show joomla article based on user's location

Question

I have joomla articles, each with latitude and longitude numbers (each article represents an adress).

I want to show articles based on the user's location, so if he uses the website through his smart phone, computer or tablet it should show the articles within a certain radius.

Is there a specific plugin which enables me to do this?

Thanks in advance.

Prastow

Answer 1

Prastow, I don't think you will get an build-in extension which works exactly as per your requirement. If you are Joomla developer you can do this easily. Just get the latitude and longitude of the user using google api & check the same that is stored in your Joomla database #__conent table. Show the matched article to the user. You can either create a new view or override existing com_content view. I think this won't take more than 3 hrs of basic coding.