Question

I hope there is a php genius here somewhere who can help me with this. I have a database table called baeir, it has the following fields:


b_id (primary key)

b_name

hrepparid (does not need to be displayed)

stjarna (does not need to be displayed)

lat

lng

comments

The table contains a name of a farm (b_name), its geographical coordinates (lat, lng) and comments – if there are any.

What I need is to get this data into a kml file. I have tried to go through the tutorial on google’s webpage and I got it to work BUT once I try to edit, it goes to h***. As far as I can understand, a kml file is basically an xml file but unfortunately my php skills are not advanced enough to handle this.

I hope someone can help :-))

This is the code I have from google, and it looks a bit too…detailed for my liking. Any ideas how to simplify the code so that I can get my variables into it and nothing else?

<?php
require('phpsqlajax_dbinfo.php');

// Opens a connection to a MySQL server.

$connection = mysql_connect ($server, $username, $password);

if (!$connection) 
{
  die('Not connected : ' . mysql_error());
}
// Sets the active MySQL database.
$db_selected = mysql_select_db($database, $connection);

if (!$db_selected) 
{
  die('Can\'t use db : ' . mysql_error());
}

// Selects all the rows in the markers table.
$query = 'SELECT * FROM markers WHERE 1';
$result = mysql_query($query);

if (!$result) 
{
  die('Invalid query: ' . mysql_error());
}

// Creates the Document.
$dom = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');


// Creates the root KML element and appends it to the root document.
$node = $dom->createElementNS('http://earth.google.com/kml/2.1', 'kml');
$parNode = $dom->appendChild($node);

// Creates a KML Document element and append it to the KML element.
$dnode = $dom->createElement('Document');
$docNode = $parNode->appendChild($dnode);


// Creates the two Style elements, one for restaurant and one for bar, and append the elements to the Document element.
$restStyleNode = $dom->createElement('Style');
$restStyleNode->setAttribute('id', 'restaurantStyle');
$restIconstyleNode = $dom->createElement('IconStyle');
$restIconstyleNode->setAttribute('id', 'restaurantIcon');
$restIconNode = $dom->createElement('Icon');
$restHref = $dom->createElement('href', 'http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pal2/icon63.png');
$restIconNode->appendChild($restHref);
$restIconstyleNode->appendChild($restIconNode);
$restStyleNode->appendChild($restIconstyleNode);
$docNode->appendChild($restStyleNode);

$barStyleNode = $dom->createElement('Style');
$barStyleNode->setAttribute('id', 'barStyle');
$barIconstyleNode = $dom->createElement('IconStyle');
$barIconstyleNode->setAttribute('id', 'barIcon');
$barIconNode = $dom->createElement('Icon');
$barHref = $dom->createElement('href', 'http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pal2/icon27.png');
$barIconNode->appendChild($barHref);
$barIconstyleNode->appendChild($barIconNode);
$barStyleNode->appendChild($barIconstyleNode);
$docNode->appendChild($barStyleNode);

// Iterates through the MySQL results, creating one Placemark for each row.
while ($row = @mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
  // Creates a Placemark and append it to the Document.

  $node = $dom->createElement('Placemark');
  $placeNode = $docNode->appendChild($node);

  // Creates an id attribute and assign it the value of id column.
  $placeNode->setAttribute('id', 'placemark' . $row['id']);

  // Create name, and description elements and assigns them the values of the name and address columns from the results.
  $nameNode = $dom->createElement('name',htmlentities($row['name']));
  $placeNode->appendChild($nameNode);
  $descNode = $dom->createElement('description', $row['address']);
  $placeNode->appendChild($descNode);
  $styleUrl = $dom->createElement('styleUrl', '#' . $row['type'] . 'Style');
  $placeNode->appendChild($styleUrl);

  // Creates a Point element.
  $pointNode = $dom->createElement('Point');
  $placeNode->appendChild($pointNode);

  // Creates a coordinates element and gives it the value of the lng and lat columns from the results.
  $coorStr = $row['lng'] . ','  . $row['lat'];
  $coorNode = $dom->createElement('coordinates', $coorStr);
  $pointNode->appendChild($coorNode);
}


$kmlOutput = $dom->saveXML();
while (@ob_end_clean());
header('content-type:text/xml;');
echo $kmlOutput;

?>

Answer 1

as mentioned above, the following Google Maps tutorial answers your question ALMOST completely: http://code.google.com/apis/kml/articles/phpmysqlkml.html

unfortunately, it does not propose code for polygon parsing (which you will need, if you are managing farm areas display), but you can adapt the LinesString parsing method and achieve it. beware of properly embedding the outerBoundaryIs tag in the Polygon tag AND remember that you must duplicate the starting point for the polygon to be drawn correctly.

    $lineNode = $dom->createElement('Polygon');
$placeNode = $placeNode->appendChild($lineNode);
$exnode = $dom->createElement('extrude', '1');
$lineNode->appendChild($exnode);
$almodenode =$dom->createElement(altitudeMode,'relativeToGround');
$lineNode->appendChild($almodenode);
$outerboundnode = $dom->createElement('outerBoundaryIs');
$placeNode = $placeNode->appendChild($outerboundnode);
$ringnode =$dom->createElement('LinearRing');
$placeNode = $placeNode->appendChild($ringnode);
    // optional styletag colors the polygon
//$stylenode =$dom->createElement(styleUrl,'#transYellowPoly');
//$lineNode->appendChild($stylenode);

//Create a coordinates element and give it the value of the lng and lat columns from the results
//$coorNode = $dom->createElement('coordinates',$row['coordinates']);
$coorNode = $dom->createElement('coordinates',$coordinates);
$placeNode = $placeNode->appendChild($coorNode);