindz

sorry if i didnt word it right both map images are showing up but on All Members map its not logging the members location on it.... it will for online users on the Members/Guest Online but it dont display the mark for All Members... i see the red crosshair on Members/Guest Online but as for All Members it hasent logged one yet... any thoughts on why and sorry i didnt give more info in first post...

No idea, no one else has reported this issue. You may not have any post on your forum?

[ConqSoft]

Do you have this option turned on?

Log IP Addresses
For security reasons, you may wish to display the IP address of the person posting a message.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

Do you have this option turned on?

Good idea

[hotrod1]

Awesome, thanks!

[DementedMindz]

i have it set to Display, but require administrator or moderator is that ok? im going to make another post in the forum also see if that works .... thanks for quick response ill let you know thanks

[DementedMindz]

nope still nothing it still only shows them on Members/Guest Online but not on the other map