I’ve been fortunate enough to use Advanced Custom Fields (acf) add-on of Google Maps several times and have had really nice results (pairs vary well with snazzy maps for google map visual customization).
The only thing is that its not documented very well passed its default use. Often enough you want default functionality that google maps give you out of box, but when allowing the user to create their own points then it does’t always worked out as planned. Google Maps InfoWindow would be an example of that here:
By default Advanced Custom Fields (acf), leaves each info window open at the same time. This gets annoying when you have either a handful of points, or points that are close together. I’ll attached the modified code below to do two things:
- Only one InfoWindow will be open at a time
- If you click on the map, all InfoWindows will close.
(function($) {
/*
* render_map
*
* This function will render a Google Map onto the selected jQuery element
*
* @type function
* @date 8/11/2013
* @since 4.3.0
*
* @param $el (jQuery element)
* @return n/a
*/
function render_map( $el ) {
// var
var $markers = $el.find('.marker');
// vars
var args = {
zoom : 16,
center : new google.maps.LatLng(0, 0),
mapTypeId : google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
};
// create map
var map = new google.maps.Map( $el[0], args);
// add a markers reference
map.markers = [];
// add markers
$markers.each(function(){
add_marker( $(this), map );
});
// center map
center_map( map );
}
// create info window outside of each - then tell that singular infowindow to swap content based on click
var infowindow = new google.maps.InfoWindow({
content : ''
});
/*
* add_marker
*
* This function will add a marker to the selected Google Map
*
* @type function
* @date 8/11/2013
* @since 4.3.0
*
* @param $marker (jQuery element)
* @param map (Google Map object)
* @return n/a
*/
function add_marker( $marker, map ) {
// var
var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng( $marker.attr('data-lat'), $marker.attr('data-lng') );
// create marker
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
position : latlng,
map : map
});
// add to array
map.markers.push( marker );
// if marker contains HTML, add it to an infoWindow
if( $marker.html() )
{
// show info window when marker is clicked & close other markers
google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function() {
//swap content of that singular infowindow
infowindow.setContent($marker.html());
infowindow.open(map, marker);
});
// close info window when map is clicked
google.maps.event.addListener(map, 'click', function(event) {
if (infowindow) {
infowindow.close(); }
});
}
}
/*
* center_map
*
* This function will center the map, showing all markers attached to this map
*
* @type function
* @date 8/11/2013
* @since 4.3.0
*
* @param map (Google Map object)
* @return n/a
*/
function center_map( map ) {
// vars
var bounds = new google.maps.LatLngBounds();
// loop through all markers and create bounds
$.each( map.markers, function( i, marker ){
var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng( marker.position.lat(), marker.position.lng() );
bounds.extend( latlng );
});
// only 1 marker?
if( map.markers.length == 1 )
{
// set center of map
map.setCenter( bounds.getCenter() );
map.setZoom( 16 );
}
else
{
// fit to bounds
map.fitBounds( bounds );
}
}
/*
* document ready
*
* This function will render each map when the document is ready (page has loaded)
*
* @type function
* @date 8/11/2013
* @since 5.0.0
*
* @param n/a
* @return n/a
*/
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.acf-map').each(function(){
render_map( $(this) );
});
});
})(jQuery);