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

[snipeyhead]

I had no expectation of the author helping. People were posting fixes, so I wanted to make it clear that the previous fixes were not helpful to my particular install, in case other people were having the same problem. And then when I found my own solution, I posted it - so people could benefit. Which is the whole point of having a forum. So whatever.

[PoetJA-1975]

Oh Pa! Get over yourself.
Obviously you'd expect a modification that is checked as supported to actually be supported - in this case it isn't so - I was simply stating that fact - So take that little attitude and 5 posts of yours and shove off somewhere.

Unsubscribed. A total waste of time anyway.

Jacquii.

[snipeyhead]

LOL nice attitude.

[K4GAP]

Does anyone know of anything similar to this that works? And, would work on 3.7?

[MonkYZ]

Thx ZerHour for the fix. Now inside the VBGooglemap page i get less errors (before i got like 29 errors, now only 2). Unfortunatelly, still no pins on the map (and i made markers.xml from zero).

The errors look like this (as you can notice there is still a "&" character which i suppose it's the culprit):

Line:921
Char:26
Code:0
Error:Object expected
URL:http://www.consolegames.ro/forum/vbgooglemapme.php?lat=44.4327992256&lng=26.0314178467&zoom=6

Line:1209
Char:3
Code:0
Error:Invalid pointer

URL:http://www.consolegames.ro/forum/vbgooglemapme.php?lat=44.4327992256&lng=26.0314178467&zoom=6

Can you please help me fix this ? Thank you in advance !

Originally Posted by ZeroHour

Right I have my first fix. I will be editing this post with future changes so you can refer back to it and bookmark it by clicking the post number to the right.

Fix for no markers shown:

Edit:

/includes/functions_vbgooglemapme.php:

Goto line 49 which should start:

PHP Code:

$text_file .= "<marker mapid=\" 


Replace that line with:

PHP Code:

$text_file .= "<marker mapid=\"". htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["mapid"])."\"  title_map=\"".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["title_map"])."\" lng=\"".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["lng"])."\" lat=\"".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["lat"])."\" userid=\"".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["userid"])."\" username=\"".preg_replace("/\n|\r\n|\r/", "",nl2br(addslashes(htmlspecialchars(trim($get_xml_marker["username"])))))."\" text_map=\"".preg_replace("/\n|\r\n|\r/", "", nl2br(addslashes(htmlspecialchars(trim($get_xml_marker["text_map"])))))."\" type=\"".htmlspecialchars($gettype['googlemapmetype'])."\" pimage=\"".htmlspecialchars($pimage)."\" />\n"; 


/includes/cron/vbgooglemapme_cron.php:

Goto line 58 which should start:

PHP Code:

$text_file .= "<marker mapid=\" 


Replace that line with:

PHP Code:

$text_file .= "<marker mapid=\"".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["mapid"])."\"  title_map=\"".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["title_map"])."\" lng=\"".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["lng"])."\" lat=\"".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["lat"])."\" userid=\"".htmlspecialchars($get_xml_marker["userid"])."\" username=\"".preg_replace("/\n|\r\n|\r/", "",nl2br(addslashes(htmlspecialchars(trim($get_xml_marker["username"])))))."\" text_map=\"".preg_replace("/\n|\r\n|\r/", "", nl2br(addslashes(htmlspecialchars(trim($get_xml_marker["text_map"])))))."\" type=\"".htmlspecialchars($gettype['googlemapmetype'])."\" pimage=\"".htmlspecialchars($pimage)."\" />\n"; 


Run the scheduled task and your markers should return.
Basically I have modified the code to replace things like "&" with the xml safe "&" so no matter what anyone enters for the fields the xml should still be safe.

More tweaks to come including integration of the display groups being marker colour.

[Cobra-J82]

I have vb 3.7.3
After doing what ZeroHour Said
I'm still not able to view the pins
This is my Error Details:

Webpage Script Errors

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.2)
Timestamp: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:23:19 UTC

0.
Message: Invalid argument.
Line: 1285
Char: 3
Code: 0
URI: http://www.***********.com/vbgooglemapme.php

Would realy appreciate it if some one have an idea to fix this
Knowing that some guys with 3.7.3 VB have no problem at all.

[Cobra-J82]

Okay Guys
I think I know a Good solution for times Being
After u Do wat ZeroHour said regarding replacing the Code in the php files

Disable:
Enable or disable the small map control (disable for better performance)

And try It
If it didnt work
Disable:
Enable the mouseover support on the markers?

For me it worked Fine When I only Disabled:
Enable or disable the small map control (disable for better performance)

Cheers

[MonkYZ]

Thx Cobra-J82. That solved my problem too

[lpetrich]

ZeroHour's fix worked for me also. Thanx, ZeroHour, for going through all the trouble to come up with it.

And I've contributed some other fixes and additions in the 3.6 thread: VBGooglemap Member Edition

They are:

* In edit mode, the marker is always the vbGoogleMap red marker, instead of Google Maps's default marker.

* Mousewheel zooming is enabled.

* Terrain display is enabled.

* When mousing over does not make a vbGoogleMap info balloon, it instead makes a HTML-element title that contains the username. This fix thus produces the best of both worlds: a nondisruptive quick look, and a detailed info balloon with more info.

I haven't made terrain display an option for the default display, because I'd have to do a lot of tracking down of where it is set and handled and so forth.

I have also explored the feasibility of making markers draggable in edit mode. It is easy to set up a draggable marker; when you create it, include draggable:true in its marker options. But you also have to set up some event listeners for the marker's motions, and that's a bit trickier and more difficult to debug.

BTW, the site I'm a sysadmin of is at vBulletin 3.7.0 and I've had no troubles that can reasonably be attributed to vBulletin being at this version.

[reactortrip]

Anyone have any problems with this when someone has injected something into the api that causes it to link to a stupid anti virus site when you try to do anything with this hack? Where is the api key located in the database?