Gravity Support Forums Topic: Saving lat/long data from a form

Gravity Support Forums Topic: Saving lat/long data from a form https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/saving-latlong-data-from-a-form Gravity Support Forums Topic: Saving lat/long data from a form en-US Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:53:21 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 <![CDATA[Search]]> q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php clay123 on "Saving lat/long data from a form" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/saving-latlong-data-from-a-form#post-37637 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:22:46 +0000 clay123 37637@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Ohhh I see! I'm not using the advanced address field because I'm creating posts from the form using POST CUSTOM FIELD s.. Got it so I just use the number from the input field! Thank yoU!!! David Smith on "Saving lat/long data from a form" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/saving-latlong-data-from-a-form#post-37621 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:37:43 +0000 David Smith 37621@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Hi Clay, The 6.x IDs are probably not correct. The address field has an ID (ie 2) and then it has a decimal number for each input in the field, so: Address = 2.1 Address Line #2 = 2.2 City = 2.3 State = 2.4 Zip = 2.5 Country = 2.6 Make sense? clay123 on "Saving lat/long data from a form" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/saving-latlong-data-from-a-form#post-37600 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:01:47 +0000 clay123 37600@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ By the way the fields for latitude and longitude are _wp_geo_latitude and _wp_geo_longitude clay123 on "Saving lat/long data from a form" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/saving-latlong-data-from-a-form#post-37599 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:57:59 +0000 clay123 37599@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Thanks for the code help David! That's really kind of you. I updated my address city, state, zip fields and api, but no luck. See anything I did wrong? Note, while I removed it here, I included my gmaps api as well. <a href="http://pastie.org/2679206" rel="nofollow">http://pastie.org/2679206</a> David Smith on "Saving lat/long data from a form" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/saving-latlong-data-from-a-form#post-37468 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:08:15 +0000 David Smith 37468@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Hi Clay, There were several issues with the code. I've cleaned it up a bit but you will still need to replace some variables to integrate with your specific form. <a href="http://pastie.org/2672031" rel="nofollow">http://pastie.org/2672031</a> Also, don't forget to add your API key back in. clay123 on "Saving lat/long data from a form" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/saving-latlong-data-from-a-form#post-37325 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:17:08 +0000 clay123 37325@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ I was wondering if I could get a little direction on this. I would like to geocode lat and lng from the address the user provides in the form and insert lat and lng into the database as post meta. I know how to set up the form, but not sure if I'm on the right track for defining a pre submission function calling the data back from google api. Here's what I pieced together so far, not working. <pre><code>[php] // gforms hook for form_# add_action("gform_pre_submission_6", "pre_submission"); function pre_submission_handler($form){ // function to take address and turn it into coordinates lat and lng function getLatLong($code){ $mapsApiKey = '(REMOVED FROM POST ONLY)'; $query = "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=".urlencode($code)."&output=json&key=".$mapsApiKey; // This takes your full street address to create the lat/long $data = file_get_contents($query); // if data returned if($data){ // convert into readable format $data = json_decode($data); $long = $data->Placemark[0]->Point->coordinates[0]; $lat = $data->Placemark[0]->Point->coordinates[1]; return array('Latitude'=>$lat,'Longitude'=>$long); }else{ return false; } } //was called process.php $query_string = $_POST['address'] . "+" . $_POST['city'] . "+" . $_POST['state'] . "+" . $_POST['zipcode']; $coords = getLatLong($query_string); $lat = $coords['_wp_geo_latitude']; $lng = $coords['_wp_geo_longitude']; }</code></pre> Carl Hancock on "Saving lat/long data from a form" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/saving-latlong-data-from-a-form#post-16822 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:59:50 +0000 Carl Hancock 16822@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ We are finishing up all new documentation that will launch with Gravity Forms v1.5 at the beginning of February. Until then I have created a PDF of the gform_pre_submission hook example and specifications. You can download the PDF here: <a href="http://bit.ly/i1xedx" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/i1xedx</a> hardseatsleeper on "Saving lat/long data from a form" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/saving-latlong-data-from-a-form#post-16818 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:30:22 +0000 hardseatsleeper 16818@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Hi Carl, The Google geocoding I know already, that's not a problem. It's the gform_pre_submission that I don't know. <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/?s=gform_pre_submission" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/?s=gform_pre_submission</a> Thanks for the help, let me look into this. If I can jimmy something I'll post back here. Carl Hancock on "Saving lat/long data from a form" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/saving-latlong-data-from-a-form#post-16813 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:36:02 +0000 Carl Hancock 16813@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ This is possible, but it would be fairy complicated. You would first need to know how to use the Google geocoding API. You would first need to add one or two hidden fields to your form depending on if you want to store the lat/long in one field or as a lat and a long. On form submission you would use the gform_pre_submission hook and pass the field data for the Address field to Google geocoding API and receive back a lat/long. You would then also use the gform_pre_submission hook to then store the value that Google returns in the hidden fields. You would need to know hot to use WordPress hooks, and the Google geooding API to pull it off. It is certainly doable. hardseatsleeper on "Saving lat/long data from a form" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/saving-latlong-data-from-a-form#post-16810 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:23:32 +0000 hardseatsleeper 16810@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ This is not a GF issue really, but maybe some of you brainiacs can help me. I have a form where people are entering addresses & locations. I could use Google's reverse geocoding APIs to get the latitude and longitude of the adresses, but what I really want to do is save that data to the db when they submit. Any idea how I could hack a gravity form to run the geocoder, then save the lat/long to the db?