"Refine/Set my location" block -- some ideas

Hi Rik

Hierdie is 'n ongelooflike module en jy doen uitstekende werk, baie dankie.

Just a short thank you for Rik in Afrikaans. He should get it as he has an array of languages under his belt :)

Back to this feature request:

I have noticed that there is also some work done using the global filter and this module. It has HTML5 and proximity capabilities and you can extend the filter with other search filters.

The "Refine Location" block is sort of a global filter too, but only effects IP_geoloc views if I am correct.

What would this "refine location" block be appropriate for to use?
Meaning in my previous comment I want to make use of it as a location search. Maybe I am using it in the wrong way.

Could you please put me in the right direction if I want to setup a location search filter that use HTML5 location to pre fill the location text field and optionally select a proximity.

Things I like about this filter is

1. if you place it on the front page with an ip leaflet map your website opens up on your location with your location marker in the centre and the "Refine Location" block has your address prefilled.
2. if you would enter another street address and submit you stay on the front page url and it does not open a url with funny filter keys in the url.

Things I would like to be able to do with this filter.

1. select a proximity, not enter a value but select from a list. The select values could be set in the block admin and the format (km/miles)
2. set a default country(s) in the filter to allow. I want to set the filter to only work if you access my website in my country, if your ip is outside of my selected country the ip_views must display all values. In this way the map don't open up where there is no markers and outside visitors can then refine there location
3. pre populate the "refine location" field from a url fragment. Lets say you want to show a city page like /city/cape-town with the refine location block pre populated with the the name Cape Town, South Africa. In this way you can simply increase the proximity and find info that is more than just Cape Town and includes surrounding suburbs.
4. Change the fix my location check box into a radio button options as exlained in above comment

I am rebuilding my D6 website and your module is going to do the bulk of the work.
To give you an idea you can look at my frontpage and here is a town page

Thanks
Paul

Hi, thanks Rik

I will work on this and send you a link to my test site when done, Then you can have a look at how it works.
Thanks

A very interesting outcome.

The proximity filter works perfect, but when you enable the grouping of the proximity filter the "address field" part of the proximity filter dissapear. So in order to search another location you need to enter the address in the "refine your location" block. You also need to check, "Fix my location at this address" otherwise when you change the proximity dropdown to a different distance it reverts back to the html5 location. Disabling the grouping shows a distance value and a address field. But this address field does not get populated with the address like your block does. It looks like this:

Hi Rik

I am willing to pull in and commission you to make us the best proximity search filter.

Should I start a new page for this or change the title or something?

I am willing to put down R500 that is 4 days minimum pay in south afrika.
To work out the amount in $ simply divide it by 10,.. no 11,... well maybe 12 by the time you read this.

:) Paul

Very interesting. I live in one of the most popular tourism attractions. If you come you can stay free for 2 weeks (hope you don't have a big family) And I will even pay the $45, no wait $43.. well a few bucks when you arrive.

Actually you are talking about a concept me and another Drupler were discussing a few years ago, Travel for free and in turn Drupalize
your holiday. It would be loads of fun, you get the couch and I will pull my sleeping bag close and we can just lay there and discuss all drupal related stuff. Except if you would rather sleep in a tent among lions and elephants, it might bring us to drupal consents never thought off before.

Coming back to this thread, I am willing to put down $50 no matter what the currency. (Except if they sack our president in the next few days for stealing from the people, I might have to revise that amount!)

I know a fair price for you would be to charge $75-$150 per hour.
That is why my contribution is only a drop in the bucket
So if there are any other Druplers who want to need this, please help.

Otherwise, I pick you up at Cape Town Airport and we can start with a seance drive to my home town, stopping at every pub on the way - you will then experience my need for a great proximity filter, first hand.
I cant wait until SA play another game of rugby or cricket against Newzeland, but that would have given you a good excuse to come over here.

Hi Rik

My desk does not look that great, anyway we will be using the wine barrel on the vineyard to work on while we wait for the wine to breathe.

