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- CONTENTS OF THIS FILE
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- * Introduction
- * Installation
- INTRODUCTION
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- Current maintainer: Brandon Bergren <http://drupal.org/user/53081>
- Location module and its associated API allows Drupal objects, including nodes
- and users, to be associated with specific physical locations.
- This package consists of several modules, including:
- - Location (required): Base module that provides a standard API and storage for
- location data.
- - Location Add Another: Quickly add additional locations directly from a node.
- - Location Fax: Add a fax number to a location.
- - Location Phone: Add a phone number to a location.
- - Location Search: A custom search page for locations.
- For Drupal 6, Views support has been rolled directly into the base Location module.
- INSTALLATION
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- 1. Copy the files to your sites/SITENAME/modules directory.
- 2. Enable the Location module and any desired optional modules at Administer >>
- Site building >> Modules (admin/build/modules).
- 3. Set user permissions for Location module at Administer >> User management >>
- Access control (admin/user/access).
- 4. Configure Location module's settings at Administer >> Site configuration >>
- Location (admin/settings/location). Here, you may configure settings related
- to how Location fields are displayed, how location data is gathered, what
- geocoding service is used to translate addresses to longitude and latitude
- points, and which mapping service should display them.
- 5. If you wish to collect location data about content, go to Administer >>
- Content management >> Content types and click "edit" on the given type, such
- as "Event". In the Locative information fieldset, expand and set your
- options accordingly.
- 6. (Optional) Import a postal codes database for the countries served by your
- website, to support proximity searches and other useful features. Postal
- code databases may be found in the "databases/" sub-directory of the
- Location module directory. The files are in the format of zipcodes.CC.mysql,
- where CC is a two-letter country code such as 'us' or 'de'.
- Note: If your site is using table prefixes, you will need to adjust for this
- manually, by opening the file in a text editor and replacing 'zipcodes' with
- 'prefix_zipcodes' throughout.
- To import the files from the command line, enter the following:
- cd sites/SITENAME/modules/location
- mysql -u username -p database-name < database/zipcodes.us.mysql
- KNOWN ISSUES
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- 1. Node locations and CCK locations cannot safely be used on the same content types.
- You can use both on one site but they must be used on different content types.
- To turn node locations off for a particular content type edit the content type
- and set the max number of locations to zero.
- The problem is that node locations can interfere with the saving of cck locations
- and you can end up losing your cck locations.
- For more information see this issue - http://drupal.org/node/906968.
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