WordPress Plugin: I Am Here

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Description

I Am Here is a WordPress plugin that uses Fire Eagle, Yahoo! Maps API, Google Weather API, GeoNames and, optionally, World Time Engine to display information about your current location in a widget in the sidebar. To be a little bit more visual, it…

Requirements

Functionality

The plugin retrieves your current location from Fire Eagle and, based on this, does the following:

Installation

  1. Download the zip-file and extract the content to wp-content\plugins.
  2. Login to your WordPress AdminArea and activate the plugin in “Plugins > Plugins”
  3. Go to “Settings > I Am Here” (for WP Version < 2.6: "Options > I Am Here”)and follow the on-screen instructions
  4. It will first take you to Fire Eagle for authorization
  5. After that is done, Fire Eagle will redirect you back to your WordPress Admin Panel
  6. In here, enter the appropriate API key information
  7. After hitting “Save Options”, the page should be refreshed and you should see information about your location displayed in the Admin Panel (map, weather and time)

Also, for making use of Yahoo! Maps on your page, make sure you include the appropriate call to the Yahoo! Maps AJAX API somewhere on your page, like

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://api.maps.yahoo.com/ajaxymap?v=3.8&amp;appid=<your appid here"></script>

Because I am using YUI, you would also need the appropriate components from there:

<script type='text/javascript' src='http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.5.2/build/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.5.2/build/container/container-min.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src="http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.5.2/build/connection/connection-min.js"></script>

Customization

In the Admin Panel of the plugin, which can be found at the backend in “Settings > I Am Here”, you can set a couple of parameters, which are self-explanatory, I guess.

For styling problems, I would need to refer you to the YUI Library, because I am using YUI Panel to display the map overlay. So if you run into problems with misalignment, the answer is most likely there.

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Credits

Initially, I had not thought about the idea of, in addition to the users location, also plotting other Points Of Interest on the map. Simon Willison beat me to it with his wikinear.com :-) . Oh well, thanks Simon, great idea!

About the author

This website is the personal web appearance of Klaus Komenda, an Austrian web developer. The about section offers more info about me and this site.

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