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Hard Coding Google Maps Block into theme page type.

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Im new to Concrete5 so bear with me if this is obvious. Im using Concrete 5.6.0.2.

Im creating a theme for a page type that has an address and I want to hard code in a google map block. Ive looked at the API and previous posts and have gotten the following:

$bt_map = BlockType::getByHandle('google_map');
$bt_map->controller->title = $c->getAttribute('event_location');
$bt_map->controller->location = (string)$c->getAttribute('event_address');
$bt_map->controller->zoom = 15;
$bt_map->render('view');

Previous examples have said that this also requires an API key etc but since using the Google Maps API no longer requires one and those examples are from last year, I stripped that stuff out.

The problem Im getting is that the title renders fine but the map doesnt get rendered in the googleMapCanvas div. I then checked the bottom list of scripts and the google maps js doesnt seem to be included in.

Is this something I have to do manually or have I not implemented the block correctly? If I have to do it manually, how do I go about it?

Thanks very much in advance.

planist1 replied on Oct 3, 2012 at 1:48 pm Permalink Reply

Try putting

<?php
$this->addHeaderItem(Loader::helper('html')->javascript('jquery.js'), 'CORE');
?>

on the page?

See here:
http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/usage/google-map-block-bl...

Hope this helps.

chrisg replied on Oct 3, 2012 at 8:13 pm Permalink Reply

Thanks for the help. It was including the jquery js, just not the google maps js. I ended up getting it working with:

<?php
  defined('C5_EXECUTE') or die("Access Denied.");
  $address = $c->getAttribute('event_address');
  //setup google map
  $bt_map = BlockType::getByHandle('google_map');
  $bt_map->controller->title = $c->getAttribute('event_location');
  $bt_map->controller->location = (string)$address;
  $coords = $bt_map->controller->lookupLatLong((string)$address);
  $bt_map->controller->latitude = floatval($coords['lat']);
  $bt_map->controller->longitude = floatval($coords['lng']);
  $bt_map->controller->zoom = 15;
  $this->inc('elements/header.php');
?>
...
Page Type HTML

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<?php
  defined('C5_EXECUTE') or die("Access Denied.");
 
  $address = $c->getAttribute('event_address');
  //setup google map
  $bt_map = BlockType::getByHandle('google_map');
  $bt_map->controller->title = $c->getAttribute('event_location');
  $bt_map->controller->location = (string)$address;
  $coords = $bt_map->controller->lookupLatLong((string)$address);
 
  $bt_map->controller->latitude = floatval($coords['lat']);
  $bt_map->controller->longitude = floatval($coords['lng']);
  $bt_map->controller->zoom = 15;
 
  $this->inc('elements/header.php');
?>
...
Page Type HTML
...
<?php
  $bt_map->controller->on_page_view();
  $this->inc('elements/footer.php'); 
?>

Thanks!

McArtney82 replied on Mar 30, 2013 at 10:09 pm Permalink Reply

I know this is somewhat outdated now but in case anyone else is looking at this, because this drove me crazy. I had to add the footer to my code too as the core Google Maps block adds some code to display the map in your footer.

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