VBGooglemap Member Edition

I'm proud to announce that the new version is currently available to you all !!!


You can now nominate hacks yourself for hacks of the month. There is a link on the right of hacks on top of the files.



Function
This will display the members of the Bulletin Board based on their lattitude and longitude coordinates on a googlemap.

Don't forget to hit install !!!!!!!
Please read the guide before asking for support !!!!!!!

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

INSTALL

HOTSPOT EDITION AVAILABLE ON : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=114149
Detailed installation instructions and screenshots in the included pdf file.

Current Features



NOTE:
VBGooglemap 3.0.0 contains the vulnerability fix. Please upgrade immediately. Version 3.0.0. also contains all features from 2.5.X

As always you use modifications at your own risk.

VBGooglemap Member Edition 2.5.1 brings you a lot of new features. It?s vital that you uninstall any previous version before upgrading/installing version 2.5.1.

Upgrading from version 2.5.0 is easier. Instruction are available in the guide.

As the uninstall function will not remove your googlemap data in the database but only the templates and files you can safely remove an older version. As a precaution you should always take a backup. This should be done on each major change you make to your bulletin board.

IF YOU ARE RUNNING VERSION 1.0.3, 2.0.X AND YOU CHANGED TEXT DIRECTLY IN THE TEMPLATES YOU NEED TO SAVE YOUR CHANGES AS VERSION 2.5.0 REQUIRES YOU TO UINSTALL PREVIOUS VERSIONS.

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.

Changes in this version

SEE FIRST POST FOR FULL ROADMAP AND HISTORY

Planned Features
- TBD

Volume warning

high volume of users may slow down the load. Currently a load counter is included.

Languages

Thanks to Wachtmeister there is a German translation available to you all. Feel free to use it.

The translation will be updated on each new version.

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 marker.xml file to 777
- The googlemap script can handle non-registered users. They will only see the main map and won't be able to enter information. This is reserved for logged in users (detected automatically)
- usergroup permissions are available in the backend
- To change location just drag the map while holding the left mouse key or by using the zoom and key functions on the left
- First time loading of the map may take a few seconds longer because of Google API hosting


Special Xbox Live version
http://www.xboxlivenation.com/community/gamermap.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 (vbgooglemap2.5.0_guide.pdf)
Special credits to Google, Pyg for the javascript tips.


FAQ

The FAQ is included in the pdf file.

INSTALL



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(c) 2007 Stonyarc

[stonyarc]

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

hmm....problem:

the location markers are not appearing.

I successfully enter my location (and tested with other ids as well)....but no marker actually appears, which..well...defeats most of the purpose. heh.

everything else seems to be working fine.

Any ideas?
also, any word on a fully phrased version?

The version on http://www.xboxusersgroup.com/forums/VBGooglemap.php IS fully phrased :smoke:

For the markers you probably have a users with some bad characters in his text (you could check the googlemap table for that)

I'll release a version update later on today.

[StarBuG]

Three remaining questions.

The first his how do I change the Text color of the "map | Satelite | Hypbride" Buttons

The second is, I figured out of to set the map to satelite by default but I would like to have hybride by default.

The first two are the most important.

Now the third: Would it be possible to allow longer text for the markers but define a number of chars when there will be a < br /> entered automaticly?

Thank you for this realy great hack

[reteep]

Thanks, the update ran through fine, however, IE is still problematic ( http://www.musiker-board.de/vb/VBGooglemap.php ), runs fine on firefox though.

Special chars are e.g.: ?, ?, ?, ?, `, ?, '

[stonyarc]

Just to let you know that the Googlemap is now on version 1.0.2.

- Performance
- Full phrases support
- The special character list is now bigger to avoid the javascript error
- The special chararcter check is done on first insert and no longer when creating the googlemap xml (boost)

Download the latest version on vbulletin.org

UPGRADE to the Googlemap version 1.0.2:

1. Upload VBGooglemap.php to the forum root (overwrite ok)
2. add product-VBGooglemap.xml(Plugin System / Manage Products / Add Import product) and SET OVERWRITE TO YES 3. Enjoy

Hope you like it.

