Search towns or suburbs

[Petonii]

Hello fellow programmers,

I am new to this site and was looking around for some good advice or if i am lucky some help.

I am starting off a basic local business search project just for some practice.

I need some tutorial or some example code. I don't want to waste too much time for others so ill make this quick.

http://au.local.yahoo.com/ This link shows 2 search bars. Both do not need to be filled to search for a business. I would like to know how to do this. How to label each business with a postcode so the search result can find it. Also would like to know how the include surrounding suburbs work as well and how to label a business to show up with that option ticked as well.

I hope this is clear. If any fingers can be pointed to a very clear source that would be great. I understand some coding but not advanced enough to write it from scratch.

Thanks in advanced

Peace >.<

[dafodil]

Hello fellow programmers,

I am new to this site and was looking around for some good advice or if i am lucky some help.

I am starting off a basic local business search project just for some practice.

I need some tutorial or some example code. I don't want to waste too much time for others so ill make this quick.

http://au.local.yahoo.com/ This link shows 2 search bars. Both do not need to be filled to search for a business. I would like to know how to do this. How to label each business with a postcode so the search result can find it. Also would like to know how the include surrounding suburbs work as well and how to label a business to show up with that option ticked as well.

I hope this is clear. If any fingers can be pointed to a very clear source that would be great. I understand some coding but not advanced enough to write it from scratch.

Thanks in advanced

Peace >.<

Try this link it's a good learning site with everything you need: www.w3schools.com

Since you are creating a web project:
You start by designing everything in html
Then you use server side programming languages to make those designs interactive... (Select from the web development languages available like php and asp)

[mwasif]

Also would like to know how the include surrounding suburbs work as well and how to label a business to show up with that option ticked as well.

To search the surrounding you need to have a latitude and longitude database containing the lat/long for all the cities. First find the lat/lon of the trageted city/location and then using a formula (you can find this on Google) get the cities in a specific radius.