friendsofvictoire/gmap-widget

Victoire DCMS Google Maps widget

Victoire DCMS Google Maps Bundle

What is the purpose of this bundle

This bundles gives you access to the Google Maps Widget. This widget can put a dynamic Google Maps within your website with the following settings :, _(*1)

• Latitud
• Longitud
• Map's zoom
• Title of the Map
• Hide or not the pointer
• Import of any KML File

Set Up Victoire

If you haven't already, you can follow the steps to set up Victoire here, _(*2)

Install the bundle

Run the following composer command :, _(*3)

php composer.phar require friendsofvictoire/gmap-widget

Reminder

Do not forget to add the bundle in your AppKernel !, _(*4)

    class AppKernel extends Kernel
    {
        public function registerBundles()
        {
            $bundles = array(
                ...
                new Victoire\Widget\GmapBundle\VictoireWidgetGmapBundle(),
            );

            return $bundles;
        }
    }

Parameters

Add your api key in your app parameters, _(*5)

    victoire_widget_gmap.api_key: xxx

KML

The widget generate a bug if the KML file is upload on a local project. You can test KML import with this example given by Google., _(*6)

Multiple widget & Google Maps API

If you use several widgets Google Maps on the same page, in order to prevent each one of them to make Google Maps API call, a javascript is used to call once and for all thhe API. This javascript triggers an event with only one Google Maps callback to initialize the widgets., _(*7)