We suggest you go through this information before you read this article.
http://www.phpzipcodelocator.com/howitworks.html
That will give you a broad Idea of what this product does.
This application is useful for those who runs or manages a chain. The chain can be of stores, ATMs, branches, franchises etc. We refer the chain item as store through out this article. By using this product you facilitate the users of your website to search locate stores based on the criteria they are looking for. Most importantly they dont leave your website as the locator runs on your website. Yes.. It runs on your website, However, You dont need to download anything nor you have to install anything on the server you hosted your website. Here is a step by step procedure of how you can start using this application in 10 minutes on your website.
1) Register a user for you on www.phpzipcodelocator.com . You can opt for any of the billing plan according to your requirement. You can even go for 30 day free trial but it will only allow you to upload up to 5 locations. Once you complete your registration process including the email confirmation and payment. You will be emailed of your login info. Use that login info to log on to the admin control panel for you. You can login right from the page www.phpzipcodelocator.com
2) As soon as you login to admin control panel you will see something like this.
Watch out the circled link “Set your Domain” . It is first link in the middle menu. Please click it. You must set your domain first before you do anything else.
3) Once you go to “Set your Domain” Screen you will find a similar screen as shown below :
You have to choose from two options here. “Select your own domain” and “Run it on www.phpzipcodelocator.com”. The first option is the most widely used where you are going to run your website on your own domain e.g. www.yourcompany.com. If you want to go with that option simply enter your domain name leaving www.
Incase you dont have a domain and you want to run this locator as a standalone application slect “Run it on www.phpzipcodelocator.com”.
Once you save the options here the application is enabled to run on your domain.
3) After you enabled the application to run on your domain you need to go to the top navigation in blue where it says “Integration Code”. As soon as you move your mouse over that you will see a drop down menu. Select the first item from that menu “Copy code for V3.1″. The following screen will appear.
All you need to do is copy this code by selecting everything in the text area. Right click your mouse and press copy. You need to paste this code on your website page where you exactly want this application to appear. (To do this you need to have a little bit of knowledge of how you upload and download your html page and a basic knowledge of HTML. In case if you are using CMS like joomla or Drupal. You need to toggle to source view of your editor and paste the code and save the article).
This is all you need to integrate the application to your website.
If you still find it difficult to integrate we will be more than happy to do it on your behalf. Please contact support with your login info on phpzipcodelocator and your website’s ftp login info.
