On Dec 2, 2:48 am, brian <[email protected]> wrote: > can someone point to a simple working example of moving icons on a > google map while reading the data from a file. > > at the risk of repeating.....I presently take the data from a MYSQL > database and use PHP to extract the data and pass it to the script/web > page. > > to update the data i refesh the page. I can write the current data to a > file so that is not an issue.
You don't need to write a physical file on the server. You can already use PHP to extract the data and pass it to the webpage: if you have a PHP script which serves XML [look at the "header" command in PHP] then you can use a Javascript setInterval() which calls GDownloadUrl to download that data. In processing the data, remove any previous marker and add a new one at the new location. Or simply use setLatLng to move an existing marker. Although I would suggest XML as there are plenty of examples of dealing with that, JSON is also possible. But I don't know of anything already written which puts all that into practice. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API V2" 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.
