New Articles: Powering Maps API v3 Apps with MySQL

The Google Maps API v3, our new lightweight version of the JavaScript API, has been out for a few months now, and we want to help developers use this API with server-side scripting and databases. So, we've added an articles section to the documentation with three new articles:

• "Creating a Mobile Store Locator" shows how to query a database for stores near a user's location, and how to present that in a nice mobile-friendly webpage.


• "Using PHP/MySQL with Google Maps" shows how to pull data from a SQL database as XML and display that on the map.


• "From InfoWindows to a Database: Saving User-Added Form Data" shows you how to enable users to add geo-tagged information to a database via your map application.

We've also added links to articles from developer Gabriel Svennerberg, who has started a series on Maps API v3 and is in the process of writing a book.

If you have written an article about using any of our APIs, please let us know using this form. We love to see developers adding knowledge to the community.

Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team