Title: Coding question for dynamic Gmap Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Coding question for dynamic Gmap * [LK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lk/) * (@lk) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-question-for-dynamic-gmap/) * Our agency provides a directory of resources (i.e., shelters and foodshelves) around the state for our clients. Each resource is recorded as a post in a unique category, and each resource has custom fields called “address”, “city”, “state”, and “zip”. * We would like to create a Google map that automatically populates the map by pulling the address info from the resource posts. * Of the Gmap plugins available, it seemed like the Phoogle Maps plugin would be easiest to modify for this purpose ([http://www.chrisandabigail.com/](http://www.chrisandabigail.com/)). * This plugin relies on php execution within posts, and we got it to work by manually adding addresses in this format: * `` * It seems like we should be able to pull in the addesses from the post custom fields, so that we won’t have to update the map every time we add a resource post. We installed the Get Custom Fields plugin from CF to assist. * Here’s the statement we came up with thus far: * `< ?php $my_query = new WP_Query('cat=6'); ?>` * < ?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?> * addAddress("< ?php echo c2c_get_custom('address'); ?>, < ?php echo c2c_get_custom(' city'); ?>, < ?php echo c2c_get_custom('state'); ?>, < ?php echo c2c_get_custom(' zip'); ?> " ,"< ?php the_title(); ?>"); * < ?php endwhile; ?> * showMap(); * This will print out the [ addAddress(“122 Main St, City, State, 54321”); showMap();], but it won’t execute the “addAddress” and “showMap” functions. * Any ideas on how to wrap the statment we’ve written thus far with another php statment to trigger the map? * Thanks in advance for any suggestions! Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) * [jmanfivek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmanfivek/) * (@jmanfivek) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-question-for-dynamic-gmap/#post-356449) * I’m having the exact same problem, except that I’m not trying to trigger the “ addAddress” function with a string of meta values but simply my post’s title which is always in the format of “City, State”. * From what I can tell, the plugin looks like it calculates the geo coordinates using this site: [http://api.local.yahoo.com/MapsService/V1/geocode?appid=YahooDemo&location=](http://api.local.yahoo.com/MapsService/V1/geocode?appid=YahooDemo&location=) * And that site has no problems when I manually type in “City, State”. * For some reason Phoogle isn’t passing along the correct addAddress info. It must have something to do with the code inside the addAddress function but I’m not a coder so I have no idea. 🙁 * Thread Starter [LK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lk/) * (@lk) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-question-for-dynamic-gmap/#post-356450) * you’ll need to make one change to the plugin file that wasn’t in the instructions. * go to yahoo and get your own appid for the Maps Service api for your site (it’s free), and then replace “YahooDemo” with your api in that string. * [drinkingblue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drinkingblue/) * (@drinkingblue) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-question-for-dynamic-gmap/#post-356499) * its my first time using this, do you have some insturction on how to get it working with yahoo ? I don’t see anywhere like on google to get a code to use. * Thread Starter [LK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lk/) * (@lk) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-question-for-dynamic-gmap/#post-356500) * I’m not the author of this plugin, but I’ve found it very helpful for clients who prefer to add street addresses instead of geocoding coordinates. * Just so we’re on the same page: this plugin only uses Yahoo for translating street addresses to geocode coordinates, and then the plugin passes the geocode coordinates to Google Maps. As far as I can tell, the plugin only shows maps in Google Maps— not Yahoo Maps. * To get the Yahoo geocoding function working: * Go to [http://api.search.yahoo.com/webservices/register_application](http://api.search.yahoo.com/webservices/register_application) and log in (if you don’t already have a Yahoo account, create one). You’ll be taken to a screen prompting you to choose an Application ID. I usually use my site name. Then, go back to the phoogle plugin file and replace “YahooDemo” with your new Applicatio ID. That’s it. * [drinkingblue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drinkingblue/) * (@drinkingblue) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-question-for-dynamic-gmap/#post-356501) * Thanks LK I updated that part and I think it is working. I was getting an error about yahoo maps not working. * Im using Exec-PHP 3.0, Phoogle Maps 2.0, WordPress 2.0.4 on Goddays free hosting. Would it have something to do with the hosting ? * I get this error * Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/content/M/i/n/Miniphoto/ html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/exec-php/exec-php.php(75) : eval()’d code on line 1 * from this post * * Thread Starter [LK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lk/) * (@lk) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-question-for-dynamic-gmap/#post-356502) * Did you copy that line directly from the plugin page to your write screen? I seem to remember that the plugin page had stylized quotation marks that don’t play well. Try deleting and retyping the two quotation marks. * You want them to look like this: “ * And not like these: “ or ″ * [drinkingblue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drinkingblue/) * (@drinkingblue) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-question-for-dynamic-gmap/#post-356503) * Thanks again for your help, thats solves that problem, I don’t get any errors now. * But all I get is a blank post now. any ideas on what I’m doing wrong now ? * Thread Starter [LK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lk/) * (@lk) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-question-for-dynamic-gmap/#post-356504) * Could you share a link please? * [drinkingblue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drinkingblue/) * (@drinkingblue) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-question-for-dynamic-gmap/#post-356505) * sorry… [http://www.drinkingblue.com](http://www.drinkingblue.com) * Thread Starter [LK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lk/) * (@lk) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-question-for-dynamic-gmap/#post-356506) * It looks like it knows that there should be a map there, it just doesn’t get created. * The error message regarding file_get_contents in “Test 3” would suggest that your host is running an older version of PHP. Or, it could just be that you only had a street address and no city/state/zip address in the addAddress line for“ Test 3”. * Could you please create a new post called “Test LK”, and use the example addAddress line from the plugin page (the one you quoted above)? * Also, could you find out what version of PHP your host is running? And, are you running any other plugins? * [drinkingblue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drinkingblue/) * (@drinkingblue) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-question-for-dynamic-gmap/#post-356507) * Not sure how to tell but I found a site that said to put ‘ ‘ as php.info on the site and go to it and it says 4.3.11 at the top * These are the plugins that I have activated Exec-PHP 3.0 Phoogle Maps 2.0 List Manager 1.9 Event Calendar 3.1._rc3 * I was getting the same effect when i only had the first 2 installed. I have been reading that godaddy has caused problems with wordpress and things but The free hosting came with the .com so I thought I would try it. * thanks again for all your help * Thread Starter [LK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lk/) * (@lk) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-question-for-dynamic-gmap/#post-356508) * The plugin should automatically put some code into your footer to enable the Google map. It doesn’t look like your pages have this code. * Could you check to see if your theme files (usually footer.php) to see if it has this line: * `` * If not, add it at the bottom right above the `` line. * [drinkingblue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drinkingblue/) * (@drinkingblue) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-question-for-dynamic-gmap/#post-356509) * Thanks … the theme I had didn’t have that so I went back to the default and it worked but that wasn’t included so I added * * to the end of the them footer and it works. 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