Google Maps Text bubble incorrect

[Anonymous]

The text in the map bubble is displayed incorrectly. For example, it shows up as:

g>Michiga

U

io

g>

530 South State

A



Arbor, MI

Looking at the HTML, it is clear that tags got interrupted somehow:

<stro<br>g>Michiga<br> U<br>io<br></stro<br>

However, my formatting seems to be correct:

<strong>#_NAME</strong><br/>#_ADDRESS<br/>#_TOWN

Furthermore, the bubble displays perfectly fine if I deactivate the Extended plugin and reactivate the original modified Events Manager plugin.

You can see the issues I am having here: http://wmlwl.com/events

[Anonymous]

Shoot, sorry I placed this in the wrong forum 🙁

[Franky]

(I moved the post)

Everything seems correct to me …. maybe something with the “n” replacement has gone wrong and it replaces just the “n” with “<br >”.

Let me check the code.

[Franky]

Question: do you have magic_quotes_gpc activated in your php.ini file?

[Anonymous]

I’m on shared hosting so I don’t think I am able to check :-/

EDIT: Found it in PHPInfo. Yes, it is enabled. (magic_quotes_gpc On)

[Franky]

Hmmm … I tried it here with gpc on as well, no change. Could you check how it is stored in the database?

[Anonymous]

It’s fine in the database.

However, I identified the source of the problem. I deleted and reinstalled the plugin and the text showed up fine. When I went to the dbem_locations.php file in the plugin editor to make the text black and enlarge the map to 670px width, it resulted in the messed up formatting. Oddly, when I changed back the values that I had modified, the text bubble was still messed up.

Any idea why this is happening? I really do need to change the text to black and enlarge the map (which worked properly on the modified original plugin).

I am unable to use CSS to apply the change because you use div id’s, being dbem-location-map_# and there are no wildcards in CSS. It would be possible if you used a div class instead, or at least a combination. Perhaps something like <div class="dbem-location-map" id="dbem-location-map_15">.

EDIT: btw it messed up whether I change one or both of the attributes (i.e. color, size)

[Franky]

Well, I’m just finishing up implementing google maps api v3, and also took into account extra div’s for resizing the whole thing using CSS.

This will be in there:

.dbem-location-map {

background: green;

width: 400px;

height: 300px;

max-width: none;

background: none !important;

}

.dbem-location-balloon {

font-size: 85%;

height: 100px;

}

And I’ll include an extra CSS call so people are able to override the defaults in a seperate CSS file that doesn’t get overwritten with updates.

[Anonymous]

Alright, perfect! Appreciate the work you’re doing, this plugin really is amazing 🙂

[Franky]

Well, I think I’m about ready for release. If you want to testdrive, I can explain how to get the code if you want?

[Anonymous]

Sure!

[Franky]

Ok, get the trunk code from here via svn:

http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/events-manager-extended/trunk/

in the readme.txt file, search for “myown.css” for howto override the default css

It also uses google maps api v3, so no more IE6 support …

Franky

[Anonymous]

Awesome, works great!

EDIT: noticed that the text in the bubbles is a lot smaller than before, and no longer takes on the attributes I applied in the settings (namely <strong>)

[Franky]

Hmm .. can you give an example of that? It is smaller because the css tells the balloon text size to be at 85%, because I want to avoid scrollbars and google api v3 is quite tricky with those. You can always try to change it if you want (see .dbem-location-balloon in events_manager.css)

[Franky]

btw: I just tried <strong> in my balloon format settings, and they are accepted without problems. Maybe you override these with your CSS?

[Anonymous]

Ahh yeah it was the text size. The text looked like it was not bold due to the smaller size. I changed it back to 100% and it looks normal.

[Franky]

So, for the rest this seems ok to you? Then I can maybe go live with this release (once I removed the GMAP API Key comments, since this is no longer needed now)

[Anonymous]

Yeah, haven’t noticed any oddities.

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