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This is something I originally made almost 5 years ago.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

[FTDave]

here is a snapshot of my usermap and session table
The id 2999 is me

[FTDave]

It looks like the bots are user id 0
Why are they showing as admins?

[Boofo]

Are you running a cache on your server? And did you clear your browser cache?

[FTDave]

no cache on server.
I cleared browser cache.
I can delete all sessions in table and all pins go away
Strange.

[Boofo]

What do you have set for the cookie timeout?

[digitalpoint]

The code itself doesn't look at secondary usergroups, so you can rule that out.

Let's see if it's the setting first of all...

In your usermap.php file, if you change this:

PHP Code:

$admins_mods = explode(',', $vbulletin->options['digitalpoint_usermap_admins']); 


to this:

PHP Code:

$admins_mods = explode(',', $vbulletin->options['digitalpoint_usermap_admins']);
print_r ($admins_mods); 


It should barf out an array of usergroup IDs that it thinks should be mods/admins.

[FTDave]

When I tried this it came up with the correct userid.

Update:
I did nothing. The map started working. I have no idea.

[Boofo]

The session table must gave gotten cleared out okay.

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

I found the link.. but here is what i get when i click on it.
It this because of my host.? (missing php ext)

Fatal error: Call to undefined function geoip_record_by_name() in /home/content/08/4856008/html/gamelobby/Forum/usermap.php on line 100

Any ideas.?
My host says they do support it.

Thanks

[digitalpoint]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Any ideas.?
My host says they do support it.

Thanks

They are wrong.