How to get latitude longitude value from an address in Google Maps?

Question

I have a form which has a textfield called address . I want to get the latitude and longitude value when the user types in his address in the textbox and clicks a button. How can I do this? I have done this using PHP but I need to get the latitude and longitude using Javascript/Google API. Any link to some tutorial?

Answer 1

You'll want to create a Geocoding Request with AJAX.

Here is some more information about Geocoding requests from Google.

And here is information on AJAX from the JQuery site.