Hello All,
I'm looking for some Google Maps guidance.
I have a search results page written in PHP, receiving results from
MySQL. Each result has an address and there is a instance of Google
Maps on the page.
I originally had someone else help me with the implementation of the
maps. He made it so that the actual map javascript file was a php
extension (instead of .js) so that he could use php to read from the
session and basically add a "location1 = new Location("address",
"description");" and repeat for each result.
I believe that it's a very crappy way of loading the map points and
i'm sure there is a much better way that I can do this directly from
the results page code through AJAX or something so as the page renders
each result it adds a marker to the map or maintains all the marker
data in a variable and loads them all at the same time once the page
is loaded.
I also would like to take this opportunity to get to know how Google
Maps works so that I won't be such a novice and be able to understand
the API so I can use it to make adjustments to the map.
I am fairly proficient in PHP maybe on a scale of 1-10 i'd give myself
a 7. I have also had to use Prototype to perform AJAX actions either
on the click of a link or change of a select box. I am not however
very good with that on a scale of 1-10 I might rate myself a 1 or 2
since I got an example from the net and implemented it to my needs and
it's worked perfectly and has not required that I learn more about
prototype functionality.
Maybe someone can point me in the right direction.
I would like to learn to do the following (hopefully all through AJAX
without re-loading the page):
Load GoogleMaps
Add Markers
Change Marker style / appearance
Load several instances of GoogleMaps on a page (as an example each
result would have it's own map)
I truly appreciate any help you guys/gals can provide for me!
Thanks in advance!
Nick
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