Google map from CCK fields
picciuto - October 26, 2008 - 22:18
I have Drupal 6.5 and I'm fairly new to Drupal. I am building a simple business directory using CCK & Views. Well, it was simple until I tried to add Google Maps to each entry. I've made a few custom CCK fields (Street, City, Zip) and I would like to know if I can display a Google Map from these fields. I've looked into a few different modules (Gmaps, Location, Address, Geo) but nothing seems to do what I'm looking for or they seem overly complicated for a simple map display. It appears it was possible with Drupal 5.x using the CCK Map module but it's not compatible with Drupal 6.x. If anybody has any tips or suggestions I would be very grateful.
afaik, gmap and location are
afaik, gmap and location are the map modules for d6.
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Not sure what afaik is
Hmmm, I'm not sure what afaik is. I have played around with Gmap with no luck of pulling the address from CCK fields.
lol-- sorry it's just one of
lol-- sorry it's just one of those lovely little internet laziness conventions. AKAIK = As Far As I Know
Sorry-- I've not used the gmap module except with the location module which seems to work great so far (with the current d6 stable releases of each module).
The cck_gmapaddress module looks promising, but it's not available for d6 yet.
EDIT: it appears as if location module is adding a cck location field, see http://drupal.org/node/183004#comment-1074517.
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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Lao Tzu
"God helps those who help themselves." - Ben Franklin
"Search is your best friend." - Worldfallz
Wow, you would think for as
Wow, you would think for as many hours as I spend in the internet everyday I would know what AFAIK is. Haha. Thanks for the tip!