This article will be useful for those who are using jquery-gmap extension in Yii.

Here i am going to tell you how you can plot multiple locations in a single google map using this extension and how you can capture all marker locations when a user changing them.This will be useful when you are giving an option to mark multiple locations for a user and save all the updated locations in a single map.

i hope you already familiar with this extension and you are willing to store a single location through this extension.If you are not you can reffer one of my preveous article with this same extension(Google maps in Yii).

So you might have a location model which stores all the location of a business model.So you will be having ONE-TO-MANY relation from business to location  model.

Try the below code in your business create form.(_form.php)
<?php

// create a map centered in the middle of the world …
$gmap = new EGmap3Widget();
$gmap->width=’600’;
$gmap->height=’450’;
$gmap->setOptions(array(
        ‘zoom’ => 14,
        ‘center’ => array(0,0),
));

$model=Business::model()->findbyPk(‘3’);

$i=0;

foreach($model->locations as $loc)
{
//Initialize a marker
$m[$i] = new EGmap3Marker(array(
    ‘title’ => $loc->shop_name,
    ‘draggable’=>true,
));
  //set location
 $m[$i]->latLng=array($loc->latitude,$loc->longitude);

/* add dragend event with an autogenerate js function(ie captureMarkerPosition()) */

 $m[$i]->addEvent(‘dragend’, ‘function(result){captureMarkerPosition’.$i.’(result);}’);

//add marker to gmap
 $gmap->add($m[$i]);

/* generate hidden input fields to store locations */
echo “
<input type=’hidden’ name=’Location_id[]’ value=’”.$loc->id.”’ >
<input type=’hidden’ name=’Location_latitude[]’ id=’Location_latitude”.$i.”’ value=’”.$loc->latitude.”’>
<input type=’hidden’ name=’Location_longitude[]’ id=’Location_longitude”.$i.”’ value=’”.$loc->longitude.”’>
”;
/*Generate individual functions to capture the marker position  */
echo ‘
<script type=”text/javascript”>
function captureMarkerPosition’.$i.’(marker)
{
 document.getElementById(“Location_latitude’.$i.’”).value=marker.getPosition().lat();
 document.getElementById(“Location_longitude’.$i.’”).value=marker.getPosition().lng();
}
</script>’;


$i++;

}//end loop
?>

Now we want to store all these captured positions when the user press the submit button.We can write a some code in the controller action.
<?php 
eg:actionCreatLocation.php

   if(isset($_POST[‘Location_latitude’])&&isset($_POST[‘Location_latitude’]))
                        {
                          
                                  $location[‘id’]=$_POST[‘Location_id’]; 
                                  $location[‘latitude’]=$_POST[‘Location_latitude’]; 
                                  $location[‘longitude’]=$_POST[‘Location_longitude’];
                                 
                                  $i=0;
                                  foreach($location[‘id’] as $id)
                                  {
                                   $l=Location::model()->findbyPk($id);
                                   $l->latitude=$location[‘latitude’][$i];
                                   $l->longitude =$location[‘longitude’][$i];
                                   $l->save(false);
                                    $i++;
                                  }
                                }
?>

the above code will store the updated marker co-ordinates to Location model.

Regards,

sirin k
Nintriva Wireless
INDIA