Question

I am modifying some javascript for Google maps so that the different pin information is retrieved from my database. If I was to do this with just php it would be like this:

<?php while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query))
{$title = $row['title']; $desc = $row['desc']; echo 'This '.$title .' and this '. $desc .';}?>

If there were 5 rows in the database there will be five lines with 5 different titles and descriptions.
But I have this line of javascript that I would like to be in a while loop:

map.addMarkerByLatLng(37.8685, -1.5108, "Sanatario de Terburculosos", createInfo("title goes here",""));

How can i write it so that that javascript is in a php while loop or how can i do the javascript equivelant of the php while loop so that i can retrieve multiple rows of lang,lat info each in its own javascript code like above?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Combine the two code examples you have provided:

<?php
$pinTpl = 'map.addMarkerByLatLng( %s , %s , "%s" , createInfo( "%s" , "" ) );';
while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $query ) ){
  echo sprintf( $pinTpl ,
         $row['lat'] ,   # Where 'lat' is the field name for the latitude in DB
         $row['long'] ,  # Where 'long' is the longitude field name in DB
         $row['title'] , # The title
         $row['desc']    # The description
  )."\n";                # A newline, for readability
}
?>