I have a submit button on a form that says this:
<input type="submit" name="add_submit" onclick="return getCoord()" value="Add Location" />
Two hidden input fields like this:
<input id="long" name="long" type="hidden" value="" />
<input id="lat" name="lat" type="hidden" value="" />
The script looks like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
function getCoord() {
address = document.getElementById('street').value + " " + document.getElementById('city').value + " " + document.getElementById('state').value + " " + document.getElementById('zip').value;
console.log(address);
var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
geocoder.geocode( { 'address': address}, function(results, status) {
if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
var latitude = results[0].geometry.location.lat();
var longitude = results[0].geometry.location.lng();
document.getElementById('lat').value = latitude;
document.getElementById('long').value = longitude;
}
});
}
</script>
on the php
post:
$new_long = $database -> escape_value($_POST['long']);
$new_lat = $database -> escape_value($_POST['lat']);
I want the JS function to fill out the value of the long
and lat
fields BEFORE the form submits; then on the php
post I want to grab the input field -- but it returns blank. Is there a typo a problem with logic?
Note: I confirmed the address is being logged in the JS console correctly.
EDIT: I am actually getting a DB query fail error but it SEEMS the result of that is blank long
lat
entries. These coordinates are being put into a DB.