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This is something I originally made almost 5 years ago.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

[x YNWA x]

Ok So I got the host to install this extension, the map thing appears now but it is a big white box and these errors are above it:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in [path]/global.php(29) : eval()'d code on line 60

Warning: geoip_record_by_name() [function.geoip-record-by-name]: Required database not available at /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat. in [path]/usermap.php on line 100

Warning: geoip_record_by_name() [function.geoip-record-by-name]: Required database not available at /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat. in [path]/usermap.php on line 100

Warning: geoip_record_by_name() [function.geoip-record-by-name]: Required database not available at /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat. in [path]/usermap.php on line 100

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/usermap.php on line 128

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/usermap.php on line 133

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/usermap.php on line 152

Warning: geoip_record_by_name() [function.geoip-record-by-name]: Required database not available at /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat. in [path]/usermap.php on line

Any ideas?

[digitalpoint]

Originally Posted by x YNWA x

Warning: geoip_record_by_name() [function.geoip-record-by-name]: Required database not available at /var/lib/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat. in [path]/usermap.php on line 100

Any ideas?

Did you by chance read the error message you posted?

[x YNWA x]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

Did you by chance read the error message you posted?

The hosting company said they had installed the database too, I even uploaded the database myself for them to move into the correct file. A day later they email me saying they put the DB in the wrong folder and it was working! So working fine now, I have two versions, One for when users registered and one which shows current online users.

[Boofo]

Excellent update, Shawn. No more errors. Thanks for the fix, sir.

[hassshasss]

Hi,
I did install the GeoIP extension is said to have installed in the VPS, but the map does not beep.
I wonder what could be the problem?
Link : http://www.turkiyemotosiklet.org/usermap.php

[Boofo]

Did you upload the files GeoIP dat files?

[hassshasss]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Did you upload the files GeoIP dat files?

yes I've installed the server.
Before you install the downloaded after giving an error that the error has been lost.

[digitalpoint]

Not sure to be honest... you have so many JavaScript errors on that page (unrelated to the map) that the browser probably just stops executing all JS (which is what the map uses to run). The good news, is it looks like the GeoIP extension is installed properly because if you look at the source of the page, it has the long/lat that it *wants* to plot.

[hassshasss]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

Not sure to be honest... you have so many JavaScript errors on that page (unrelated to the map) that the browser probably just stops executing all JS (which is what the map uses to run). The good news, is it looks like the GeoIP extension is installed properly because if you look at the source of the page, it has the long/lat that it *wants* to plot.

I did not see this error page, javascript http://www.turkiyemotosiklet.org/usermap.php page.
Can not you tell me wonder if the existing errors?

[sadaar]

I have come a long way in my education and have revisited this mod. I was able to get it working by adding geoip.custom_directory = /var/lib/GeoIP/ to my php.ini.

One question if I may.. I would like this turned off for certain usergroups. It doesn't need to be an option for them, I would just need to know what code to add to stop the display of certain usergroups. Is that a possibility?

Thanks for the GREAT mod