VBGooglemap Hotspot Edition

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

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

[stonyarc]

Originally Posted by limey

Do you have to know the lattitude and longitude of everything you want to add?

not really,

You can click it on a city, landmark nearby the event or location or whatever.

You are free in that regard. Just click the small map when entering the data it will center on that location.


All,

Don't forget you can create your own extra categories in the admincp.
I preloaded 18 colours so you can go all the way.

[limey]

First of all I think this will be great.

Second why can't I add this to my database:
Your full text could not be added into the database because one or more fields blank were left blank. Please make sure you have enter all required information.
Return to previous page

Why should a location require a date? Does the date need to be in a special format? Plus I don't know why it won't accept my data as its perfectly ok. I'm pulling the long-lat numbers from google maps.

[stonyarc]

Originally Posted by limey

First of all I think this will be great.

Second why can't I add this to my database:
Your full text could not be added into the database because one or more fields blank were left blank. Please make sure you have enter all required information.
Return to previous page

Why should a location require a date? Does the date need to be in a special format? Plus I don't know why it won't accept my data as its perfectly ok. I'm pulling the long-lat numbers from google maps.

The marker text, the title and full text are mandatory fields. The lat and lng are filled in by the map or by setting the marker to a specific location. The date field is not mandatory. It's free text to allow people to freely enter a time description if relevant.

If you redownload the version that is now online and you overwrite the file vbgooglemaphse.php, you'll see that it now fills in a default text in the full text field.

The vbeditor takes his settings from the general settings of the forum so you cannot leave it empty. I'm looking for a fix for that one but the workaround is to download again and overwrite that file vbgooglemaphse.php, if you don't want to fill in something

[limey]

Ok thanks stonyarc. I was filling in everything, but for some reason it still wouldn't take. I'll try this version.

[limey]

I still get that error that it won't let me add an element. I'm giving up for now and will come back to it later.

"Your full text could not be added into the database because one or more fields blank were left blank. Please make sure you have enter all required information.
Return to previous page"

This looks to be one of the most useful hacks (once I get it working) for me that I've seen in a long time. Nice job.

[wizardan]

Fully tested all features.
Happy to report no bugs whatsover.
Awesome work, stonyarc.
I could see this, or the member edition as default in vB4.0

[stonyarc]

Originally Posted by limey

I still get that error that it won't let me add an element. I'm giving up for now and will come back to it later.

"Your full text could not be added into the database because one or more fields blank were left blank. Please make sure you have enter all required information.
Return to previous page"

This looks to be one of the most useful hacks (once I get it working) for me that I've seen in a long time. Nice job.

the full text error applies to the bottom vbulletin text editor. don't change the lat lng fields just click in the map somewhere.

marker title, marker text and full text that's the only thing you need to fill in and it should work fine.

[stonyarc]

Originally Posted by wizardan

Fully tested all features.
Happy to report no bugs whatsover.
Awesome work, stonyarc.
I could see this, or the member edition as default in vB4.0

Hey wizardan,

Thanks for fully testing it and reporting back.

There are some minor thingy like some redundant phrases but that should clear up in the next service release.

I'm quite happy with the functions and how they work it offers to the users. There is a lot of potential in this app.

This as default in vb 4 would be very nice. They might want to clean my code a bit but the concept is there

[limey]

Originally Posted by stonyarc

the full text error applies to the bottom vbulletin text editor. don't change the lat lng fields just click in the map somewhere.

marker title, marker text and full text that's the only thing you need to fill in and it should work fine.

I'm telling you its not. I just installed vbseo and I wonder if the final submit is causing something not to work.

When I add an element this is what it looks like: vbgooglemaphse.php?do=addelement

After it posts and I get that error I just see this:
vbgooglemaphse.php

Should it have all the variables on the end or is this ok?

Its definitely not working for me. Reuploaded the whole hack double and triple checked everything. I'll try it on another board in a little bit and see if it works there.

[stonyarc]

Originally Posted by limey

I'm telling you its not. I just installed vbseo and I wonder if the final submit is causing something not to work.

When I add an element this is what it looks like: vbgooglemaphse.php?do=addelement

After it posts and I get that error I just see this:
vbgooglemaphse.php

Should it have all the variables on the end or is this ok?

Its definitely not working for me. Reuploaded the whole hack double and triple checked everything. I'll try it on another board in a little bit and see if it works there.

I believe you, I'm just looking for a solution.

For dynamic application like vbgooglemap and vbgooglemaphse you'll have to configure vbseo to exclude, bypass or ignore them.

They even mention that on their site.

http://www.vbseo.com/vbseo-interface/