Modules: Google Maps : release 0.8

Posted by: MarcoOn 2006/9/8 22:00:00 8705 reads
In this release, i've added some new cool features. One of the most important of them is the use of smarty templates. You will, from now, be able to play with dedicated cache settings,and to modify your page's apparearence more easily !

Moreover, 2 templates have been created:
- one for those who want to add "user centric" markers (for community website)
- one for those who want to display only locations

Other new features are listed below in the changelog (changes made since early 0.7 version).

Next works : add blocks, improve category management (to be able to set different markers per category), introduce a new method to display (more quickly) markers

Real stable version will be declared with 1.0 version of this module.

Download

Demo

Rem : Please read carefully "readme.txt" file, since there are some new important instructions in this version
Rem : please add url links so i can see what's wrong, based on the fact that something does not work.

Have fun, and thanks all for your feedbacks.


Changelog
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Version 0.8 (Marco) - 06/09/06
- add 2 templates for index.php page : user centric map/ location centric map. An option in module preferences has been added, so that this module can benefit from smarty cache feature as well.The other pages of this module will have their own template later. Special thanks to kris for icons hunting
- add parameter in module preferences to manage how many last point to display in "Last Points" area
- add keyboard zoom featurec CTRL + "flèches" or CRTL + "+" ou "-"
- add switch to admin mode from user side
- add display of avatar in the user centric template
- add dedicated css file, there is no need to modify manualy main css file of your xoops theme anymore
- add draggable marker feature on new/modification of markers
- delete file /includes/header.php , update readme.txt file
- fix zoom bug on "Last Points" or "Category" links - thx khuhner
- fix zoom bug on new/modify markers (no more blank zoom field in forms on click) - thx Djiman

Version 0.7g (Marco) - 21/08/06
- fix end tag for div and fix for directions

Version 0.7f (Marco) - 20/08/06
- end fixes for css2 compliancy, fixed some errors on IE browser too
- add max width per infowindow
- add wrap feature in infowindow for too large contents
- modify call to GoogleMap API

Version 0.7e (Marco) - 09/08/06
- add mouseover/clickout effect
- replacement of some residual < b > tag by < b />
- code rewriting to better use ", ' and limit bugs on some plateforms
- residual fixes for mysql 5

Version 0.7d (Marco) - 08/08/06
- add a check whether user has set his real name or not. if not, uname (login) will be used
- delete all unecessary < table >, make output rendering css compliant, move some parts so that it displays well on more websites

Version 0.7c (Marco) - 08/08/06
- remove blank ('') insert from map_id in admin.php, which was an autoincrement field (it caused an mysql "error Error Code: 0013 ERROR: Could not query the database. Error: Out of range value adjusted for column 'map_id' at row 1" on category creation), reported by khuhner
- remove some sprintf call in admin.php

Version 0.7b (Marco) - 07/08/06
- replace XOOPS_ROOT_PATH by XOOPS_URL in maps.js

Version 0.7a (Marco) - 06/08/06
- quick fix just after release (typo in maps.js)