A none CI implementation of BIOINSTALL's CodeIgniter library.
I found this library to be incredibly useful when I was working in CodeIgniter. However a little bit of work needed to be done to use it in a Laravel project. I can't take any of the credit for the actual "heavy lifting" going on in the class.
- Include the package in your composer.json file
"appitventures/phpgmaps": "dev-master", - Add
'Appitventures\Phpgmaps\PhpgmapsServiceProvider',to app.config - Add
'Gmaps' => 'Appitventures\Phpgmaps\Facades\Phpgmaps',to your facade list
The following code will prompt the user for access to their geolocation and then creates a map centered on their lat/lng
Route::get('/', function(){
$config = array();
$config['center'] = 'auto';
$config['onboundschanged'] = 'if (!centreGot) {
var mapCentre = map.getCenter();
marker_0.setOptions({
position: new google.maps.LatLng(mapCentre.lat(), mapCentre.lng())
});
}
centreGot = true;';
Gmaps::initialize($config);
// set up the marker ready for positioning
// once we know the users location
$marker = array();
Gmaps::add_marker($marker);
$map = Gmaps::create_map();
echo "<html><head>".$map['js']."</head><body>".$map['html']."</body></html>";
});
BIOINSTALL has a great website showing how to do all the things with the class. No reason to reinvent the wheel, so here it is. The only thing to note is that $this->googlemaps is now Gmaps::.