Embed google map module into own webpage

Dear all,

I would like to have the google map created by the gmap module
separately into my webpage. I don't use any default blog like wordpress or so.

Is there a way to easily embed only the map into my page?
When I click on of the markers I would like to open a new page
where the actual album shows up.

Thanks in advance,

Kind regards,

Roy

Hi Termite,

I'm very happy that this will be possible.
However the fullScreen parameter does not seem to work for me.

I use gallery 1.2 with gmap module 1.07.
http://www.ropel.nl/gallery/main.php?g2_view=map.ShowMap&g2_fullScreen=1

What could be wrong?

Thanks again

Ah, stupid!

I was looking in my folder, and I accidentally took the version number
of the map theme that I've downloaded. So currently I use 0.5.1.

I have the map fullscreen now . Can I change to open the album in
a new window without being force to a specific theme?

Furthermore I found that the SVN version uses the PHP5 function stripos.
Replacing that with strpos makes it accessible for more people.

When I add a route I get the error that system() cannot be called for security
reasons. I verified with my host, and they will not enable this call.
The route shows up, but my markers disappear (although their shadows remain).
Is there a workaround?

Thanks again.

Termite,

I'm working on these system() calls and converting them to use $platform->exec() instead. I'm already half done, I'm just trying to make sure the -draw text command is properly formatted/escaped. I already fixed the stripos() calls that I stupidly put in.

Well I was almost done myself ...
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Okay, the fix is done and committed to SVN. The system() calls are gone and replaced with $platform->exec() instead. The route marker creation gave me headaches (convert -draw text is picky about quoting--it requires that you use both single and double quotes--so it caused some grief when it was surrounded by quotes in exec().) I wasn't able to test the code in a Unix environment but I believe it should still work. Someone please let me know if the route markers show up when run on a Unix server.

I don't see any route markers (they should have a number inside the icon), and looking at your page source, the points for the route is empty. Are you sure you saved the route?

I'm not the expert on embedding the map, but I can take a look. I'm guessing the problem is relative links. Could you set up a test page outside the gallery directory like you described so we could look at the source?

Thanks!

It would seem that it doesn't believe the route is enabled. This is probably a language issue, because it's looking for the text "Yes", and your settings probably say something different, or maybe it's a Unicode issue. In any case, the route storage is very brittle to changes like this and it's something we'll be looking at probably shortly after this imminent release. You could experiment by changing your language to English and see if that fixes it.

I'm working on some changes to make the links absolute so you can embed outside of the gallery directory, but it will take a while because there are a lot of places to change.

Sorry, I don't have an easy answer for the routes right now. However, I did commit a couple changes to create absolute links. See if they work for you now.

Actually, something I did completely broke the links for the icon images--they're all relative now. The one that I missed is the only thing that's working! I'm not sure why; I tested it here and all the links were absolute. Are you sure you updated ShowMap.inc as well?

I'm going to have to move a bunch of stuff out of the template and into the PHP file. That's really where it belongs anyway. I may not be able to fix this completely before the release. I'll keep working on it, but if we can't fix it in time, it will be a high priority shortly after.

Hmm... It's hard to say what's going on, then. The key part is the fullUrlOptions array in ShowMap.inc.

$map['fullUrlOptions'] = array('forceFullUrl' => true);

If that's missing, it will still create relative links. I re-tested it using my own external file outside the gallery directory (except using curl instead of readfile) and all the icons and links were absolute, full URLs.

From the code and what's shown in the source, I can conclude that there is a route setup (only 1) but there are no items attached to that route, in other word, you need to edit the route, check some boxes and enter the order of each item

The all route system is currently quite primitive and slightly dumb, but It will be re-done in full after this upcoming release.

If you check + order items to that route, then it will show up ;-)
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Ah. Since I don't have an embedded install set up, I didn't see the need for forceDirect. I understand what it's for now. I'll change it.

Looks like you're right about the empty route, too. The addOverlay call for the GPolyLine is in the generated HTML source, so that means that the "Yes" is there for that route (since that line is inside the {if} block). I still don't know why the links are relative, though.