This trip can really become a reality. Only thing is you will need to buy your plain ticket and bring wine money. I will pick you up drive you around and give you accommodation and a meal (home cooking style). You can bring your girlfriend with, she can keep my girlfriend company. But with the girls there we might need to rewrite paypal to cover expenses. As my website is tourism based I can get some nice deals and we can stay in a few places, so you will see allot. I will take the time to also have a holiday. SA offers Award winning 750ml beer only $1.20 and great wine $3. You can jump off the tallest bridge jump in the world for $50 - but that is expensive.

If we don't get all the work done while you are here, you can always give me an i.o.u when you go back home.

Paul

May is when all the Gay festivals are. It will be winter then so temperatures can drop to 15 degrees (very cold compared to summer). At the coast it does not rain much, but it will still be winter. We can visit one of those hot springs on the way back from Capetown to my house. Nothing like drinking red wine in a hot spring. My aim is to finish my D7 version of my website before you come. It will have a beta sign until you arrive. Your module plays a very big part of my site and I make use of Shushu (Mobile4Social) drupal android app to receive Google cloud messages via an app when approaching nodes via your proximity. Your IP view module tells rules whats up and that's how the messages gets send. So how much do you think I should spend on you? R5000 its about $500 nope $486.. well $450 will be save. What to calculate how long you can stay.

If any other druplers are reading this and also want a great proximity filter pleas contribute some spending money to Riks SA trip

Hi Rik

You must have seen this 2134777#comment-8732083

First, I build a map and markers and tested the set location, all works well.

Then I tryed to add the proximity filter and had an ajax error as explained above.

Then I added the proximity filter and activated the group feature and exposed the filter.

This is what error I get on the map page when loading it. the proximity filter does not expose itself.

Warning: trim() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in geofieldProximityGeocoderWithHTML5->getSourceValue() (line 12 of /sites/all/modules/contrib/ip_geoloc/views/proximity_plugins/geofieldProximityGeocoderWithHTML5.inc).

Hope it helps

did i read you right?

remove current Geofield module with any patches you may have applied; download Geofield 7.x-1.x-dev and then apply this new patch: https://drupal.org/node/2134777#comment-8731227

I did the patch against Geofield 7.x-2.x-dev
You sure I must patch it against Geofield 7.x-1.x-dev

No, Problem

Can you confirm the bug

Warning: trim() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in geofieldProximityGeocoderWithHTML5->getSourceValue() (line 12 of /sites/all/modules/contrib/ip_geoloc/views/proximity_plugins/geofieldProximityGeocoderWithHTML5.inc).

Or did I make a mistake in setup

Hi Rik

Your module (latest dev) works perfect with the supplied geofield.
I have setup a view just like the one in your image and it works perfect.
Will give you a full report soon

Hi Rik

Here is a link, that will melt away to noting by sunrise,

A proximity for South Africa

It is set to Box (default = any)

The map is an attachment

The view is a page

Ajax paging does not work, but auto submit works.

Submitting a street address works, but I have to append (,South Africa)

try my village, Sedgefield
You get the one in UK

Maybe explode a text field in block settings to add country, this will make it country specific but will help lazy users that just enter a postal address or a street address without a country

If I enter "Sedgefield, South Africa, South Africa" the geocode is at least SA
meaning you can add the country twice and geocode will ignore it.

Rik, Do you have one of those Google sleeping power-nap pods?

Coz u are up 24 hours.

I have not tried Smart IP, will do (They have changed 90% of our country's names in the last 10 years so the yanks gave up on tracking us, most ip's are outdated, and city names are unknown)

What works well is the mobile network connection, it place the location on the spot, but a land line connection use the ip, and the fallback is the closest server IP. In my case the server is 40km away from my real location, calculated via html geocoding.

But have to go now, looking for some cardboard boxes to build my own power-nap capsule.

Wow, the region is unexpected and a very nice addition.

Just a quick question, how would the user select the region.
Address field has a province selector, and adding a second province selector via taxonomy will look a bit duplicated in the form. or when you say region, we have regions inside province, like "Garden Route" is inside the "Western Cape" Province, so is the "Wine Route"
Adding a region then will make sense, but adding a province would look funny in the form.

