I learned a cool trick today while working on an upgrade to a clients real estate solution. I was looking for a way to dynamically link out to a Google Map for each property my client had listed in their database. I ran across a post that Jane at Xlinesoft had responded to a user with that demonstrated how to do this and gave it a shot and it worked. Since I was already capturing “address”, “city”, “state”, and “zip” when the client entered a new listing into their system I just went into the Visual Editor of PHPRunner and selected the Custom Format option and input an expression using those fields.
It seems to be working well, you can go to: http://www.cottonrohrscheib.com/projects/powersite_real_estate_demo/property_view.php?editid1=1 and click on the “View Google Map to Property” link to preview this in action. If you want to go and read Jane’s post, click here…
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