Vbulletin World Map System

Vbulletin World Map Plotting System
Show Your Guest/Members From All Over The World !!!

Summary:

The core of this system I developed approximately 3 years ago but was unable to practically distribute it on vborg due to the fact the GEOIP City Database was a very expensive software product; and it is needed to map IP Addresses to Global Lat/Lon Coordinates.

With the recent availability of a "Lite" version of the City Database I have decided to build from the ground up a new hack that utilizes it to display 2 map structures.

1. Plots Your Current Members/Guest Online available on the Whos Online Page.
2. Plots Your Registered Members last known Coordinates on the Member List Page.
3. Coordinates are calculated from IP Addresses stored in your Forums Database.

Features:

• Automatic & Accurate plotting of your Guest & Members on the WorldMap.
• WorldMap Page to view Both Maps, added to your navbar.
• Enable WOL, Member Plotting Independently
• Control Panel Options
• Specify Plotting Image Type, Size, Color
• Specify Opaque, Alpha Transparency
• Support for Payed Full Version of City Database
• Updates on Scheduled Task Interval
• Map is shown small and expands on Mouseover, then contracts back.

Instructions:

1. Download Zip File
2. Read INSTALL.TXT
3. Run the crontask manually the first time, so it will generate your images.
4. Click Install if you like it

Updates:
3/14/2006 - Forgot to uncomment keep-alive code.
3/12/2006 12:54pm -
1. Added a new Realistic World map
2. Configuration Editor partially remade, allows easier selection of Maps.
3/8/2006 11:35pm - Added a worldmap.php Page, for viewing both maps.
3/8/2006 9:52am - Fixed the jpeg output problem.

Note:

The GEOIP Binary Database can be located here:

http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoi...iteCity.dat.gz

[ConqSoft]

..assuming you have an application installed on your PC that handles gzip... I know the latest WinZIP does.

It's faster to FTP the .gz file up to your server and extract it there though.

[DementedMindz]

yeah but thats only if you have ssh... which i doubt he does since he cant get this going.....

[ConqSoft]

Originally Posted by DementedMindz

yeah but thats only if you have ssh... which i doubt he does since he cant get this going.....

You're probably correct.

[DementedMindz]

its way easier thats how i do most of my work.... ReadOrDie you have winrar??? cause he may not be able to extract it or something... can you open the file up????

[overload7]

I'm sorry if this issue has already been addressed, I skimmed the whole thread and didn't see too much discussion on it:

If I replace the map image files with a map of my demographic region, and name them all the same, will this hack still work?

I really like this hack, but don't want the whole world. Just the New England region. If replacing the image is not an option, is there any other way to get this done? It would be a huge marketing step for my site, since we would be able to see areas of New England that we need to concentrate on advertising in.

Thanks

[ConqSoft]

No, it won't work. It would require modifications to work with different maps.

[ReadOrDie]

Can someone please post careful directions? I have winrar but I don't know what to do. How do I extract the file?

[DementedMindz]

as posted before its really not that hard lol open that thing up(the rar) and drag the file out to your desktop and then upload the file inside.....

[overload7]

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

No, it won't work. It would require modifications to work with different maps.

If anyone could make it possible, please let me know what compensation you would like. I do want to use this hack with a New England Map. States including: Connecticut, Rhode Island, Mass, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. PM me if you can make this possible. Thanks.

[ReadOrDie]

Ok now I only get one error:

World Map Plotter

Fatal error: error traversing database - perhaps it is corrupt? in /worldmap/geoip/geoip.inc on line 418

I "extracted" the .dat file, but there's a possibility I didn't do it right. If anyone would like to post the attachment or help me fix me error that'd be nice. Thanks.