Just another quick question: Using this method, is it possible to put in the lat/long in the "to:" or "from:" in the code? Not everything on campus has an address, so that's how we're pinpointing other locations.
On Jan 8, 9:20 am, "warden [Andrew Leach - Maps API Guru]" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 8, 2:13 pm, Shadman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I will test it with real values and see if it works later today. > > However, what I meant about the <? ?> tags is that they don't change > > their coloration when they are used within the <script> tags for the > > api. They change everywhere else because it is recognized as PHP, but > > for some reason they don't in the code for the API. > > Ah. Misread that. I suspect that your editor is (slightly) confused by > having the tags inside <script>. > > > Is <? = equivalent > > to <? echo? I didn't quite understand what you meant. > > NO! <?= is equivalent to <? echo. Note the lack of a space in the > shorthand version. Seehttp://us.php.net/echo > > > I was also wondering if the method I'm using (which I got from > >http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/services.html#Returnin...) > > is the right way to go about this. Is there a better or more correct > > way of going about getting data from a SQL database, sending it to > > Google and having the directions returned? There seems to be the XML > > parsing and sending, but this seems like it should work too. > > I'm just not sure which method to go about. > > What you are currently doing is constructing a directions call to send > to the client so that it can send it on to Google. There's nothing > particularly wrong with that, and it does mean that the request is > associated with the client IP address, not your server address. > > > Also, I'll post a link later today, > > there are just some issues with the server right now. Thanks for the > > help Andrew, I really appreciate it. And yea we are at Harvard. Its > > our freshman year computer science project. > > Thanks for confirming that. It does mean that you won't be given > solutions but pointed in the direction (pun not intended) of suitable > resources to help. > > Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
