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Aled Evans
3,163 PointsHow do they do it?
Okay, I have signed up to Treehouse and would like to build a website designed to "Tracking Santa".
My goal is to use google maps and then add custom markers on the map. Now last year google had these markers appear at certain times, along with something saying;
Current location: "Current City" Presents Delivered "Number of presents delivered" Time until next location "Time" Next location "city"
All details in "" where replaced with live info. Now how do they do it?
Would they use PHP or something else?
So basically what I'm asking is how would I go about getting information to be displayed at specific date and time?
3 Answers
Aled Evans
3,163 PointsThanks for the reply! Do you know how it would be done with PHP? Would they just check a database every... and show info?
Tristan Gaebler
6,204 PointsI don't know how that would be done with php. You'll need to ask someone else.
Sean T. Unwin
28,690 PointsThe Build an Interactive Website course has sections on Google Maps.
Read and experiment with the Google Developers Maps API.
Good luck on your quest!
Aled Evans
3,163 PointsOkay I will check it out. Thanks the both of you for the help.
Tristan Gaebler
6,204 PointsTristan Gaebler
6,204 PointsHTML/CSS and Javascript is what your going to need. You should go through the front-end development track. Then maybe learn Ruby or PHP.