> ok, i see what your saying, but unfortunately i am straight shit when > it comes to writing custom javascript...
Google Maps makes a poor training ground, people tend to get in way over their heads with ideas that are difficult to implement before they've mastered the basics. > from what i see, that basically says, "if the user clicks the button > without entering an address,...or they enter an area that doesnt > contain a location within the given radius, echo 'results not found', > but if they do, find the locations" No, what searchLocations() does at the moment is get the content of ''addressInput' whether or not there was anything meaningful, geocode it. if the geocode fails, complain. if the geocode works, run searchLocationsNear() if searchLocationsNear() gets an empty result, display 'results not found'. > so i guess i would have to write something like "if the user enters an > address...search the address...but IF they enter a 4 digit numeric > value, search based on the 'branch_id' row, and if they enter nothing, > echo 'results not found' Kind of ; I'd be inclined to test first if the user entered a number (that's easy to define) as it is hard to test what an address looks like. It's pretty pointless geocoding a branch-id to see if fails, and it might give unexpected results if the geocoder matches it up to say a zipcode ... http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=javascript+test+string+for+numeric&meta=&aq=f&oq= If it's a number, do whatever you need to do for direct branch-id access. That might mean doing a redirect to that direct-branch page you were working on before. Or it might mean doing a psuedo-search by GDownloadUrl for a given branch-id and using it on the same page. That's your design decision. Make sure your page / php script does something sensible if its fed an invalid branch-id! Else if it's not a number, do your geocoding with pass or fail result exactly as before. Once it's working, you could enhance your numeric test to treat only 4- digit numbers as branches, in case an end user DOES enter a zipcode, I hadn't thought of that before. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
