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GLatLngBounds( ) to zoom to extent of 2 points via Google Maps API

I am trying to create a map using hte Google API that will automatically zoom to best fit two points that are provided by the user. These points are contained in a PHP variable and I have transfered them to a javascript array.

Initially I had planned to use

latlngbounds.extend(latlng[i]);

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to extend the GLatLngBounds but it did not work, nor did

var point = new GLatLng(latlng[i]); latlngbounds.extend(point);

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I keep getting this error

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User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; .NET4.0C)
Timestamp: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:18:50 UTC

Message: Invalid argument.
Line: 395
Char: 18
Code: 0
URI: http://maps.gstatic.com/intl/en_us/mapfiles/285c/maps2.api/main.js

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Zoom to extents</title>
<link href="../css/layout.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&amp;v=2&amp;sensor=false&amp;key=ABQIAAAAu6sjqcmGfoqTHmTvfkq0ChSpkSOrz0Cwg3N68il0aaFJTpnuCBQxjGoicyV8T8a1Pm6s99H3kAGuoA" type="text/javascript"></script>


<?php 
$coord1="47.6, -100.89";
$coord2="47.55, -100.88";
?>


<script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript"> 
function initialize() {
  if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) {
	map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("mapPane_gmap"));
	//map.setCenter(new GLatLng(0,0),0);
	
	var latlng= new Array(); 
	latlng[0] = "<?php echo  $coord1;?>";
	latlng[1] = "<?php echo  $coord2;?>";
	
	var latlngbounds = new GLatLngBounds( );

	for ( var i = 0; i < latlng.length; i++ ){
	  alert(latlng[i]);  
	  //latlngbounds.extend(latlng[i]);
	  var point = new GLatLng(latlng[i]);
	  latlngbounds.extend(point);
	}
	map.setCenter( latlngbounds.getCenter( ), map.getBoundsZoomLevel( latlngbounds ) );
	
	//map.setCenter(new GLatLng(47.6, -100.89), 13);
	var customUI = map.getDefaultUI();
	customUI.controls.scalecontrol = false;
	customUI.controls.menumaptypecontrol  = true;
	map.setUI(customUI);
  }
} 
</script>
</head>

<body onload="initialize()">
    <div id="mapPane_gmap" style="height:400px; width:700px; margin-left: 0px;"> 
    </div>   
</body>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
</html>

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Ray Paseur

Can't really follow all your code above, but I can offer what I hope is a little helpful. Google changed the API last summer. See if any of the ideas here are helpful:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/A_3350-Using-the-Google-Maps-API-in-PHP.html

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lvmllc

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Worked great. I just put the following in and I was good to go

var latlng = [
new google.maps.LatLng( <?php echo $coord1;?> ),
new google.maps.LatLng( <?php echo $coord2;?> )
];