Introduction
The projects for this chapter involve the Google Maps API, geolocation, and PHP. I will describe two applications: the first just to show geolocation, a facility in which the browser determines the user’s location using one of a variety of means. This application lets you find out where the location services think you are and compare it to where you really are. The second application provides a way for the user to generate an e-mail using the geolocation information along with other data and send it to someone. This makes use of a server-side PHP script to send the e-mail, and HTML5 form validation to confirm the e-mail addresses.
The geolocation specification is under development in parallel with HTML5 and is considered a distinct ...
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