BRAD'S MAPPY EMAIL SIGNUP

I wanted a quick and easy way to ask website visitors for their email addresses and locations. This does that via Google Maps. You can see an example of it in action at: http://www.bradsucks.net/live/

SCRIPT REQUIREMENTS

jQuery
PHP 4+
MySQL

INSTALLATION

Get a Google Maps API key: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html
Fill out the variables in map-config.php
Create the map-table.sql table
Upload the files to your web host
Visit index.php for an example implementation

You can then include the map selector in any PHP page:

<? include "map-selector.php"; ?>

EXTRAS

- You can specify $mapButtonText before including map-selector.php:

$mapButtonText = "add me"; // changes the submit button text to "add me";

- If your URL has an email variable in it, the email input box will not be displayed but that email will be passed through. Example:

http://www.yourhost.com/map/index.php?email=user@email.com

In this instance only a submit button will be displayed beneath the map, but user@email.com address will be saved along with the location.

CAVEATS

There's no error checking or location updating. Whatever people click and enter gets added to the database table.

SUPPORT

I can't offer email support of this script (no time) but you can ask your questions in the Brad Sucks BFF forums and I'll do my best to answer:

http://www.bradsucks.net/forums/

Thanks!

Brad

http://www.bradsucks.net