I would like to add a simple search locator to my web site so that customers can type in their zip code be able to view the store closest to them that carries my products. Something similar to the example that I have attached. Not sure where to start with this. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you, Randy
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If you are willing to pay someone else for this, there are services that will set this up for you. If you want to roll your own, then you need a programming environment on your server like PHP or Ruby, and you need a database of your locations (and possibly an up-to-date Zip code geolocation database, too). In Ruby on Rails, this takes minutes to set up using the geocoder Gem and the Google Maps API – the cowpath is well and truly paved. In PHP, it’s a half-hour to an hour of work for an experienced programmer using MySQL to create a “great circle” index from one Zip code to another.
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On Feb 20, 2013, at 9:55 AM, RBC wrote:
I would like to add a simple search locator to my web site so that customers can type in their zip code be able to view the store closest to them that carries my products. Something similar to the example that I have attached. Not sure where to start with this. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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