The Bakery Everything CakePHP

I found CakePHP to be helpful with a lot of things and I loved the fact that anyone can reuse any classes made in PHP using 'vendors' in CakePHP. We recently wrote a CakePHP helper for generating map in CakePHP application.

The helper uses Google Maps API V2 class (http://www.phpinsider.com/php/code/GoogleMapAPI/) from phpinsider.com.

To begin with, just download the class and place them inside 'vendors' folder.

Here's the code for the helper: map.php
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<?php
class MapHelper extends Helper
{

    var $helpers = array('Html');

    function displaymap($locations=false,$width=500,$height=500)
    {
        vendor('GoogleMapAPI.class');
        $map = new GoogleMapAPI('map');
        if($locations)
        foreach($locations as $location)
        {
            $map->addMarkerByAddress( $location['address'],strip_tags($location['title']), $location['title']);  //adds address to showup in Map
        }
        else
        {
            $map->setCenterCoords(-96.67,40.8279);   // if no locations are passed in function, then focus on US
            $map->setZoomLevel(3);
        }

        $map->setWidth($width);
        $map->setHeight($height);
        $map_content=$map->getHeaderJS().$map->getMapJS().$map->getMap();
        return $this->output($map_content);
    }
}
?>

Here's the code for the view (index.thtml in my case): index.thtml
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<? php
// initialization of $my_locations array to show in map - you can do this in your controller.
$my_locations=array();
$my_locations[1]['address']='621 N 48th St # 6 Lincoln NE 68502';
$my_locations[1]['title']='PJ Pizza';

$my_locations[2]['address']='826 P St Lincoln NE 68502';
$my_locations[2]['title']='<b>PJ Pizza</b>';

echo $map->displaymap($my_locations,500,500); ?>
<script type="text/javascript">onLoad();</script>

Author: Abhimanyu Grover
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