Recommend an optician

[John Smith]

OK, This is probably the most requested feature of the group, and one which we have felt that we cannot provide.

But we've turned the tables, and are now providing the facility to recommend an optician.

You'll see comments from the recommending member(s), the address and a nice scrollable Google map.

So please go away and have a play, and let me know what you think.

All data needs to be checked and sanitised before it will appear, so please don't worry if it takes an hour or two for your recommendation to show up! (I hope to fix this sometime )

Let's get helping each other!

Just visit the members-only section (the red link from the home page)

[John Smith]

Ok, there're something REALLY odd going on here.

This feature works fine when using Firefox, but does odd things in Internet Explorer. Could anyone who's used it already let me know if they can see the maps when clicking on an optician's name... and which browser they're using?

Ta.

John

p.s. You can still use it to recommend, just not to see the pretty maps - unless you use a non-Microsoft browser, anyway!

p.p.s. This is doubly odd, as the PHP code works, so has no errors (?!) and the maps using the same code work on the event pages!

[Andrew MacLean]

I am happy to recommend my optician (I used to see the Contact lens clinic at Gartnavel, but for my specs I now see a high street optician who is very experienced at prescribing for KC eyes, pre-and post graft).

I did try to log onto the members page, but your system wouldn't let me!

Andrew

[John Smith]

Well, now you've been reminded of the correct password, hopefully you'll now be able to do so!

[Andrew MacLean]

Thanks John

I'm just blushing quietly to myself here, but I never said I was good at using the www.

I think it was Samuel Johnstone who once compared a woman preaching to a dog walking on its hind legs: he said that you should marvel that the event was possible rather than criticize the style with which it was accomplished.

I think that the same standard ought to apply to middle aged Presbyterian Clergymen using computers!

Andrew

[Kathy Hobkirk]

I tried to log on to the members page but it wouldn't let me.

Kathy

[John Smith]

Just a general reminder that to log in to the member's only section, you need to use the user/password printed in the KC group newsletter.

Your forum login only currently works on the forum, but it will be more general in the future.

If you are a member of the KC group and need the password, just email or PM me. Make sure you tell me your full name though please, so I can look you up!

[John Smith]

Well the problems accessing the recommendations system using Internet Explorer have now been resolved (phew ), so I hereby announce it. Again!

Please let me know if you have any problems.

[Andrew MacLean]

John

I am not clever enough to wrestle with Internet Explorer, so I use Safari, the embedded browser in Mac OSX. The map shows wonderfully well, but it has moved the optician from the corner of Wilson Street and Glassford Street (where it was when I walked past the day before yesterday} to the corner of wilson Street and Hutcheson Street.



Andrew

[John Smith]

Well, Safari is indeed a good browser; not littered with the bugs which plague IE. Still, it's not as bad as it was!

I've got the builders back and moved 20/20 left a bit for you. It's hard work editing coordinates to 5 decimal places of latitude and longitude, you know!