[PHP] open source zip code geographical drill down

2006-11-03 Thread Ben Liu
I'm trying to build some functionality commonly seen on the web where a user enters a zip code and they are provided with a listing of business or entity locations sorted by geographical distance. I've got a client with a distributor network and I need to create something like this for them. They

Re: [PHP] open source zip code geographical drill down

2006-11-03 Thread Leonard Burton
Hi Ben, I'm trying to build some functionality commonly seen on the web where a user enters a zip code and they are provided with a listing of business or entity locations sorted by geographical distance. I came up with a script to where it will do this, however, the big question is how many

Re: [PHP] open source zip code geographical drill down

2006-11-03 Thread Richard Lynch
On Fri, November 3, 2006 9:00 am, Ben Liu wrote: I'm trying to build some functionality commonly seen on the web where a user enters a zip code and they are provided with a listing of business or entity locations sorted by geographical distance. I've got a client with a distributor network and

RE: [PHP] open source zip code geographical drill down

2006-11-03 Thread Daevid Vincent
If you've got several more hours to spare, providing a Google map as an alternative is also quite do-able, though not as quick-n-easy as you have to walk the XML output in Javascript by hand instead of letting a built-in function do it for you. Then you just need to spend a day or two