Sunday, March 5. 2006
Get your geo plugin here
PHP 5, JSON from pecl cvs, Map Tile API
and the Yui Connection Manager.
Toss them in a bag and shake and you get something like this. Enter a city name, or even a
pseudo-name like Philly or SFO and hit return. Each time you enter a new name you will get a map tile for that city.
It's not all that fancy, but it sure is easy to do:
33 lines total which includes about 6 lines of PHP which consists mostly of building the URL to the map tile service. Then the Javascript which has a callback function to read the form values and make the backend GET request and a simple function to take the JSON response and add the map tile to the document. And finally the actual HTML form.
With a slight tweak you can change it to make a nice geocode lookup field.
So, fire up your text editors and start writing some plugins for blog and forum packages and perhaps image gallery applications as well.
It's not all that fancy, but it sure is easy to do:
33 lines total which includes about 6 lines of PHP which consists mostly of building the URL to the map tile service. Then the Javascript which has a callback function to read the form values and make the backend GET request and a simple function to take the JSON response and add the map tile to the document. And finally the actual HTML form.
With a slight tweak you can change it to make a nice geocode lookup field.
So, fire up your text editors and start writing some plugins for blog and forum packages and perhaps image gallery applications as well.
Why a toys page?
I love geeky toys and people are always asking me about them. So this page is where I keep track of the gadgets that interest me.