I guess you could use rules to add the taxonomy term after node save. Another thing is I have bought a postal address database of SA and is buzzy to load it into address field so you can select a province and the city selection then changes to only city's in that province. I can now add the regions too narrowing down the city selection even more. Like this Province >> Region >> City >> Postal Code

Must I add any thing to the taxonomy fields, like geofield?

Thanks for the partial address part in the block

Will start testing when I come back from the farmers market or (Boere Mark) like your surname suggests :)

Hi Rik

I think I have to wait for the world to turn a bit, so that I can catch up with the latest dev.

It still shows 1May dev here in SA, had this experience before with other modules where the authors live in other country's that is before mine in the world latitude timeline. Its like you live in the future, and I am 1 day behind. :)

Hi Rik

Here is what I have build so far, this time I have added a taxonomy and font icons.

I have not added a region taxonomy yet so that is not tested.

The new updated version has a bug i think. If i enter a "Default partial address" in the block settings it stops working on Fire Fox, but Chrome works

In fire fox:
I enter "South Africa as the Default partial address. then on the view page if I enter an address say "Cape Town, South Africa" nothing happens, I can set it multiple times it will not geocode the address. If I remove the partial address in the block I can set my location to Cape Town.

Also it is as if the first submit does not do anything. Lets say i come to the page for the first time, I change the address to "Cape Town" and set location. Nothing happens and it puts my geocoded address in. The I set the location again, and then it will go to "Cape Town", if I now change the address to some other town, it works immediately.

My thoughts about the "Default partial address" was that it is a hidden string of address you add to what ever the user types in the set location block.
So if I set the "Default partial address" in the block to ",South Africa" and I visit the set location block it should not suggest ",South Africa" but rather let you enter "Cape Town" then when you submit the field looks like this "Cape Town, South Africa"

Another thing.

I have set my marker size to 42 x 52. Now its offset is off by -10 on top and -10 on the left. It looks like the system wants to ajust the marker offset by -32px but that is not enough. Also have a look at the popup, it is way far away from the marker. My font icons is set to align to the center not the baseline of the marker.

Will send you a link when I test the geo-taxonomy
Thanks for everything this far.

Ok, let me test the latest views release and the latest dev of your module.

I use flaticon, manually placed in the theme in a folder called icons.
Bootstrap also come with a set of icons that i use, and the warning in the settings page that states I have not enabled Font awsome makes me feel I am not utilizing all the features :P

The proximity works when a valid address is entred like "Cape Town, South Africa", It also works on my geocoded location. But if you get there the first time the distance shows 0.0km. I am planning to hide 0.0 with css if that happens.
The grouping filters work perfect, I will add more to the select list.

The reason why I want to "force the address to a country" is that we have loads of town names that is also in other country's, like my hometown "Sedgefield" and idiots will enter "Sedgefield" and end up in England

Back shortly with more updates

The steps work like this.

I use the bootstrap theme but this should work for any theme

Create a custom icon pack on flaticon
Then download the Font-icon package / not svg
Unpack the zip file in a folder called icons
Edit your theme.info file and add stylesheets[all][] = icons/flaticon.css
Inside the flaticon folder is an html file showing all icons and there css names.
I create a taxonomy and use it as a IPGV&M Location Differentiator
In the Special char CSS class I add the css icon name

Have a look here

You can select sleep to see sleep icon, and eat. like the image suggest

Have a look when you select drink
It want to use "Default location marker special character" () but looks like the unicode from flaticon is not called
<i class="fa"></i>
Could you make it so that you can choose to add a special character or css class

I have added a region with 3 terms (parent and 2 children) and it works great
What made me happy is I dont need to give the nodes the terms used in the region to make it work
Have a look when changing the regions, the text area exposes itself for a few milliseconds before hiding (my text area states the words "South Africa")
Switch between "Garden Route" and "Wine Route" to get the effect

Something also changed with the block "well" styling as the radio buttons are out of place. I am not worried about that now
The module "Slide with style" could be used to make the 3 radios a slider so you an slide from "here" "there" and "region"
I am pushing very hard to upgrade my D6 site within the next 10 days and your module will be on my front page
Some very exiting stuff, thanks

Edit: Placed the unicode in code brackets

What about the Icon API

This will give you a full user friendly interface. You can create a taxonomy and then add Icons to it, this can then be used by IPGV&M as a select list of available icons

It will also call the icons when needed.

