One of more common emails I've received over the past few months is whether or not users can submit a marker from the front-end of a Joomla site.  Well, it is now a lot closer to becoming a reality.   I have spent a few hours doing some work on this and it is now nearly complete.  The only oustanding portion to develop is the "approval" process on the back-end of Joomla.  Anyway, this blog is written to provide some insight into how it will work.

Each map can be defined to grant insert authority to Registered, Author, Editor and PUblisher user groups.  These users will then have the authority to insert markers on that specific map.  Now, front-end editting may be turned off for the entire component via the component configuration.  As of right now, that is on a component level only and may be moved to the map level.

Now, when one of the authorized user groups visits a map (through the components viewmap.html) template, a new icon will be avialable one the tool bar to submit a new marker (See the screens below).  When they click on the icon, they will then be taken to one page that enables them to enter the marker details, location and select the specific categories.  Yes, the marker locator is available on the front-end so there is no need for them to know the lat/long ... just the mailing address.  The address can be geocoded by entering the value to geocode and then clicking on the appropriate button.  Once the marker is submitted, it will then be stored in the database in an "unapproved" and "unpublished" state.

It will be the administrators responsibility on the backend to go in, review the marker submission and then change its state.   Once it has been approved and published, it will then appear on the map.   It is this approval process that still needs to be developed.  The hope is to have this wrapped up within a week or so.   

If you (subscriber or not) would like to be a beta tester for this build (once it is ready), please email me at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   I am looking for only about 3 people to help.

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