On Jun 28, 6:07 pm, oedipa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi- > > I did spend a few hours researching this before posting here. Tried a > few suggestions out there (like calling getElements instead of > documentElement) and so on... Nothing's worked. It's a weird error. > Or maybe it's obvious and I'm too tired to see it. > > A few months ago I created a store locator based on Google's code and > tutorial that they've had online for a little while now. It seems > that recently, the client has noticed the searches have stopped > working consistently. They return intermittent results. From a > search on Roanoke, for instance, we got several different result > sets. This ONLY happens with IE. Naturally, the other browsers were > fine and the search works as expected. > > The XML output looks valid and I ran it through an online validator > (below is the link) that confirms this: > http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffacilitylocator.vhca.o...
It is valid, but it is empty... <?xml version="1.0"?> <markers/> If I make the search radius bigger: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffacilitylocator.vhca.org%2Fphpadv_genxml.php%3Flat%3D37%26lng%3D78%26radius%3D10000&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&ss=1&outline=1&group=1&No200=1&verbose=1&st=1&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.781 It is not valid. -- Larry > > The Map Locator is found here: > > http://facilitylocator.vhca.org/ > > A view-source will reveal the code at work there. Nothing > special...all leveraged off of Google's example (v2 API). > > The really weird part about all this is, it only happens with IE (7 > and 8 from what we can see) and it happens intermittently. However, > it does consistently fail with searches on Roanoke, VA (I'm sure there > are others). Some cities, it behaves just fine. This is a recent > development. I half suspected that something in the database stored > info (which gets updated via a form) was breaking it, but the > validator seems to think it's all good and I can't see anything off > hand... > > If you just type Roanoke into the map search (not the alpha search > above it), you'll see what I mean. you might get a result set for > Roanoke the first time, but try changing the radius. It won't change > the result set and then it errors every time with this msg. Or > sometimes, it won't return anything at all: > > Webpage error details > User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/ > 4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR > 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; MDDR; Tablet PC 2.0; .NET4.0C) > Timestamp: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:54:41 UTC > Message: 'documentElement' is null or not an object > Line: 87 > Char: 8 > Code: 0 > URI:http://facilitylocator.vhca.org/ > > Here's some of the backend code (again this is from Google with my > parameters entered). I did add the utf encoding just in case it was > that...: > > // Opens a connection to a mySQL server > $connection=mysql_connect (localhost, $username, $password); > $db_selected = mysql_select_db($database, $connection); > $result = mysql_query($query); > if (!$result) { > die("Invalid query: " . mysql_error());} > > header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); > // Iterate through the rows, adding XML nodes for each > while ($row = @mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){ > $node = $dom->createElement("marker"); > $newnode = $parnode->appendChild($node); > $newnode->setAttribute("ID", $row['ID']); > $newnode->setAttribute("Company", $row['Company']); > $newnode->setAttribute("Address", $row['Address']); > $newnode->setAttribute("City", $row['City']); > $newnode->setAttribute("State", $row['State']); > $newnode->setAttribute("Zip", $row['Zip']); > $newnode->setAttribute("distance", $row['distance']); > $newnode->setAttribute("Lat", $row['Lat']); > $newnode->setAttribute("Lng", $row['Lng']);} > > //create XML for the map to read. Done! > echo $dom->saveXML(); > > Any help or insight would be very much appreciated!!!!!! -- 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.
