yabb.info Member Map

[Thunderace]

Suddenly it all works great, trouble is I've absolutely no idea which bit I'd missed lol.


Big thanks To Chris Cromer for all his time today, Andrea too.

[Thunderace]

For anyone else who's interested in this, perhaps with a UK map mine is here

As an addition I integrated the excellent Bio Mod by Jedi so that you click on a pin then see the user and bio.

[goosemoose]

I have mine partly going and the map appears in windows xp, but in my xp machine it tries to download the php file and returns junk. Ideas?
http://www.goosemoose.com/rfc/worldmap_image.php

[goosemoose]

I also just edited subs.php and when I click on the icon the indexboard just reloads. What did I miss? Do I need to add something to index.php as well? Check out http://www.goosemoose.com/rfc

[goosemoose]

I am assuming its in my subs as well:

Code Select Expand

// membermap
       $yymenu .= "$menusep<a href=\"$scripturl?action=WorldMap\"><img src=\"$imagesdir/rfc/YaBBImages/membermap.gif\" alt=\"Member Map\" border=\"0\"></a>";I have worldmap_images in the same dir as index.php and WorldMap.php in my sources dir. I tried changing action=WorldMap to worldmap_images and worldmap as well but it didn't do anything.

[goosemoose]

Wohoo fixed it, guess I Just needed the added code in index.php

[goosemoose]

Okay, I am now putting this on another forum and I am having a problem, the image won't appear! Funning php version 4.1.2. Everything else seems to be working okay. I also tried rewriting the code for a gif and uploaded it and the gif and still no go. Any idea? Http://www.damien-hs.edu/forum/index.php
test:test account is set up
http://www.damien-hs.edu/forum/info.php has server info

[andrea]

My ISP upgraded the server, and now my member map does not work any more ...  

Looks exactly like goosemoose's map: a broken image symbol only.

(broken) map here:
http://www.1eltern.ch/community/index.php?action=worldmap

[andrea]

I suppose that the reason for the member map not running any longer is that the GD library is not installed any longer on my webserver. So the imagecreate() statement and related statements fail to run. I asked the ISP to install this library.

[mediman]

gd library was yesterday today ist Netpbm!
you can install own binaries if your isp is not willing to reinstall gd library!

mediman

[goosemoose]

Can you give me a link to the GD library so I can send it to my webhost or try to install myself. Thanks

[andrea]

Can you give me a link to the GD library so I can send it to my webhost or try to install myself. Thanks

@goosemoose: Here is the link:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php

gd library was yesterday today ist Netpbm!
you can install own binaries if your isp is not willing to reinstall gd library!

@mediman: do you have a link to "Netpbm"?

[mediman]

of course!

netpbm http://sourceforge.net/projects/netpbm/

and gd lib http://www.boutell.com/gd/http/gd-1.8.4.zip

to install gd lib read also http://www.boutell.com/gd/manual1.8.4.html cause other libs are needed!

medi

if you have any questions....

btw: why using netpbm instead gd library?

• GD won't support JPEG or PNG formats unless you have them compiled in to PHP. Most servers don't have it compiled in because it can be a pain to install the right libraries, etc.
• GD won't support GIF unless you have a particularly old version of the GD library on your system that predates the copyright infringement issues.
• GD does not support image rotation. Can ya believe it?
• GD generates terrible thumbnails, unless you happen to have included the ImageCopyResizedBicubic patch.

(friendly stolen by menalto *gg*!)

[andrea]

Thanks for the links. Just downloaded and read a little in the netpbm documentations.

I have seen that netpbm is requiring ZLIB which also has been uninstalled from my webserver.

The fact that my ISP did not even activate ZLIB after the server "upgrade" looks to me not very qualified.

I suppose that it's easier to change provider than to invest days and nights of work for activating an own graphics library.  

[mediman]

hmm, do you know any image manipulating library that not need zlib?   gd lib also need zlib!

but i agree, change the hosting provider! i think you will avoid a lot of trouble!

mediman