Major Additions - VBGooglemap Hotspot Edition

This modification contains a security vulnerability, you are hereby advised to uninstall until further notice.

- vBulletin.org Staff



VBGooglemap Hotspot Edition 1.0.4
I'm proud to announce that the Hotspot Edition is currently available to you all !!!

This is the port of the VB 3.5.X version (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=114149)

Function
The vbgooglemap Hotspot Edition is a design from StonyArc (http://www.stonyarc.com). It allows you to create and maintain a whole range of elements like landmarks, places to visit or even people. The application is fully manageable from the control panels. Each specific category can have a specific colour code. The configuration is done by the administrator. He or she can edit/approve/add catogories name it, it's there.
Clicking on a marker will open a small balloon with some essential elements for that spot and an image in the second tab. For each marker on the map there is also a full details page including support for the vbulletin full editor (wysiwyg) so additional information and images can be added.

Use the menus to navigate through all the functions.

Vbgooglemap Hotspot Edition is ideal for handling landmarks, travel, events or even giving your users their own page.


Don't forget to hit install !!!!!!!




Detailed installation instructions and screenshots in the included pdf file.

Version Information
1.0.0.

• Initial Version

1.0.1

• Included fix for single quote insert error

1.0.2

• Integrated on mouse over support for the information balloon with admincp support for activation
• Compact display of main map (welcome in header)

1.0.3

• Fixed date issue to display the correct entered date in both new insert and edit of existing
• Fixed the frontend delete issue

1.0.4
Current version

• Minor update after changes from Google. IE alignment issue.

Current Features





NOTE:

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.

Support for this version is only in this thread and only for people that have clicked install.

To remove the copyright marker, please get in touch with me on admin@stonyarc.com. The email address cannot be used for support questions for this version.

If you have specific requests (eg custom versions) you may use the address to get in touch with me to discuss.


Planned Features
- To be defined

Volume warning

- high volume of markers may result in longer loading times

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 spotmarkers.xml file to 777
- usergroup permissions are available in the backend
- First time loading of the map may take a few seconds longer because of Google API hosting

Demonstration
http://www.stonyarc.com/forums/vbgooglemaphse.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 (vbgooglemaphse1.0.0.pdf)


FAQ

The FAQ is included in the pdf file.



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



(c) 2006 Stonyarc

[Finster]

Apparently this mod is no longer supported and the coder has not been on here in ages and doesn't return e-mails.

[PinkLiquorice]

Well surely someone else knows the answers and would be so kind as to help

[Betablocker]

Originally Posted by sw1

How do I set the spotmarkers to 777??? Help!

When you FTP into your vb dir using a ftp package then right click on spotmarkers.xml and set this to 777 (change file attributes or properties)

Hope this helps

[silence88]

dudes all is working fine 4 me. lets see how it works in the next days...

I only had to figure out why i couldt acces the vbgooglemap.php that was cuz all permmiiissions were set to no by default

[Alfa1]

This add-on works well on vb 3.7PL1

Does anyone have an idea how to:

- remove the following fields:

1. date
2. url for the location
3. text for details page

- change the word 'elements' for 'caf?s'.

[rainyleaves]

Originally Posted by Defkalion

This is a great mod, many thanks to the author.

I installed it successfully on my 3.6.4 version, but I have problems inserting markers with greek characters. I use Googlemaps for my job as well, and have made quite a few applications with it. The only thing that's needed for other languages with weird character (like Greek) to work, is to declare the encoding in the XML file. For example Greek is ISO-8859-7 . Problem is, everytime a user inserts a marker in the map, the XML file is automatically re-generated (I suppose), and the encoding value returns to ISO-8859-1.

Is there any way around this? Has anyone else had a similar characters encoding problem? I believe that the problem lies not only in changing this value in the markers XML file, but also in some way when the module is "inserting" a marker's info in the XML, it does so through ISO-8859-1.

If you using multibyte language.
You can try this.
You can try iso-8859-7 or utf-8...etc.

1. vbgooglemaphse.php

find :

$text_file = "<"."?"."xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"". "?"."><markers>\n";
$text_file = $text_file."<!-- (c) 2006 StonyArc -->\n";

Replace:

$text_file = "<"."?"."xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-7\"". "?"."><markers>\n";
$text_file = $text_file."<!-- (c) 2006 StonyArc -->\n";

Now save and upload in your forum folder.



2. spotmarkers.xml

This is very important.
Just open and save as for ISO-8859-7 in your computer.

Now upload in your forum folder.


3. Just create 'Add Elements'


4. And test your lang.


5. You need Verify spotmarkers.xml from your ftp account.

Just open spotmarkers.xml and find:
(You must open this file from your site.)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-7"?><markers>
<!-- (c) 2006 StonyArc -->

If You can see 'iso-8859-7' or utf-8 in this code.

Then you are success !!!
GOOD LUCK~

Sorry my bad English.
I hope this help you...

[Finster]

Too bad StonyArc does not respond to e-mails, I'd be willing to pay him to have some custom work done.