Zip Code Lookup

Hi guys,
Ok, I've had a project dumped on me that is ridiculously
complicated given my level of ability. I've explained to them that
I am NOT the guy for this. They're in a real jam though, so while
they're trying to find someone else I told them I'd see what I can
do.
Basically, it's a political action page. You watch a short
flash video, then click a button to send email to the candidates
running to represent you. It's been built (kind of) using PHP by
someone else, but has so many bugs (and I don't know anything about
PHP) that I think my only hope is to try and re-write the whole
thing in Coldfusion (which I know the basics of).
Thankfully the mySQL database is already done and working. I
just need to build the pages. The real sticking point: on the "tell
a candidate" page, they want a user to fill out their street
address, click a button, and have the application automatically
find their full zipcode and then display a page listing the
candidates running to represent that district (this is limited to
one state, thank god).
I can handle the database-driven stuff to return email links
for their candidates (I think)... but how can I use Coldfusion to
find a person's full zipcode based on their street address?
Thanks for ANY ideas... the more dumbed-down the better!
Joe

It's no big deal, StearmanDriver. You already have a good
solution. Yahoo!
All you have to do is
get a
Yahoo App ID. You can then use it with, for example, the cfhttp
tag to get the zip code. The service is free, too.
Suppose your Yahoo App ID is
vmuNNhtDEr32Ms8pmwEyvoAdClQQabcploMMth2iY_GXMK456Mruav56P09iuQk7.BBFtC--.
(This is a fake ID I've just created to illustrate the process. But
it is similar to the one Yahoo will send you.) Suppose also that
you wished to know the zip code of the Hilton Garden Inn Hotel in
Commercial Street, Portland, Maine.
The result, cfhttp.FileContent, is a short XML document.
However, it gives you more bang for your buck
(see actual result below). It includes, besides the zip, the
latitude and longitude of the place.
To get the zip code, simply parse the XML. The complete code
is something like the one below.
actual result, cfhttp.fileContent:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<ResultSet xmlns:xsi="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="urn:yahoo:maps" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:yahoo:maps
http://api.local.yahoo.com/MapsService/V1/GeocodeResponse.xsd">
<Result precision="address">
<Latitude>43.657646</Latitude>
<Longitude>-70.250313</Longitude>
<Address>65 Commercial St</Address>
<City>Portland</City>
<State>ME</State>
<Zip>04101-4703</Zip>
<Country>US</Country>
</Result>
</ResultSet>

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>
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Regards,
M Tajuddin
web: http://tajuddin.whitepagesbd.com

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