Custom markers dir appears useless after update

I can confirm this behavior. #2 worked for me!

Wow, this was a huge issue for us and #2 fixes it. Thank you so much!

I also confirm this behavior, which was a huge issue for us as well (focus-grabbing JS alerts and non-functional maps everywhere). The patch in #2 fixes it.

I encountered this issue as well after updating to v. 7.x-2.11 and yeah, it was really confusing that the path in the custom markers field was not being used all of a sudden.

Since I have the Libraries module installed I chose to move my custom gmap-marker folder to sites/libraries/gmap_markers and it is now being registered automatically in gmap_markerinfo.inc by the code

  if (module_exists('libraries')) {
    $markercustomdir = libraries_get_path('gmap_markers');
    if ($markercustomdir) {
      $markerdirs[] = $markercustomdir;
    }
  }

A useful strategy if you don't want to patch the module and have the Libraries module on your site.

I can confirm this patch works for me, too. Looking forward to it being committed to the module. Thanks.

Patch in comment #2 works, thanks.

EDIT: as per comment #8, putting gmap_markers folder in sites/all/libraries is far more efficient than patching.

Heya,
I updated patch #2 for code in gmap_markerinfo.inc to appear as:

* We just scan the directory set in the the 'gmap_markerfiles' variable.
 */
function gmap_gmap_markerfiles_info() {
  $markerdirs = variable_get('gmap_markerfiles', array(drupal_get_path('module', 'gmap') . '/markers'));
   $markercustomdir = variable_get('gmap_marker_custom_dir', NULL);
    if ($markercustomdir) {
     $markerdirs[] = $markercustomdir;
    }

  if (module_exists('libraries')) {

I then refreshed cache all, and regenerated map markers.
The markders are still absent.

Any suggestions as to what else I may to do, or did wrong to resurrect the customer markers please?

Has anyone running 7.x-2.11 been able to get custom markers to display on a map? We had custom markers working fine running 7.x-2.9, but after updating we cannot get our custom marker images to load (only seeing default fallback markers).

We have placed the INI file and referenced marker PNG images at: sites/libraries/gmap_markers...and we can access the sites/default/files/js/gmap_markers.js file no problem...we've also regenerated markers and cleared caches (both Drupal and local).

Still no luck...any further ideas? Thanks everyone in advance.

Following up on my comment above, we were able to get our custom markers to display with this patch (https://www.drupal.org/node/2698109) -- just an FYI to others who may be experiencing issues getting marker images to display using a custom marker field.

under performance, not aggregating js files fixed the issue for us - on 2.9yes works for 2.11 thanks

I've spend hours debugging this issue. Please commit the patch in #2.

Bumping this to critical since 7.x-2.11 breaks all sites with custom markers.

As per comment #8, putting gmap_markers folder in sites/all/libraries makes patch useless.
Maybe the documentation should be more precise on that point.

The patch isn't useless, because the broken custom markers setting still exists.

If the setting isn't going to be restored, it should be removed so that people don't keep hitting the problem...

I had to revert the site as I couldn't getting the custom icons working and afford the site to be in downtime.
Looking forward to seeing this fab module updated and hearing back from the community the custom_icons are working as expected.

The following has worked for me:

1. Keep note of your current "Custom markers path" setting in the gmap settings page
2. Replace the gmap module folder with the 7.x-2.11 version
3. Patch the corresponding file with the patch of this thread
4. Run db updates (update.php or drush updatedb)
5. Navigate to the gmap settings, re-enter your Custom markers path and save
6. Regenerate markers
7. Clear Drupal cache

As mentioned in #4 during the update the Custom markers path variable is getting deleted. The issue that caused this seems to be https://www.drupal.org/node/667272 which currently has the status "Needs work".

I believe the current patch should be used as a workaround and the issue should be correctly solved in the inital issue https://www.drupal.org/node/667272

Why don't we remove the offending variable_del from the update and release a 2.12 version with this patch included? That way people have an update path from 2.10 to 2.12 without running into issues with a custom marker dir.

#2 is in
tnx