New Posting Features - Phoogle! An interactive Google Maps mapping system.

Keywords: Phoogle, Google, Maps, BBCode

Description:
Allows for the insertion of interactive Google Maps within posts via a new BBCode. Supports point labeling as well as multiple points per map.

Details:
I became increasingly annoyed after seeing more and more links to maps being butchered when posted on forums. I had remembered seeing the nifty Phoogle Maps and figured, "why not?"

A few headaches later.. here we are.

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Usage:
[map]value[/map]
[map=Option]value[/map]

Example:
[map]1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500[/map]
[map=The White House]1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500[/map]

Multiple Locations Example:
[map]1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500;E Capitol St NE & 1st St NE, Washington, DC 20001[/map]
[map=The White House;Capitol Building]1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500;E Capitol St NE & 1st St NE, Washington, DC 20001[/map]

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Installation:

1. Download and import product-phoogle2.0Beta1.xml via the Product Manager.
2. If you do not already have one, obtain a free Google Maps API key.
3. Configure Phoogle! via the AdminCP (vBulletin Options > Phoogle Settings).
4. ???
5. Profit!

Notes:
When adding/editing a map via AJAX Quick Reply or Quick Edit, you must refresh the page to see changes.

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Comments:
As with all my hacks, this modification is provided free of charge. However, if you find this product useful and have money burning a hole in your pocket, feel free to make a small donation, I won't mind.. really.

Version History:

• 1.0.0 - Initial release, here's to hoping..
• 1.0.1 - Added check for post preview, [map] code will NOT be parsed when previewing (because it can't).
• 1.1.0
  • Eliminated need for functions_phoogle.php
  • Modified way [map] tags are parsed
  • Moved previously static html to templates
  • Changed way multiple locations per posts is defined (separated by ;)
  • Added check for cURL() if not, uses file_get_contents()
• 2.0 Beta 1
  • Proper error handling. Will now verify address (and make reccomended changes) before submitting.
  • Javascript will not be loaded on pages that do not have maps (woops!)
  • Few internal tweaks to (hopefully) speed things up.
• 2.0 Beta 2 - Plays nice with the [noparse][/noparse] tags. (thanks Tralala)

* Please note that this modification was developed on a forum with a userbase of 1 (myself). I've tested it for basic functionality but I cannot guarantee functionality or behavior on your forum. So, please -- make backups before installing this product!

[joerns]

Is it possible to set the Hybrid[ view as the default view? At the moment it's the map view, and sometimes it does not show much data, especailly in far-flung places.

[Leo Brazil]

The idea of this mod is great.
Did someone here improve it to work directly with lat/long ? Or just type de zip code or other reference ? A great thing for me would be just get the maps posted by just pasting the http link created by google maps

Google API now gaves me support for my country but as this mod gets validation from yahoo maps, nothing works for me. Is there a way to deasable this yahoo validation ?

Tks.

[buro9]

Interested in an improvement to this... I allow my users to upload *.kml and *.kmz files and basically want a map inserted for each attachment that is of those types, with the source of the map being the attachment Url.

An embedded auto-preview of Google Earth if you like.

[joerns]

Hi - great hack! It worked fine until a few days ago. Maps are not displayed anymore. Any ideas how to start troubleshooting?

[SuperNissans]

I cannot get this to work for anything.....

using defauly settings, entered google API key as supplied by Google...

tried different addresses and still no luck.

Keep getting invalid address no matter what I use.

Ideas?

[dennisuello]

Originally Posted by SuperNissans

I cannot get this to work for anything.....

using defauly settings, entered google API key as supplied by Google...


tried different addresses and still no luck.

Keep getting invalid address no matter what I use.

Ideas?

Same here, when I use example code, I get invalid address.
[map]1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500[/map]
1. Invalid address: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500

[Digital Jedi]

Google apparently made some changes to the Maps API services.

Magnus, if you do get a change to work on this again, could I recommend that you find a way to circumvent the "invalid address" message that keeps you from posting? I have some RSS feeds that actually use the [map] tags, and the feed is interrupted by the invalid message, and can't be retrieved.

[Cyburbia]

I can't uninstall this. Here's the error message I get:

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.0:

Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE `post` DROP `phoogle_html`;

MySQL Error : Can't DROP 'phoogle_html'; check that column/key exists
Error Number : 1091
Request Date : Tuesday, May 13th 2008 @ 09:34:45 PM
Error Date : Tuesday, May 13th 2008 @ 09:36:10 PM

I re-install with an overwrite, and try uninstalling again ... nope. Same error.

Tried the query "ALTER TABLE `post` ADD `phoogle_html` mediumtext", and phpMyAdmin took about 300 seconds to execute. Even then, when I try to uninstall, the vBulletin control panel just hangs after Confirm Deletion: Phoogle at forums/admincp/plugin.php?do=productkill without deleting the plugin.

So, how can I delete the thing manually?

[ThePiston]

damn, this mod is dead now? if i can get past the "invalid address" error, all i see is a blank area where the map should be:
http://googlemapsforum.com/showthread.php?t=5

firebug says there's a syntax error in showthread.php on lines 2153 and 2180:
2153:

{
2151 var map5 = new GMap(document.getElementById("map5"));
2152 map5.centerAndZoom(new GPoint(, ), 6);
2153 }

2180:

{
2178 var map114 = new GMap(document.getElementById("map114"));
2179 map114.centerAndZoom(new GPoint(, ), 6);
2180 }

[madkeen]

Would like to get this on my site.

Anyone know if a work around for what Google has done will be able to be done?