Comments on: Using Yahoo Geocode API and Google Maps

By: ethan

ethan — Wed, 03 May 2006 18:33:05 +0000

nevermind, i got it

By: ethan

ethan — Wed, 03 May 2006 18:24:11 +0000

and the arrow in the error does point to the xml declaration

By: ethan

ethan — Wed, 03 May 2006 18:22:24 +0000

im attempting to use your script, but i’m having a bit of a problem. when i add the alert i get “ResultSet[0] has no properties.” when i change the php file to type text/plain and type the url in directly, the xml object looks fine. when i do this same thing with type text/xml i get “XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity.” any ideas?

thanks

By: Ashwini

Ashwini — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:11:03 +0000

I have added the alert(e) before the fail message in code.
Its is giving me.
[object Error]

By: Michael Young

Michael Young — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:28:31 +0000

Hi Ashwini,

Try adding an alert call to print out the exception in the javascript of index.html (before the â€œfailed to retrieve and parser geo resultsâ€ message). e.g.:

} catch(e) {
alert(e);
status.innerHTML = â€œFailed to retrieve and parse geo results!â€;
}

The alert should give you an idea of what the problem is.

Let me know…

By: Ashwini

Ashwini — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:59:07 +0000

Hello,

I have added this code in my website as per your instruction but when i enter the state city and address in the for it is giving me error
“Failed to retrieve and parse geo results!”.

When i explicitly run geo_lookup.php page with passing paramenters to it that page shows me the xml data

Can youlz help me.

By: Lysle

Lysle — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:11:43 +0000

hah i got it working… so stupid. It was just because my browser wasnt refreshing the page properly. I was pressing refresh (and it acted like it refreshed) but I dunno. Its done that before to me, no clue why.

By: Lysle

Lysle — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:59:27 +0000

This is an awesome script! It is exactly what I’m looking for… But I keep getting an error. When I goto geo_lookup.php?street=350%20Fifth%20Ave&city=New%20York&state=NY I get:

The XML page cannot be displayed. Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet.

Invalid at the top level of the document. Error processing resource ‘http://xanthians.com/geo_lookup.php?street=350%20Fifth…

I am using PHP4, so I switched those comment tags around already. I dont know anything about XML, I am a PHP guy, so this is all leaving me pretty clueless.

By: Michael Young

Michael Young — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:17:52 +0000

You’re welcome!

I’m using the CodeHighlight plugin for WordPress to handle the syntax highlighting. Here is a link to it:

http://www.chroder.com/archives/2005/04/16/wordpress-codehighlight-plugin/

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:55:46 +0000

That makes sense, Lycos throws in a lot of extra junk to put those banners on there. I’m sure that’s it, I’ll try it on another site. Thanks!

BTW, how did you get that php syntax highlighting for your php code, is that just part WordPress? I see it’s using CSS to do so, but I wasn’t sure if that is hard coded or automatic