Posted by reb on 12/19/05 09:34
El Benjamino a écrit :
> Hey guys, I'm wanting to learn PHP and have an idea for a new project.
> I'd like to put up a simple page for my family members / friends to
> input their address and contact info, and then a script would grab that
> text and convert it to KML (Google Earth's XML spec.)
>
> So what i"m looking for is any direction as to which PHP classes will
> read text from a field and output it to an XML-based file...(if that's
> the right direction...any further ideas here would be helpful.)
You'll need a geocoding engine to transform address to coordinates. Look
at Yahoo (http://toys.lerdorf.com/archives/35-GeoCool!.html); once you
get the coordinates you'll be able to build your KML
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