fter succeeding on a previous job for Vector Media Group of New York City, co-principal Matt Weinberg tapped Engaging.net to build out the ExpressionEngine back-end for a new restaurant web site, alwayshungryny.com. The job contained a particular challenge: a geographical search facility — since dubbed “Create-a-Neighborhood” — wherein Google Maps are integrated with ExpressionEngine’s search.
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The formation of a rectangle within a Google Map had already been coded using the Google Maps API; Engaging built on this, integrating a coordinates-based clause to the EE search module that limits results to the area circumscribed by the rectangle. The geography-based search results can then be mixed with keywords and any of scores of categories.
Launched in April 2009, Always Hungry is a valuable resource for New Yorkers and visitors to the city.