Hello folk,

Please, I need some help, I am stuck on how to create, a street adress link to google-map from my classified ads web site.

I want my web-site to have the ability to make all street field link to google map, when a user click on the link.

You can see an example of what i mean below:

http://www.loquo.com/pe/housing/room...uilar/10555591


http://www.sitioanuncios.com/espana/...E_EMBARGO.html

Try the google map api...

I'm pretty sure you can feed it just about anything and it will figure out where it's suposed to be on the map.

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/

If you just want to link to the map, then you don't need to stress on the API stuff. Just use

http://maps.google.com/?q=

and put the address after the = sign (be sure to urlencode the URL [Google it to get info])

For example, the White House:

http://maps.google.com/?q=1600+Penns...+Washington+DC

Hello JeremyMiller,

Thanks for responding to my post.

The problem i am having is how to
Automatically url encode the street adress fields and google it to get google info.


I dont know how to do it, will be very glad with some more explanation

In php, try urlencode()

Hello Miller,

After spending several hours, this is what i got,
The code is working but, it glues the street and city to gether when i click " view map"

Is there any way for me to insert space between street and city for the map to be accurate?

PLEASE, SEE IF THERE IS A BETTER WAY I CAN CODE IT



$l = "http://maps.google.es/maps?hl=es&f=l&q=".urlencode($row['street']) .urlencode($row['city']) ;

$r= $row['street'] ;

echo "<a target=_blank href=$l> $r </a> ";

When posting PHP code, be sure to use the [php] tag so that it gets marked up nicely.

This will help:

PHP Code:

$l = "http://maps.google.es/maps?hl=es&f=l&q=".urlencode($row['street']).', '.urlencode($row['city']) ;

echo '<a target="_blank" href="',$l,'" > View  Map  </a> '; 


urlencode() and stripslashes() are my best friend

Hello miller,

Thank you very much for helping me out, I don't know with what i should thank you with, cause you have been of great help to me.

I have implemented the code into my classified ads site.
And it working perfectly all right.


Thanks again, you are the best.

Glad to help. Talkupation is always appreciated.