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This is something I originally made almost 5 years ago.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

[Boofo]

Shawn, is there a way to set the width of the map? On a widescreen monitor is starts to repeat itself.

[ShadowStalker]

Awesome mod. Unfortunately don't have the extension needed.

[Boofo]

What extension?

[digitalpoint]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Shawn, is there a way to set the width of the map? On a widescreen monitor is starts to repeat itself.

You could change the CSS width directive for #map... it's set to 100% by default, but you could set it to a specific pixel width if you wanted.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

You could change the CSS width directive for #map... it's set to 100% by default, but you could set it to a specific pixel width if you wanted.

Thank you, sir. I will play with it and see what I can figure out.

[sadaar]

My host gladly installed the extension... for a small fee... but after install I get the no map thing. No errors. Trued changing the code to

$user_location = geoip_record_by_name(IPADDRESS);

No luck.

vBulletin 4.1.0 PL2

Suggestions? I would hate to have paid that install fee for a mod I cannot get to work

[digitalpoint]

Did they install the extension, but not the database that goes with it maybe?

[sadaar]

How may I check?

[digitalpoint]

You could make a PHP script with the following:

PHP Code:

<?php
print_r(geoip_db_get_all_info());
?>

That will give you various info about the databases available...

[sadaar]

Output of requested command is:

Array ( [1] => Array ( [available] => [description] => GeoIP Country Edition [filename] => /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat ) [2] => Array ( [available] => [description] => GeoIP City Edition, Rev 1 [filename] => /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat ) [3] => Array ( [available] => [description] => GeoIP Region Edition, Rev 1 [filename] => /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoIPRegion.dat ) [4] => Array ( [available] => [description] => GeoIP ISP Edition [filename] => /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoIPISP.dat ) [5] => Array ( [available] => [description] => GeoIP Organization Edition [filename] => /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoIPOrg.dat ) [6] => Array ( [available] => [description] => GeoIP City Edition, Rev 0 [filename] => /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat ) [7] => Array ( [available] => [description] => GeoIP Region Edition, Rev 0 [filename] => /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoIPRegion.dat ) [8] => Array ( [available] => [description] => GeoIP Proxy Edition [filename] => /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoIPProxy.dat ) [9] => Array ( [available] => [description] => GeoIP ASNum Edition [filename] => /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoIPASNum.dat ) [10] => Array ( [available] => [description] => GeoIP Netspeed Edition [filename] => /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoIPNetSpeed.dat ) [11] => Array ( [available] => [description] => GeoIP Domain Name Edition [filename] => /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoIPDomain.dat ) [12] => Array ( [available] => [description] => GeoIP Country V6 Edition [filename] => /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoIPv6.dat ) )