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Ok, I got MTYahooMaps plugin to work for Individual Entries and Category pages, but the Daily, Weekly and Monthly archives get all screwed up. I’ve tracked down the problem to the fact that when a Plugin gets called an Archive Context, there is no Entry to reference.

That is, when pulling an Entry from the context stash, No entry is returned, but you can get the Entries (multiple) out of the context stash. By going thru each Entry Text, I can determine which Entries being need MTYahooMap written for them but not Which one is currently being called.

To make things even more entertaining, I don’t want to assume that the page will be written with the Latest Entry at the Top, oldest at the Bottom.

Once I have an Array of Entries, I need to order the array by Creation Date. The question then is: Ascending or Descending? This is done via the Blog "sort_order_posts" setting which is accesable via the PERL API.

If this works, I’ll get a Map of 11 Madison Avenue…

Likely it blows up on the first try…

Update 1: Yep, It blew up. Left some important Template variables out of the PERL portion.
Update 2: Added a Flash Template that **STILL** doesn’t work to well in I.E.
Update 3: Will add Browser detection. If it finds a I.E. Browser, It will use Yahoo Maps AJAX version.

Off for Thanksgiving Dinner!

Happy Thanksgiving to All!

I’m Playing around with a new plugin called MTGoogleMaps By Nick Punter. It’s a cool idea and should be fun to implement. Also, the PERL code is a nice and neat piece of programing.

Update: It would have helped if I had the HTML::Template and LWP::Simple perl Modules installed. Fixed via ´perl -MCPAN -e shell´ and just installing them.

Another Update: Get the Process Tags plugin. With my installation of MT, Embedded Tags in the Entry won’t work without it. After installing it I changed my Templates from ´<$MTEntryBody$>´ to ´<$MTEntryBody process_tags="1" $>´ which seemed to do the trick nicely.

Yet Another Update: Don’t use the Ajaxify WYSIWYG Plugin with this as Ajaxify striped out all sorts of things!

Last Update: In GoogleMap.pl, sub jstemplate, fixed a slight and subtle bug:
Changed:
$loglat .= "$1, $2"; to
$loglat = "$1, $2";

Also added zoomcontrol and Maptype as parameters.

The Map was created with:
<MTGoogleMaps address="11 Madison avenue,NY, NY, 10010"
info="11 Madison Avenue Nice Place"
width="540px"
height="300px"
zoom="2"
zoomcontrol="large"
maptype="map">
</MTGoogleMaps>

zoomcontrol can be “large” or “small”
maptype can be "map", "hybrid", or "satellite"
Both zoomcontrol and maptype are optional.

My Modifications are trivial, Nick Punter did the hard work by researching the hows and why to apply this to Movable Type.

Note:It breaks with Internet Explorer. Bizarre! It works fine in Firefox & Opera!!! The authors Web page blows up too.

Anyone use Safari on a Mac? Let me know the result at sd_042 ât yahoo.com

I’m betting that the HTML that gets generated is not quite agreeable to Internet Explorer so I’ve modified the generated javascript code to detect the browser. I’ve isolated it to the script block, but can’t quite figure out what it is exactly. I’ll put it on my List of things to do…