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[Michael]

File Name: (FSY22) Venues v1.1
Author: Michael
Category: IP.Board v2.2.x Mods
Description:
A complete system for management of various types of venues. Useful for any forum that needs to keep track of locations of stores, resturants, libraries, etc. Features the ability for members to submit their own venues to the system (with approval permissions granted to admin-specified groups), define a 'home' venue, contact all members at a certain venue via either email or PM, define their own personal location, find other forum members near them, and lots of other features. Admins can specify group permissions on many of these features, and control settings such as whether guests can access the system, the number of records to display per page, whether the system is online or offline, etc. There are way too many features to list them all!

Requirements:
This mod was designed to be installed using the Universal Mod Installer, available from IPS Resources or Invision Modding.

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[Tim]

Hey Mike, can I see some screenshots? Also, do you accept money orders?

[DeanHennings]

YES I would like to see more to !!!!

[Michael]

I'll try to get this installed some place and get some screenshots for you.  I don't take money orders, however, only PayPal.

[smallblockfuelie]

Tag for the screen shots when they are available.

[Michael]

Here's your screenshots

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[pedrok]

Hi just wondering if anyone has this mod up so I could have look.  
thanks
Pete

[Morph]

I had Michael install mine on a members only forum and it is brilliant.  I think this will become an even more powerful tool in the future.

[smallblockfuelie]

Any chance of getting a temp guest account so I can check it out?

[Luis]

I had Michael install mine on a members only forum and it is brilliant.  I think this will become an even more powerful tool in the future.

Michael,

I am very interested in this mod. Just a couple of questions:

1. I assume that there are lang files that can be translated into other languages, correct?
2. China J is currently working on a custom skin for my site. Does he need to take into consideration this mod during his skin design process or will it [the mod] just adapt to the new skin?
3. Does the mod have the capacity to show a venue's location on google maps by just clicking on the right button?
4. I am also interested in having this mod work on a restricted forum. Does that require any special skills, or is it something I can configure on my own (I have installed several mods, but have no coding knowledge whatsoever).

Thanks!

[Michael]

1. Yep, it has a language file for all on-screen text except for the link in the global board header, but the installer will add that to your lang_global.php file.
2. It will depend on how customized your skin is.  It will automatocally create the skin template for this mod for that skin, but those templates are based on the structure of the IPB Default Skin, it might need to be tweaked a bit.
3. No, not Google maps, unfortunately, but it is integrated with MapQuest.  At the time I developed this, the customer who requested it wanted MapQuest, and Google Maps weren't as popular as they are today.
4. What do you mean by 'restricted forum'?  Do you mean your source files are encoded because of hosting your forum with IPS?  If so, since there are no file edits in this mod, that's not a problem.  I can't think of any other meanings for restricted forum that might affect this, it should work in whatever setup you have.

[Luis]

Purchased (along with Member Manager). Let me know what the next step is.

Thanks!

PS An upgrade so Venue can use Google Maps would be very nice...

[Michael]

Mods are on their way to you.

Yes, integration with Google maps would be nice, hopefully I'll have time to do that at some point.

[Luis]

Mod installed and everything seems to be Ok, except for the fact that the mod added the "Venue" link only to the Classic Blue skin, skipping the IPB Pro skin.

So, how do I add the link to the Pro skin, and how do I change the label "Venue" to something else?

Finally, I belive you have added all US zip codes, right? How do I add zip codes to Spain? Do I first need to look up the long and lat data? where do you get that from? Is there a table out there that can be imported?

Thanks!

[Michael]

Your Pro skin must have the $component_links section removed, this mod is a component and like all component links nothing special ever needs to be done to get the link to show up on all skins.  Check to see if you have this block of code in your All Global HTML -> global_board_header template:

CODE

            <if="$component_links != """>
                {$component_links}
            </if>

To edit the text, download your lang_global.php file for that language, find the word Venues in it, change it to what you'd like, save, and upload.

Yes, all US zip codes should be in it.  You can add zip codes via the ACP, but it doesn't have any mass-add function.  I found a (nearly) complete US list online, if you can find one for Spain then an import can be built out of that.

[Luis]

Nope, that block of code isn't there... So I fixed it.

As for Spain´s zip codes, if I do get a list of all zip codes, how does the long and lat info get added? Do I need a list with that information as well?

Thanks!

Edited by Luis, 31 August 2007 - 01:04 AM.

[Michael]

The list I got came with that info.

[Luis]

I see. I have been able to locate a couple of files:

One is an xml file where the roo/parent element is "spain", in the second level there are all zip codes, and the third level there are municipal names and street names which correspond to the zip code parent element.

The second file is a MySQL file containing the following elements: One table with provinces (your equivalent to states), another with municipalities, and another with streets. Since one zip code can belong to varios municipalities there is an idMunicipio field with an AutoIncrement behaviour. Same goes with the streets, where there is a idCalles field AutoIncrement behaviour. With the zip code streets and municipalities are related.

None posess the geographical coordinates, though. You think any of the above may be of help?

PS Do I need the coordinates for the user lookup feature to work?

Edited by Luis, 31 August 2007 - 11:57 AM.

[Michael]

You'd have to have the latitude and longitude values for this to be much help, those are what is used for that user lookup feature.

[Luis]

Will this do it?

Geo data international world wide with towns, town quarters and postal codes. Georeferences as UTM- and geographic coordinates (WGS84, ETRS89) and elevations. Suitable for branch searches, periphery searches and distance computations. These countries are available: Albania, Andorra, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Gibraltar, Greece, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Ex Yugoslavia, Canada, Croatia, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldavia, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Czech Republic, Turkey, Ukraine, Hungary, Vatican, White Russia, USA, Australia, Cyprus and many more. The download contains a test composition of data cutouts of a lot of countries in different file formates and the exact data description. Here the available data fields of the tables are specified: National identification of the country, local identification for the place within the country, postal zip code, town name, town quarter name, local administrative identification (municipality key), geographical longitude and geographical latitude in degree and deg/min/sec notation, UTM easting and UTM northing on the natural and an uniformal meridian strip, Ground elevation over the sea level, 4 hierarchical administrative units, which are superordinate the place. First the data base tables are present in a standard file format (dBase, ASCII / OEM character set). They can be imported directly into MS-EXCEL, MS-ACCESS and in Borlands dBase. In addition the data base tables can be converted with the downloadable freeware program CONVERT into different data formats with the necessary characteristics, selections and sort sequences. For example you can convert the data into the SDF format (Simple Document Format) or into the CSV format (Comma Separated Value) using character sets ASCII / OEM or ANSI / WINDOWS or direct in MySQL.