google maps

Hello!
I need your help to set the google map functionality. I followed all the instructions and honestly I don’t know I can’t put this working.
I’ve downloaded and installed the google map of http://modxcms.com/GoogleMap-658.html
Then I created the snippet and I’m using this call:
[!GoogleMap? &key=`ABQIAAAALfc6POhSDFWs44KZR4ElzRS33jlEExAbzfYNOEMouCQbHL7qZhSKrHFAvlSKLDvR8o3-XbpsVjTsQg` &title=`My Office` &address=`101 My Road` &width=`300` &height=`300`!]

I don’t get nothing as output:...what might be wrong?!

Thks,
Fanan

Hi Fanan,
take a look at bottom map on my website: http://www.spotkg.com/index.php?q=95.html

Here is solution:
On landing page put call to google snippet (I have used GoogleMapMarker):

[[GoogleMapMarker? &apiKey=`your_API_key` &startID=`ID_of_the_container_document_where_you_will_put_cities_with_coordinates` &mapType=`hybrid` &centerPos=`43.755225,21.417847` &defaultZoom=`2` &tpl=`map`]]

In my case, &startID is 96 ( as you can see in URL, 95 is ID of the document where the snippet is).

Document ID 96 is parent for child documents with all cities I need, like:
96 -
- Kragujevac (97)
- Belgrade (98)
- Zagreb (99)
- Inglostadt (100)
...
...

then, create chunk ’map’ for &tpl like mine:
<div id="map" style="float:left; width: 550px; height: 350px; clear: both;’">Loading map...</div>
<div id="maplinks" style=" width: 550px; float:left; margin-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; display: block; height: 350px; overflow: auto;"></div>

This is a placeholders for map and for pinpoints.

Then, create child documents for every pinpoint you want. Example:

Under document ID 95 in my case, I have about 10 documents (kragujevac, belgrade, zagreb, inglostadt,...)
Every document has it’s own:

Title: Name of the city
Long title: Name of the city
Description: coordinates of the city, like 44.021972,20.908619
Document content: what will be on the screen when you hover mouse over the city on the map.

Hope this helps..
Be free to ask additional questions...

With regards,
Ivan Mandic
Serbia

Hi imandic!
Thank you very much for your help!
Actually I’m not still able to put a marker on my map...don’t know why because I’m following all the indications...but the rest it’s done!
I have Ditto installed and I created all the documents as described ... :-s

Thks again,
Fanan

Do you have PHx support installed?

* 1. Create a snippet "phx:slashandstrip" with this content:
* return addcslashes(preg_replace("~([\n\r\t\s]+)~"," ",$output), "’");

@fanan_camane

Hi, I’m the author of GoogleMap, the original snippet you were trying to use. GoogleMap changed between version 1.2 and version 1.3 to use a differEnt syntax in the parameters - to allow for multiple maps per page. Make sure you download the latest version. Then your call would now look something like this:

Hi imandic, hi therebechips!!
Thank you very much for your replies.
For imandic: since I unpublish the document of the city I got the marker in the map. Then it was a question of defining the content of the marker.
Thks for your tip.

For therebechips: I wasn’t aware of that changes. I searched a lot for info about the usage but it was very scarce (maybe my bad search).
I couldn’t find it in the wiki of modx. Nevertheless thks for the input. I’m sure that it will be useful in a near future.

Thks,
Fanan