Integrate Flashmap with community builder

[butterbur]

This should work with any version of community builder, if you know otherwise please let me know.
Required are GD on your server, SEF turned on, the flashmap files and the swfimgproxy files, which are needed to handle non .jpg files. You should also download and edit the attached file which is a replacement for the mapdata.php file that is part of the flashmap package.

You can download the Flashmap files from http://www.allthegoodness.com/projects/map/index.php

The license on this is software is a little vague but as he seems to be asking for donations I would classify it as donation ware.

You can get the swfimgproxy files from
http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000407.php

Unpack the files into a convenient space on your local machine. You will not need to upload many of the files from the flashmap archive as it contains the flash source and alternate ways of getting the data.

Upload the mapdata folder to your mambo root so that it remains as a directory under mambo.
Upload the edited mapdata.php file that you downloaded from here along with the extracted files from swfimgproxy to your mambo root.

Create two profile text fields in comprofiler for longitude & latitude, call them long and lat, if you haven't already got a field for "city" you will need to create that as well.

Either create a static content page or edit an existing page you want to show the map and enter the code found in the flashmap index.php file starting with <object> and ending with </object>. If your page shows nothing then try changing your configuration to use a different text editor ( I used none).

As long as a user profile has a picture and a longitude/latitude they should show up on your map.

I think that's it but let me know of problems.
Regards
Martin

[crow]

Thnx butterbur for this GREAT Howto, integrate map with mambo and Comunity Builder.
I have working mambo 4.5.2.1 and CB Enchanced Version 25-02'05 and map 1.3. Using your howto its integrated great, and working like a charm.

I have no other words then thex a lot and keep up such great stuff for this Mambo COmunity.


Thnx.

[ChicoMendez]

wow - superb!!

[beat.b]

Originally Posted by butterbur

As long as a user profile has a picture and a longitude/latitude they should show up on your map.

Very nice !
Two questions:
- do you know a way or a database to automatically compute the longitude/latitude based on address (or at least town/country) ?
- I understand it needs flash installed, which cannot be taken for granted. But does it fall-back to Javascript if flash is not installed ?

-Beat

[eyezberg]

I would contact flashmaps author about these. http://www.allthegoodness.com/projects/map/index.php
Javascript is not used, how would you zoom with dhtml?

[lewis_jsy]

Thanks so much for taking the time to post a very helpful tutorial, I managed to integrate the map quite quickly.

I did hit a couple of problems though, community builder seem to prefix all newly created fields with "cb_". I didn't see how to turn this off, probably missed something along the way.

Anyway any other users that get this problem one quick way is to edit mapxml.php to:

AND b.cb_lat <> ''
AND b.cb_long <> '' ";

and change:

latitude="'.$row[cb_lat].'"
longitude="'.$row[cb_long].'"

Hope this helps anyone,

www.km90.co.uk

[dave132]

I'm having a strange problem where the map is loaded with users up until about a month ago. The weird thing is that if I remove the:

location="'.$row[city].'"

everything loads fine. Any idea on what might be happening here. I check several of the users and the have all the info entered including the city.

[inkpassion]

Ok Ive been able to fix my own problems and have it working. I have attached 2 files one is a mod that displays the mod the second is all the files you need if your running SEF or not. Good luck to all!

[JayShoe]

I have tried to install this fix onto my temp site (www.digitaldjsllc.com/LECD) and the flash won't even load up... What do you think I am doing wrong? I've gotten the map to load within the sample site (http://www.knabba.com) and it works well. I think that I just installed something wrong...

inkpassion: does your mod allow us to ignore all other things going on within the previous posts???

[zero-one]

Hi Guys,

I'm working on this site http://193.109.188.36/ and under the DEALERS-section I want to integrate the Flashmap and use it for the dealer location in Europe for the bodytone products. Who can help me, explaine how to do it, to get this fixed.

Where do I start ?

Thanks in advance,

Zero-One