Question Google Map [map] tags

Rob,

We appriciate your feedback, but I am not sure I understand your comment. This is not about coding challenges. We are sharing our work for free with the community. We added the basic maps support based on the latest Google Maps API (e.g. it does not require any of the old keys you have to use on most other software to set it up), it simply works out of the box based on the most current Google API.

Unfortunately that Google API currently does not support custom maps, only Google knows why they did or did not do that.

There is no bbcode 'standard' each and every forum has implemented their own tags and extensions. If you would like to get an enhancement or extension written, then I suggest you simply propose that. If you want to donate a 'bounty' for any open source developer to write you that feature, you are free to do so.

Most of us do this in our sparetime AFTER going to work and living our personal lives. There are millions of feature ideas and we have to focus on the most important ones. Its not that we are not willing or capable of doing this and thousands of other ideas, but our time we donate to the world is limited. Even though it is we built a very feature rich component that is evolving all the time.

If you want to help us add feature like that, you can do so - we encourage you to do so - even if you are not a programmer. You could for example start by collecting all the details and information, maybe even the example how it is done in another solution.
This is a community that comes together to evolve what we have built together, not a company that you tell what the list of things are you want and that you tell: oh by the way if you don't give it to me I am going to use somebody else's solution. You really need to understand the open source concept a little better than: I want free software.

This is a community of volunteers and I keep getting a bit of heartburn when people who received a donation demand more. Next time you donate $10 to your favorite charity they might come and demand more money. Its kind of backwards.

So by all means, help us make Kunena better. Pay it forward and take some action, I am sure you will like the outcome.

I wasn't trying to be rude saying I have to use another piece of software, I just need the functionality of adding user generated maps to our forum. Its not any kind of ultimatum...

I know you guys doing this do it for free in your spare time and fully appreciate the gravity and scale of the task you've undertaken. I applaud you all for it.

By standardised bbcode I mean the code that gets generated for adding to forums and sites such as Facebook I guess which Google creates its self. I don't know if you have created your own maps or not, but if you haven't you get two links for embedding. One for forums and one for html sites.

Once again, I wasn't trying to be rude or whiney, just matter of fact and when I talk standard I mean the sites which create the code for embedding have already created a standard which the forums such as yours can draw upon.

I'll have a search through the forum later and see how I can add bbcodes to the forum software as you seem to point in the direction that users can. I don't want to editing pages of PHP code though I'm not up to it...

Thanks for the reply again and as I say I meant no offence so sorry if I caused any.

Rob

No worries.

The code that facebook and youtube and others generate is usually a BIG no no for any public forums. What they generate is NOT bbcode, but raw javascript, the type, that when modified allows hackers to do really bad things.

It would be best if you could give a concrete example of how it is done in phpBB or any other solution you know about that does that. It would be great to see both the raw text, that you enter as a user, as well as the output that it generates for viewing the page.

We are about to get Kunena 2.0 into Alpha and it will come with a brand new bbcode engine that is based on the standalone NBBC bbcode parser engine. It allows for much easier extension of bbcode than out old engine could do. This might be a greta example of what could be added out of the box.

Hope this helps!

All I can find at the moment is a bunch of stuff using the <iframe> tag which I understand is a no no as it allows alot of malicious code to be introduced. (I had allowed html on an old version of phpBB and I got spammed with porn so it was short lived and turned back off quickly.)

phpBB 3xx allows easy addition of BBcode in the control panel (which I guess is what your stand alone engine will do) and I had added a custom piece of code written by a community user which I now can't find and can't retrieve off my phpBB forum as my FTP got hacked and database knackered locking me out of the admin panel...

Using the <iframe> tag it comes out like this-

<iframe width="400" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="{URL}&amp;output=embed"></iframe>

Used like this on the site-

I have seen some minor variations using this variant but are generally mostly the same. If I could find the code I had used I'd be very happy but I can't.

Rob.

PS Where can I find the code in the files of 1.6? smile.class.php doesn't seem to exist anymore?

in components/com_kunena/lib


kunena.parser.php

AND

kunena.google.maps.class.php

Hope this helps!

The best way would be to check if the $between (text between the tags) is a valid google maps url and then branch and display that - need to know if that can be done with the 3.0 API from google.