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Address Validation using the Google Maps API
body {
font: 12px verdana;
background-color: #5C87B2;
}
form {
max-width: 400px;
padding: 15px;
background-color: white;
}
label, input[type="text"], textarea {
display:block;
width: 100%;
margin-bottom: 6px;
}
input[type="button"] {
display:block;
width: 80px;
padding:3px;
margin-top:15px;
}
label.error {
color: #CC0000;
}
<html>
<head>
<title>Example Form </title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.7/jquery.validate.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<label for="Name">Name</label>
<input id="Name" type="text" />
<label for="Address">Address</label>
<textarea id="Address" cols="40" rows="5"></textarea>
<input id="Submit" value="Submit" type="button" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
// The following code show execute only after the page is fully loaded
$(document).ready(function () {
if ($('form').exists()) {
// Enable jQuery Validation for the form
$('form').validate({ onkeyup: false });
// Add validation rules to the Address field
$("#Address").rules("add", {
fulladdress: true,
required: true,
messages: {
fulladdress: "Google cannot locate this address."
}
});
// This function will be executed when the form is submitted
function FormSubmit() {
$.submitForm = true;
if (!$('form').valid()) {
return false;
} else {
if ($("#Address").data("IsChecking") == true) {
$("#Address").data("SubmitForm", true);
return false;
}
alert('Form is valid!');
// return true; // Uncomment to submit the form.
return false; // Supress the form submission for test purpose.
}
}
// Attach the FormSubmit function to the Submit button
if ($('#Submit').exists()) {
$("#Submit").click(FormSubmit);
}
// Execute the ForumSubmit function when the form is submitted
$('form').submit(FormSubmit);
}
});
// Create a jQuery exists method
jQuery.fn.exists = function () { return jQuery(this).length > 0; }
// Address jQuery Validator
function AddressValidator(value, element, paras) {
// Convert the value variable into something a bit more descriptive
var CurrentAddress = value;
/* If the address is blank, then this is for the required validator to deal with. */
if (value.length == 0) {
return true;
}
/* If we've already validated this address, then just return the previous result */
if ($(element).data("LastAddressValidated") == CurrentAddress) {
return $(element).data("IsValid");
}
/* We have a new address to validate, set the IsChecking flag to true and set the LastAddressValidated to the CurrentAddress */
$(element).data("IsChecking", true);
$(element).data("LastAddressValidated", CurrentAddress);
/* Google Maps doesn't like line-breaks, remove them */
CurrentAddress = CurrentAddress.replace(/\n/g, "");
/* Create a new Google geocoder */
var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
geocoder.geocode({ 'address': CurrentAddress }, function (results, status) {
/* The code below only gets run after a successful Google service call has completed. Because this is an asynchronous call, the validator has already returned a 'true' result to supress an error message and then cancelled the form submission. The code below needs to fetch the true validation from the Google service and then re-execute the jQuery form validator to display the error message. Futhermore, if the form was
being submitted, the code below needs to resume that submit. */
// Google reported a valid geocoded address
if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
// Get the formatted Google result
var address = results[0].formatted_address;
/* Count the commas in the fomatted address. This doesn't look great, but it helps us understand how specific the geocoded address is. For example, "CA" will geocde to "California, USA". */
numCommas = address.match(/,/g).length;
/* A full street address will have at least 3 commas. Alternate techniques involve fetching the address_components returned by Google Maps. That code looked even more ugly. */
if (numCommas >= 3) {
/* Replace the first comma found with a line-break */
address = address.replace(/, /, "\n");
/* Remove USA from the address (remove this, if this is important to you) */
address = address.replace(/, USA$/, "");
// Set the textarea value to the geocoded address
$(element).val(address);
// Cache this latest result
$(element).data("LastAddressValidated", address);
// We have a valid geocoded address
$(element).data("IsValid", true);
} else {
/* Google Maps was able to geocode the address, but it wasn't specific enough (not enough commas) to be a valid street address. */
$(element).data("IsValid", false);
}
// Otherwise the address is invalid
} else {
$(element).data("IsValid", false);
}
// We're no longer in the midst of validating
$(element).data("IsChecking", false);
// Get the parent form element for this address field
var form = $(element).parents('form:first');
/* This code is being run after the validation for this field, if the form was being submitted before this validtor was called then we need to re-submit the form. */
if ($(element).data("SubmitForm") == true) {
form.submit();
} else {
// Re-validate this property so we can return the result.
form.validate().element(element);
}
});
/* The Address validator always returns 'true' when initially called. The true result will be return later by the geocode function (above) */
return true;
}
// Define a new jQuery Validator method
$.validator.addMethod("fulladdress", AddressValidator);
@RonKinel
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I there a way to use this for a long list of addresses?

@DarkMatterMatt
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DarkMatterMatt commented Feb 22, 2017

Why does the "Name" field validate using your validator? I copied your fiddles, linked them into the html document (using <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="fiddle.css"><script src="fiddle.js"></script>). When I enter a name and click out of the text box, it turns into an address. Should this be happening?

@usamamashkoor
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usamamashkoor commented Aug 19, 2017

Hi in this code if i give address value a then it returns me this address

Augsburg, Germany

but i have given the address value a it should return error saying the address is not valid.

Can you please check this..

Thanks

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