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Embedding a javascript google guestmap: how to fire an onload (5 posts)

  1. digitaltoast
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    I'm trying to embed this guestmap:
    http://www.thompsonbd.com/guestmap.php into WordPress 2.0.4

    To this end, I've read all of the below and many more in the last couple of days:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/22160?replies=2
    http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=TwistyComments
    http://news.hping.org/comp.lang.javascript.archive/0126.html
    http://www.thompsonbd.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=98
    http://www.galleryembedded.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=14498#14498
    (the method mentioned in the last link was too ugly and stopped working after the guestmap was updated for API V2)

    So, the closest I could come up with was:
    http://www.horseriding-dunedin.co.nz/guestmap.txt
    which is just a modified version of the plugins template.
    It can be seen in non-action at:
    http://www.horseriding-dunedin.co.nz/trek/guestbook/

    The map loads fine, but try as I might (and oh, how I've tried!) I can't get the javascript and
    <body onload="onLoad()" onunload="GUnload()">
    parts to go in the right place.

    I've tried my best to learn on my own, but I think there's something fundamental about page wrapping I'm not understanding, and I'd greatly appreciate the assistance.

  2. Les Bessant
    Moderator and keeper of the Tiggers
    Posted 6 years ago #

    I think you're close...

    The page template has a Get_header() call. This pulls in the standard header.php from your template. This (probably) includes a <body> tag. As your page template includes its own <body> tag (with the script), this isn't going to work.

    How about copying the contents of your header.php into your template, remove the get-header(), remove the extra <body> and try that?

  3. Samuel Wood (Otto)
    Tech Ninja
    Posted 6 years ago #

    You also call get_header() twice in that template, which most definitely will not work.

    Probably your best bet is to eschew the get_header call entirely and copy the header in yourself. Not the best way to do things, but it would work for a one-shot deal.

  4. digitaltoast
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    Well, I've done all the above, spent a couple of weeks with a headache, going to give up and ask for help again!

    The embedded guestmap is showing in Firefox but not clickable, but not in IE at all, but is giving a javascript error "pdmarker is not defined", and points me to this bit of code:

    var point0 = new GLatLng(53.33087298301704, -1.0546875);
    448 var marker0 = new PdMarker(point0, icon);

    You can see the problem at:
    http://www.horseriding-dunedin.co.nz/trek/guestbook/

    It would be a shame to abandon it altogether - perhaps someone more skilled than me could make a proper WordPress plugin out of it? Where would I suggest this kind of thing?

  5. digitaltoast
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    Well, it's been 7 months. That developer has kind of given up on it and I'm looking for a decent Google Maps based guestmap, even if it can't be embedded in WordPress.
    I don't want to use an externally hosted on because they either disappear, or suddenly start flooding you with adverts!

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