Have a look here

I have placed your block in a dropdown. Top Right, it is also responcive if you slide the browser size, needs somm css work still.

A "well" is a bootstrap theme and my theme placed it around your block, no wonder you had no idea what i was on about

Going to test the new dev now

Hi Rik, it works.

I have removed the css in my theme and placed it under libraries.
How about specifying the following under font icons or marker options

.leaflet-tagged-marker i[class^="flaticon-"]:before, .leaflet-tagged-marker i[class*=" flaticon-"]:before {
    font-size: 16px;
    left: -11px;
    position: relative;
    top: -4px;
}

Enter your own
font-size:
left:
top:

I have discovered a BUG.
If you are loged in and try to change the region it will not work and resets to your location and set the region dropdown to -none-
logging out fix the problem and you can set your region.

libraries is working cool, thanks

Hi Rik,

Send me some examples or colors and retina versions of what you like and I make some custom markers in Photoshop.

I dont know any good web-designers as I cant afford them.

This is the markers I made for my site, I build it as a vector shape in Photoshop, its roughly based on the Dirt Game markers. I can give you those once as a start, maybe you have some gradients you like and i can make them that.

I can also give you the shape file so others can make there own gradients or colors.

My problem with marker color is that some markers is dark and some light, so the icon must be inverse. using a css class is perfect

O, what about the visitor marker? is there gonna be an option to make it a custom icon :)

Edit: here comes the icon marker

with this shape you can add tags in the marker

Hi Rik

Here is some markers I build. I made both 32 and 64 pix icons. I can improve on it.
I have pushed the markers to the edge, leaving no transparent border. This makes the markers a bit bigger.
The shape is also a bit different but I tried to stick to the exact shape.
I added a border but it could be a bit broader.

I sticked with your colors. Wanted to add "Wine Red", "Golden Beer" and "Dark Brandy" but that might just distract us.

About my marker icons out of place. It is your css that puts it there. Disabling your css part in the marker centers it. I will relook at this when you put the new icons in.

Thanks for the visitor icon.

Glad u like it.

The problem really sets in with dark markers, I am going to try and set more of a gradient.

I made a Photoshop shape file of the marker and I can basically make limitless combinations of colors. They all use the same format but the darker the color the more problems

Or are you talking about the faint little white spots on the border of the black (dark) markers

Yes I will start some new issues. This thread only features us and it has all our Africa Holiday Plans stuck in to it too. Hope you still coming

Like I stated, my 500 Rands ($50 a couple of months ago) is now around $39, due to the rate our currency is falling. Meaning if you come over whine will be nearly half price.

About your css. I think you made it to accommodate fontawsome. In its css file it gives spacing and padding to make it look nice next to words (in case you forget to put a space after your text) I also make use of Glyphicons that come bundled with bootstrap have a look here. There is icons everywere and I have noticed that each set of icons come with its own css spacing at default. Maybe reset all possible padding and margins to a default using padding:0px !important

But let me play with the new markers. I will go fishing this weekend and slap some fish-eye on my old laptop to see how does this retina display work. South Africa is rated the 23rd slowest internet country in the world, and the last time i checked there is quite a few countries, putting us very far behind.

The css problem is fixed. I have modified the original flaticon css file months ago. I have replaced it with the default flaticon css as it comes out of the box. Now it is placed center.

So, no need to worry about it.
It is simple to increase the font size in css now.

I am confused. What is the status of the original request? Where are the other issues where this is continued?
Maybe someone who did follow this should update the issue summary with a conclusion and links.