I am not sure if I am in the right place or not. If I am not, somebody please direct me to the right place.
I am writing a php-based website that will take people's addresses, find the distance between the two addresses, and then go on to use that number in my program. (I am developing the site on my Windows computer, with Apache installed, along with php and mysql. It will then be hosted on some commercial host, I assume using a unix-based server.) Apparently I can use Google to get these distances and am thrilled that this service is freely available. My problem is not knowing quite how to get started. I am a new web developer and have finally gotten pretty familiar with php and sql/mysql. I have not learned javascript yet. I have a couple of “smaller” web sites up, but this one is much more complicated than what I have done so far. Specifically I need to do two things: 1. Get the exact address/location that Google can use to calcuclate the distances (I believe this is referred to as geocoding) and store that info in my database. I only need to do this once for each address/person (I assume). 2. I then need to go to Google with this info to calculate the distances between lots of (all of?) the different addresses on a repeating basis. My problem is that, as I said, I am rather a novice at all this. I read the Google pages about Maplpets, Javascript API's, Flash API's, etc., and it is all very confusing to me. If someone could just tell me direction I need to take to do this (do I need to learn javascript? Can I access Google Maps data directly from my php script?, am I using "mapplets"? etc.), then I can at least know what it is I need to research and learn so that I can do this. (Of course, any helpful links to info that you wish to provide would also be appreciated.) I greatly appreciate any help you can offer. Thanks. -- 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.
