There is a new version of Phoogle Maps available, and I hope that you’ll see that I’ve listened to you. Several people have emailed me or posted comments here concerning new features that they would like to have added. I do believe I’ve added them all.
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Google Maps APIs are great, but you need to have longitude/latitude data of locations that you want to display. That’s the problem for me and for many others. Well in order to fix that I created what I call Phoogle Maps.
Phoogle (pronounced like foogle) Maps is a PHP class that uses the nusoap libraries to connect to the geocoder.us service to create an array that can be passed to the Google Maps API. What does this mean? It’s a PHP script that can map whatever address you pass it. The address can be from a database or hardcoded.
Pulling in $_POST or $_GET variables can be quite a pain sometimes, enter a handy built-in PHP function: extract()
One of the things that I find myself doing most often when creating a web app or even just a website using PHP/MySQL is formatting dates to the format that I want.
It’s not hard to do but it gets annoying and repetative very quickly
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