[Resolved] How do I display a map with PHP?

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[amandaD]

Sorry, I have searched your site and all I can find is shortcodes and tutorials on using the Block editor.

I am building a custom single post template page in PHP and I need to display my Google map showing the single listing as a marker on the map. Where do I find the documentation for that?

I've been trying to use this:

<div id="js-wpv-addon-maps-render-my-map" style="width:400px; height:200px;" class="wpv-addon-maps-render js-wpv-addon-maps-render js-wpv-addon-maps-render-my-map " data-map="my-map" data-generalzoom="6" data-generalcenterlat="0" data-generalcenterlon="0" data-fitbounds="off" data-singlezoom="15" data-singlecenter="on" data-maptype="roadmap" data-showlayerinterests="false" data-markericon="" data-markericonhover="" data-draggable="on" data-scrollwheel="on" data-doubleclickzoom="on" data-maptypecontrol="on" data-fullscreencontrol="on" data-zoomcontrol="on" data-streetviewcontrol="on" data-backgroundcolor="" data-cluster="on" data-clustergridsize="60" data-clustermaxzoom="" data-clusterclickzoom="on" data-clusterminsize="2" data-stylejson="//toolset.com/wp-content/plugins/toolset-maps/resources/json/Standard.json" data-spiderfy="off" data-streetview="off" data-markerid="" data-location="" data-lat="0" data-long="0" data-heading="" data-pitch=""></div>

but the shortcode documentation doesn't tell me much about

map_id

- is this an ID that I make up and just needs to be unique, like any other html ID, or is it looking for a specific ID ?

The above code is supposedly the shortcode for

wpv-map-render

but it doesn't render anything - just a blank rectangle and no error messages in the console.

I have the address and lat/long co-ordinates - I just need to know how to actually render the map. I was previously using my own map, but that clashes with Toolset Maps (errors about including the maps API multiple times on the same page).

[Minesh]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

There is no PHP API available to display the Toolset Map using PHP.

- is this an ID that I make up and just needs to be unique, like any other html ID, or is it looking for a specific ID ?
==>
yes, the map ID should be unique.

To display the map inside your PHP template there are couple of ways.

Either you should create a view that display your map and use the View's PHP API function: render_view()
=> https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/views-api/#render_view
Or
You should create a content template that hold your Map and use the function: render_view_template() that should render the content template:
=> https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/views-api/#render_view_template
Or
You can use do_shortcode() function to render the map shortcodes:

echo do_shortcode ('[wpv-map-render map_id="map-1"]');
echo do_shortcode ('[wpv-map-marker map_id="map-1" marker_id="marker-1" marker_field="wpcf-address"][/wpv-map-marker]');

Where:
- wpcf-address is the address custom field that holds the value of address string. Where you should just replace wpcf-address with your original address field.

Obviously - what method should be used is depends on your requirement and how you want to display the map.

[amandaD]

Thank you - the shortcode solution worked perfectly (after a bit of tinkering).