You can now leave comments and feedback on the site once again. Commenting had been shut down due to a hacking/page-rank hijacking attempt on the site.

Comments have been disabled this site temporarily as I believe there was some sort of XSS hack attempt on the site. This may have been done by posting URLS on the comments. Once the necessary precautions are in place comment will be enabled again.

QiblaLocator now supports URL Params. With this you will now be able to create a link to qiblalocator to have it open up at your specified location. This will surely come in handy when you need to send someone a link to show them the qibla at a sepecific location.

The supported params are ‘latitude’, ‘longitude’, ‘zoom’, and ‘address’.

Use the following format to create your own links.

http://www.qiblalocator.com/?param=value&param=value&param=value

? signifies the start of the paramaters
& separates the parameters
param is the parameter name you want to pass i.e., latitude, longitude, zoom and address
value is the value you assign the parameters

Latitude and Longitude params are floating point integers
zoom accepts only integer values
address accepts strings

The following link takes you to the Holy Ka’aba in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
http://www.qiblalocator.com/?latitude=21.42252&longitude=39.82621&zoom=12
Switch to the Satellite view to see the Ka’aba

That’s right. What you’re seeing is the new qiblalocator blog. I’ve had almost no time in recent months to work on the site. But the response I’ve seen from you all is phenomenal. So I’ve decided that I will dedicate more of my free time towards this site. Insha’Allah.

One of the first things I plan to add to the site is a FAQ section. I simply can’t go through all the comments especially when a lot of them have the same questions. Hopefully this will help. More features will follow insha’Allah.