How to use Proximity Search

• You must have a Geocoding table. This table will be used to get Latitude and Longitude of each user according to their address (Country, state, city or Zipcode). The table must contain following columns:

  • Country (Required)
  • State (Optional)
  • City (Required in case if Zipcode column is not there)
  • Zipcode (Required in case if City column is not available in this table)
  • Latitude (Required)
  • Longitude (Required)

• You also need to create information of the following fields so that user can be searched according to given inputs:

  • Country (Required)
  • State (optional)
  • City (Required in case if Zipcode information is not there)
  • Zipcode (Required in case if City information is not available in this table)

How to Configure Plugin Params

For this version of Proximity search, you need to configure as follows:

• Select the value I have Geocoding Table in the param named User's Encoding Through.
• Then set the respective information with respective parameter. For e.g. select City information for City column etc.
• Give the Geocoding table name and column names in their respective fields.
• Save the Information.

How to search

For searching users from a particular location, User will be having a link in search panel named Set Location. By clicking over this link, a google map will appear. User can select any location from this map. After selecting the location close the map and give the distance, from which user must be searched.