FG Location
Developer
Feisty Goat Interactive - Mike Roling
3rd Party (Free)
615 downloads (last 90 days)
EE Version Support
- ExpressionEngine 2
Compatibility
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- Updater
- Multi Site Manager
- Stand Alone Entry Form
- Low Variables
- Content Elements
- Better Workflow
- Matrix
- Grid
- Webservice
- Publisher
Requirements
- jQuery for the Control Panel
Add-On Type(s)
Plugin
Tags
- foursquare, maps, location, google maps, fg, return, google, map
FG Location is an ExpressionEngine 2.x plugin that returns the last check-in information for Foursquare users and also returns a Google map with a marker on the last location. The data is cached for five minutes within the expressionengine/cache directory to increase page load performance and for high traffic sites to stay within the Foursquare API rate limits.
To install, upload fg_location folder within /system/expressionengine/third_party/ and ensure /system/expressionengine/cache/ is writable by the web server.
Example Usage
Foursquare
{exp:fg_location:foursquare private_rss="URL TO PRIVATE FEED" map_height="100" map_width="100" map_marker_color="blue"}
<p><a href="{google_map_link}"><img src="{google_map}" /></a>
<a href="{checkin_link}">{location_name}</a><em>{city}, {state}</em></p>
{/exp:fg_location:foursquare}
Parameters
- private_rss (Foursquare, required): The private rss URL to the user’s checkin history. This URL can be obtained by going to https://foursquare.com/feeds/ and following the instructions.
- map_height: The Google map height.
- map_width: The Google map width.
- map_marker_color: The Google map marker color. You can use 24 bit color (0xFFFFCC) or a predefined color from the set (black, brown, green, purple, yellow, blue, gray, orange, red, white).
Single Variables
- {location_name}: The name of the location entity.
- {city}: The city name of the location.
- {state}: The state name of the location.
- {coordinates}: The coordinates (long,lat) of the location.
- {checkin_link}: The URL to the checkin on the third party site.
- {google_map}: The URL to the Google map image of the location.
- {google_map_link}: The URL to the Google maps service.
Requirements
Web server writable /system/expressionengine/cache directory.
PHP 5.2+
Notes
If the plugin isn’t working after install, make sure that the /system/expressionengine/cache directory is writeable by the web server.
When modifying the map width and height variables, you may need to empty the cache to see the changes.
Download FG Location
EE Support | Downloads | Add-On Version | Release Date |
---|---|---|---|
Not Specified | Download | 1.0.4 | Sep 21, 2011 |
FG Location Links
This entry was created June 6, 2011, 3:17 pm.
This entry was last updated July 12, 2013, 11:48 pm.
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