Development on 1.0.3 has started with event and hotspots support.


To change the text colour in the balloon

		
if ( (type=="yellow") || (type=="red") ){
title = "<a href='/'>"+ title +"</a>";
}
var content = "<div align=\"center\"><strong>"+title +"</strong></div>" + "<hr width=\"100\"/><div align=\"left\" style=\"width: 20em\">" + text +"</div>";

and change this to

		
if ( (type=="yellow") || (type=="red") ){
title = "<a href='/'><font color='#000000'>"+ title +"</font></a>";
}
var content = "<div align=\"center\"><strong><font color='#000000'>"+title +"</font></strong></div>" + "<hr width=\"100\"/><div align=\"left\" style=\"width: 20em\"><font color='#000000'>" + text +"</font></div>";

You can change the #000000 to anything you like

[stonyarc]

Originally Posted by stormblast

Thanks, the update ran through fine, however, IE is still problematic ( http://www.musiker-board.de/vb/VBGooglemap.php ), runs fine on firefox though.

Special chars are e.g.: ?, ?, ?, ?, `, ?, '

Well you because of the fact that the parsing is now done on insert / update please have your users click "your entry" and update your information and that should be fixed.

[StarBuG]

stonyarc any solution for my questions?

[stonyarc]

Originally Posted by StarBuG

stonyarc any solution for my questions?

Checking now

/edit

To change the large map to default on Hybrid

Open the XML file product-VBGooglemap.xml

look for

map = new GMap(document.getElementById("map"));
map.addControl(new GLargeMapControl());
map.addControl(new GMapTypeControl());

Add the following line below it

map.setMapType( _HYBRID_TYPE );

Save the XML and reload it
add product-VBGooglemap.xml(Plugin System / Manage Products / Add Import product) and SET OVERWRITE TO YES

The colours of the buttons is set by google I'm checking if I can force this to change.

[StarBuG]

Thank you.

In the original Googlemap API the font of these buttons is black like you can see here: http://local.google.com/

However in my forum map they are white so there is something changing the font.
http://www.hiphop-battles.com/forum/VBGooglemap.php

I realy love this hack!!

[stonyarc]

Originally Posted by StarBuG

Thank you.

In the original Googlemap API the font of these buttons is black like you can see here: http://local.google.com/

However in my forum map they are white so there is something changing the font.
http://www.hiphop-battles.com/forum/VBGooglemap.php

I realy love this hack!!

In fact it's easy to fix

Just add

Open the XML file product-VBGooglemap.xml. It's in there 3 times

<div id="map" style="width: 100%; height: 480px; padding:-5px;"   class="r_box"></div>

and replace it with

<div id="map" style="width: 100%; height: 480px; padding:-5px;"   class="r_box" style="color=#ff0000"></div>

Change the colour #ff0000 to what you want. You can also add the class to your css and fix it in there.

Save the XML and reload it
add product-VBGooglemap.xml (Plugin System / Manage Products / Add Import product) and SET OVERWRITE TO YES

[StarBuG]

thx

actualy there is one instance:

<div id="map" style="width: 100%; height: 480px; padding:-5px;" class="r_box"></div>

which needs to be replaced by:

<div id="map" style="width: 100%; height: 480px; padding:-5px; color:#000000;" class="r_box"></div>

and 2 instances

<div id="map" style="width: 600; height: 300px; padding:-5px;" class="r_box"></div>

which need to be replaced by

<div id="map" style="width: 600; height: 300px; padding:-5px; color:#000000;" class="r_box"></div>

thank you for the help

Your style="color=#ff0000" did not work (at least not for me )
see fixed version above


Is it possible to expand the text input to lets say 100 chars and automaticly insert a break after about 50 chars (end of the word) or for long words (eg spam inserts with more then 50 chars) a br inside the long word ??