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

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by bitg

D'Oh! I forgot to import the plugin.

Yes that would probably cause it

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by DementedMindz

ok question im still have issues with it not keeping All Members marks on /worldmap.php it seems like when the cron runs it removes the marks would that cause it?

The cron should be whats writing the data onto the map. No one else is having this issue, quite odd..

[DementedMindz]

yeah im not sure but i have posted a few times in the forum so it should have logged me at least and it hasent logged me at all... it was there but after so long it goes away... i even triple checked the install and its flawless.... not to sure what could be causeing the problem.... when they are online it shows it perfect just if they post on the forum or anything else it will log it then erase it later....

[Trigunflame]

Thats very odd, I will try to check it out later today.

[heynurse]

I installed it, it worked great, but was killing my server load when it updated every 15 min, so I had to remove it. We had about 800 users on when I installed and tested it.

Still a great hack, thanks for sharing it! I copied the images of the maps when I had it installed, pretty cool!

[ConqSoft]

You can turn off the Who's Online version; and set the task to just run once a day in your low-peak time.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by heynurse

I installed it, it worked great, but was killing my server load when it updated every 15 min, so I had to remove it. We had about 800 users on when I installed and tested it.

Still a great hack, thanks for sharing it! I copied the images of the maps when I had it installed, pretty cool!

Ya, it could be worse though , I optimized both of the queries it uses to get as few results as possible; so hopefully it shouldnt affect it to0 bad.

[Trigunflame]

Update:

3/14/2006 - Forgot to uncomment keep-alive code.

[heynurse]

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

You can turn off the Who's Online version; and set the task to just run once a day in your low-peak time.

true. I might try that at a latter time. Thanks for the tip.

[DementedMindz]

Originally Posted by Trigunflame

Update:

3/14/2006 - Forgot to uncomment keep-alive code.

i didnt update this yet cause it finally started to keep track where is the keep alive at or do i need to update everything?