ok, i think i understand what your saying...im gonna give that a shot,
but unfortunately i have to redo my whole db and find all the
latitudes and longitutdes again, may take a few days... i will get
back to you and i really appreciate your assistance, once i get this
db reset up i will probly need another push in the right direction,
thanks to you and everyone else that responded to my posts it is very
greatly appreciated. If google needs a spokesperson, i will wear a
google hat shoes short, anything you want, i f***ing love google,
google makes the world literally easier to livein. Thanks

On Jul 23, 3:47 pm, Andrew Leach <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Jul 23, 8:27 pm, opusrandy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > What we WANT it to do...is we want to set
> > up a static page with a list of branches for a particular state, and
> > then somehow pass the url when the branch name is clicked, so that the
> > locator I currenltly have grabs only the branch_id you had clicked on.
>
> OK... you currently have
>   $center_lat = $_GET["lat"];
>   $center_lng = $_GET["lng"];
>   $radius = $_GET["radius"];
> which take those parameters from the url. Add another one for "name"
> since you already have that in your database -- or create an id column
> in your database and add such a line for "branch_id".
>
> Then get your code to decide what to do based on whether it gets a
> branch_id or not:
>   if ($branch_id) {
>     $query = sprintf("SELECT address, name, lat, lng,
>     0 as distance FROM markers WHERE branch_id='%s'",
>     mysql_real_escape_string($branch_id)); }
>   else {
>     // do your existing query
>     }
>
> Then carry on as before. Note that I've specified retrieving a column
> called "distance" with a fixed value of zero, just so that any
> subsequent code will find something there.
>
> The while loop which iterates through the result set should only ever
> find one row retrieved with a particular branch_id, but even if there
> are more for some reason, the code won't fail: it will simply show
> them all.
>
> As you say, you will need some identifier for each store in your
> database. It could be the existing name, or a store number, or maybe
> even the zipcode if you have only one or two per zipcode. Up to you.
>
> Andrew
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