If you run an online business, obviously you wouldn’t have failed to check your analytic every now and then to analyze the customer inflow and the media they favor to visit your site. And in majority of cases you might have observed that it is the mobile devices. What do you infer from this? Mobile devices are replacing desktop systems as they help customers access any website even on the go.

Earlier browsers did not support HTML5 File API, so normally people would use flash or Java Applets to validate file format and sizes in HTML upload forms, and most of us preferred to skip the client part letting server handle the problem.

In previous article I discussed about loading the Google map on a HTML page, adding-removing the markers and displaying info windows. In this article we are moving to the next step, here we are going to load markers from PHP generated XML file, and we will edit/save marker information into the database, finally creating a total custom map for the website.

I wanted to create my own custom Google map for my other website, so I’ve been playing with Google Map JavaScript API v3 lately. I wanted to add some basic functionality to the map, where I could add/remove markers, as well as save marker with some information in the database. Since most of us use jQuery in our websites, I have also added jQuery support for some events and Ajax requests.