Place Name Lookup DLL for ASP (version 2.0)

Place Name Lookup Tool

Place Name Lookup DLL for ASP is an easy to use programming function, which allows web developers the ability to write find town type applications for ASP driven web sites.

There are many duplicated town and village names within the UK, for example there are 4 places called Chorley (Cheshire, Lancashire, Shropshire and Staffordshire), and 11 locations called Preston.

When creating a search for your site which allows the user to enter a town name, it's nice to present the user with a list of possible town and county names matching their search criteria, so that the user can refine their search by selecting the actual town they intended from a shortened list created by our software.

The Place Name Lookup DLL provides you with a function called getPlaceNames which takes a search term and returns all matching town names along with their postcode district and county name.

Example Search Using
getPlaceNames Method

<%
set obj = Server.CreateObject("PlaceNameLookup.UKPlaces")

obj.getPlaceNames("Chorley", TRUE, aResult)
%>

The sample code above will search the 26,000+ town names embedded within the DLL and return the results as an array to aResult. Each element of the array has three fields separated by a comma; you can parse the result by using the ASP split command, and use each of the three fields as you desire.

For example searching for Chorley, would return the following array elements:-

Chorley,CW5,Cheshire
Chorley,PR7,Lancashire
Chorley,WV16,Shropshire
Chorley,WS13,Staffordshire