fgrubercpa Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 would anyone have an idea on how the SmartInput is made functional on the Starbucks.com site Store Locator section for the City/State Input field? thx f Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/281148-store-locator-smart-input/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrikor Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 (edited) Normally the site developer will have a pre-made database table with columns for zip/postal code, latitude, longitude, city, state/provence, country; so that they can find what zip codes are next to each other. Then they make another table for all the company's locations. The search just takes the zip code center latitude-&-longitude, and sorts the company locations by the distance to the original zip code center latitude-&-longitude. Looking at it, I think the Starbucks site in particular is just using one of Google's API's, maybe this --> https://developers.google.com/maps/articles/phpsqlajax_v3?hl=en-EN&csw=1 ? Edited August 14, 2013 by Barrikor Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/281148-store-locator-smart-input/#findComment-1444941 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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