Easy Address Field plugin for Craft CMS 3.x

The only address field you need

Requirements

This plugin requires Craft CMS 3.0.0-RC1 or later.

Installation

To install the plugin, follow these instructions.

1. Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

    cd /path/to/project
   

2. Then tell Composer to load the plugin:

    composer require studioespresso/craft-easyaddressfield
   

3. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for "Easy Address Field".

Settings

You can choose which geocoding API the plugin will use when you have geocoding enabled for your fields. Options are:

• OpenStreetMap's Nominatim (default, no configuration, but very strict rate limits)
• Google Maps (requires an API key, see below)

Google Maps API

To enable geolocating and custom marker placement, you need to provide a Google Maps API key.

1. Sign in to Google's developers console
2. Create a new project
3. Enable the Google Maps Geocoding API and the Google Static Maps API

🚨 Important 🚨:

Google's Geocoding API does not support HTTP referrer restrictions. Make sure the API key you are using does not have these set.

API Errors

When devMode is enabled, any errors returned by Google's API will show an exception so you can clearly see what's going wrong. With devMode disabled, any errors will be logged to Craft's web.log.

GeoCoding for Craft Address elements

Since Craft 5, Craft has a built-in element for Addresses, but no way to get coordinates for addresses out of the box. When you install Easy Address Field, you can enable GeoCoding for Craft Address elements. This will add a latitude and longitude values to each Address element. You can enable this feature in the plugin settings.

Template variables

Printing address values

You can access the values from your address field in Twig through the following variables:

field.name
field.street
field.street2
field.postalCode
field.state
field.country // returns the country code
field.getCountryName(craft.app.locale) // returns the coutry's full name, in the country's locale
field.latitude
field.longitude
field.getDirectionsUrl() // get a directions link to the given address

Custom GeoCoding services

Out of the box, the plugin comes with support for geocoding with OpenStreetMap's Nominatim service and Google. If you'd like to use a different service, you can create a custom service by creating a new class that implements the studioespresso\easyaddressfield\services\geocoders\BaseGeoCoder interface.

Once you created your geocoder, register it with the following event:

use studioespresso\easyaddressfield\events\RegisterGeocoderEvent;
use studioespresso\easyaddressfield\services\GeoLocationService;

Event::on(
   GeoLocationService::class, 
   GeoLocationService::EVENT_REGISTER_GEOCODERS, 
   function (RegisterGeocoderEvent $event) {
       $event->geoCoders['your-service'] = YourGeoCoder::class;
});

Upgrading from Craft 4 to Craft 5

getDirectionsUrl()

If you're using the getDirectionsUrl() function on craft.address, you'll now need to call the function on the field itself instead of the on the plugin's Twig variable.

getStaticMap() & getStaticMapRaw()

These functions have been removed from the plugin, you'll need to replace these yourself.

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