Major Additions - VBGooglemap Hotspot Edition

This modification contains a security vulnerability, you are hereby advised to uninstall until further notice.

- vBulletin.org Staff



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

This is the port of the VB 3.5.X version (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=114149)

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

[FleaBag]

I had a conflict with vBJournal, when installing the product. Something about updating the usergroup bitfields. I can't uninstall vBJ sadly, as I'd love to use this.

[Betablocker]

Originally Posted by Manny.Munich

*installed* two times on two boards

but one forum isn't working, could not see it in acp...

Same thing here which is odd
i have it running on 3.6.2 site which was 3.6.0 but now it wont work on another of my 3.6.0 sites will not show in the admincp

I have installed a few times and reloaded all the files one at a time...still no show

Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance.

[Manny.Munich]

Originally Posted by Betablocker

Same thing here which is odd
i have it running on 3.6.2 site which was 3.6.0 but now it wont work on another of my 3.6.0 sites will not show in the admincp

I have installed a few times and reloaded all the files one at a time...still no show

Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance.

Now it works on my sites...

I've done following:
Normally i log in with my Username Manny which it's also an admin but the UserID is 2.
Then i tried to log in to the ACP as Admin (UserID 1) and it works. Back as Manny and it also works.
That solved my problem with missing in ACP. Try login as the adminuser with the id1. Hope this helps.

[Manny.Munich]

Another question.

Is it allowed to translate it to german?

[Betablocker]

Originally Posted by Manny.Munich

Now it works on my sites...

I've done following:
Normally i log in with my Username Manny which it's also an admin but the UserID is 2.
Then i tried to log in to the ACP as Admin (UserID 1) and it works. Back as Manny and it also works.
That solved my problem with missing in ACP. Try login as the adminuser with the id1. Hope this helps.

Good man that has worked for me also.

Thank you very much :up:

[JimLink]

Well it works for me as UserID 1 which is admin, but still not as my other admin account... very odd.

Stonyarc, do you know when you'll get a chance to finish up and possibly release the next version with the updates you said you were wanting to include?

[Betablocker]

Originally Posted by JimLink

Well it works for me as UserID 1 which is admin, but still not as my other admin account... very odd.

Stonyarc, do you know when you'll get a chance to finish up and possibly release the next version with the updates you said you were wanting to include?

Did you edit your forums/includes/config.php
and add your id to the SUPER ADMINISTRATORS bit ?

I added myself to all of them and it worked for me....good luck

[stonyarc]

Ok people,

Next versions are in the making.

I'm aiming for a before Xmas release so please pm me features you want to see added.

currently already on the list:

- Improved permission
- optional geocoding (maybe in special version)
- load speed
- tuning
- beter css control
- beter edit functions
- ...

[r5e]

Hey Stonyarc, good to see you are still working on this one. I will make a donation on your next revision.

I've already mentioned a few suggestions in my last post in here. But since then, geocoding is really the main feature that I desperately need. I notice that the current api (v2) supports geocoding, so I'd hope this makes it simple to implement here. So, here is a summary of the features that I think would be good (apart from my original suggestions):

• Geocoding would have to be my #1 most useful feature, as my users are far less likely to submit locations on the map if they have to go to a 3rd party site to get the lat/log first. If they could simply use an address and look it up in my site directly, then they will actually start to use the map. With the geocoding, it would be nice to have the option to "add this as a location" from within the API. What I mean is, when a user has searched and found the location they want via geocoding, they can simply click on a link to add that location as a marker. They would then get the option to choose the category add extra fields, etc. This would save the user having to cut & paste the lat/long from the geocode when they wanted to enter a location. Lastly, geocoding would only be available to registered members (or possibly definable user groups).
  
• Also, the ability to zoom in and out with the scroll wheel of the mouse would be cool, but again, I guess that's probably included with the current API?
  
• The categories are currently available to be listed/filtered in text links. It would be nice if the categories could be filtered on the map as well. What I mean is that currently, there are coloured markers on the map for each category and the coloured flags are displayed along the top in the "HSE Dashboard". It would be great if clicking on one of these categories would highlight only the items matching that category on the map and hide the others. Perhaps you could add a "show" label to the front of these the also include another category for "show all", which would possibly be the default display.
  
• The ability to rate a location, or for users to provide extra comments. In my case, I list biodiesel suppliers, so it would be good if members could rate (say from 1 to 5) how well they trusted the quality of the supplier at that location. If this is too hard, then at least the ability for the original submitter of that location to be able to have a field to provide that data (already in my original suggestion).

I look forward to the next release.

[r5e]

Also...

• The ability to link directly to a marker. I'd like to be able to post a link in a forum thread to a marker on the map with a defined zoom. For example when a link gets put to the component, it will start at the default view, which is zoomed out. It would be nice if when a link was posted to the marker, it could zoom in as well as centering the marker on the map.
  
• The ability for a user to edit their own entries. Currently, permissions are only set for add, edit delete etc. This means that generally registered users can add, moderators can edit and admins delete (or something like that). What happens when a user adds a marker and gets it wrong? They have to ask a mod or an admin to fix it for them.
  
• Link to the calendar for events, This comes with my first point. But it would also allow the link to expire when the calendar listing does and better synch with the calendar system.