If your host won't allow system() or exec(), then how are you able to get Gallery working at all? It uses exec() for the imagemagick calls. Maybe you're using gd? Anyway, I'll look at adding a way to gracefully degrade and show the default item marker (without the route sequence number shown on it).

Just discovered some other small things. I hope you consider this as valuable feedback, I don't mean to be intrusive in any way.

When using the embedded mode, the links in the popup windows don't get their default style assigned. Probably the link to some css formatting is missing. (Note the blue line around the image).

Furthermore you might consider removing the "The photomap" title and movement navigator, since you want to provide a fullscreen solution. Anyway I can easily remove those. Just for your consideration.

There will be several "fullscreen" mode available when this is all completed. One of which will be only the map which extend to whatever space is given to it's container

See you soon !
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I think 6.0 & 2.0 is Gallery 2.0 but I'm not certain, the module in SVN only works for Gallery 2.1 & up

See you !
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@readfile, you could try curl. Something similar to:
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:How_To_Use_The_External_Image_Block_When_url_fopen_Is_Disabled

Just a guess.

Dave
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I noticed the double <HTML> blocks. Which is of course a bad thing, but since it works I got to live with it for now

I'll keep following the progress. Please let me know when I can be of use for testing the embedded configuration.

Kind regards,

Roy

Superb, I'll give it a try as soon as possible. I'll let you know what the results are.

Thanks

Yet two other questions.

First I'd like to point out that the @readfile and the curl approach fail to read unicode characters such as ö,å, etc.
Does anyone have other suggestions to read out the html properly, remaining the correct characters?

Furthermore I've changed the infowindow template in order to fit my website. However I can't seem to resize the white balloon itself,
but only the <div> inside. Where is the actual balloon declared?

Regards,

Roy

Do you mean that the URL contains unicode characters, or that the HTML file that's returned contains those characters (like titles)?

The white balloon is called an Info Window and is declared in the modules/map/templates/infowindow folder. Just modify the file that matches the one you selected in the Theme Settings tab (or default.inc if you didn't select one). You'll see the "style=width:200px", etc. Those should really be put into a stylesheet for easy modification, but that will come later. There are plans for allowing total customization of the info windows.

ropel, I think it's time for you to switch providers ;-) I tested it with curl on my development machine with PHP 5.2 and the unicode characters came through fine. I also tested it by linking to YOUR site with a curl on my machine, and the unicode still came through fine. I'm guessing your provider is probably using some old PHP or curl version that doesn't support unicode properly.

Did you try it without your header and footer? Maybe the extra HTML block is screwing up the browsers. By the way, I can't fix that generated HTML block without a major rewrite of the "fullscreen" code. I did add two more modes, as requested by Termitenshort, though: g2_fullScreen=2 will remove the "Photo Map" title. g2_fullScreen=3 will take over the entire screen and hide all the other stuff: thumbnail bar, filter list, legend, move history, etc.

As for the infowindows, I saw a post that said the minimum window size is 204x50 pixels:http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/msg/dba45a604dbb11f2 I'll keep looking into it, though.

Aaaah! Absolute links seem to be gone again with latest SVN version

Furthermore I have some remarks on the new fullScreen modes:
fullScreen mode 2: Probably better to also remove the move history.
fullScreen mode 3: Does not work in Firefox. The map seems to be somewhere above the screen.

I've found that indeed the unicode problem depends on my headers. Thanks for looking into that!

A nice suggestion would be to include also a tab in the administration panel for alternative infoWindow styles.
For instance: http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/googlemaps/ewindows.htm
Just a suggestion

Please try this:

Open your config.php and change the line:
$gallery->setConfig('baseUri', '');

for

$gallery->setConfig('baseUri', '/gallery/');

This should fix your issue when embedding outside the Gallery folder and still keep the fix in place for multi-installs.
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It wasn't intended to fix everything, only the links when using embedded mode outside of the gallery folder and that's it (which it does in a simple embedded situation)

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