Google Maps Directions in infowindow - getting variables

The follwoing code works, the questions are:

1. Has anyone converted this to API V3?
2. How is the address variable passed to this map fro a search results page?

I am new to heavy coding and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
    <title>Directions in infowindow</title>
    <script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&amp;v=2&amp;hl=en&amp;key=" type="text/javascript"></script>
     
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id="map" style="width: 400px; height: 400px"></div>
     
    <script type="text/javascript">
    var gmarkers = [];
    var htmls = [];
    var to_htmls = [];
    var from_htmls = [];
    var i=0;
     
    function tohere(i) {
    gmarkers[i].openInfoWindowHtml(to_htmls[i]);
    }
     
    function fromhere(i) {
    gmarkers[i].openInfoWindowHtml(from_htmls[i]);
    }
     
    // Check to see if this browser can run the Google API
    if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) {
     
    // A function to create the marker and set up the event window
    function createMarker(point,name,html) {
    var marker = new GMarker(point);
     
    // The info window version with the "to here" form open
    to_htmls[i] = html + 'Directions: <b>To here</b> - <a href="javascript:fromhere(' + i + ')">From here</a>' +
    'Start address:<form action="http://maps.google.com/maps" method="get" target="_blank">' +
    '<input type="text" SIZE=40 MAXLENGTH=40 name="saddr" id="saddr" value="" />' +
    '<INPUT value="Get Directions" TYPE="SUBMIT">' +
    '<input type="hidden" name="daddr" value="' +
    point.latDegrees + ',' + point.lngDegrees + "(" + name + ")" + '"/>';
     
    // The info window version with the "to here" form open
    from_htmls[i] = html + 'Directions: <a href="javascript:tohere(' + i + ')">To here</a> - <b>From here</b>' +
    'End address:<form action="http://maps.google.com/maps" method="get"" target="_blank"> ' +
    '<input type="text" SIZE=40 MAXLENGTH=40 name="daddr" id="daddr" value="" />  ' +
    '<INPUT value="Get Directions" TYPE="SUBMIT"> ' +
    '<input type="hidden" name="saddr" value="' + point.latDegrees + ',' + point.lngDegrees + "(" + name + ")" + '"/> ';
     
    // The inactive version of the direction info
    html = html + ' Directions: <a href="javascript:tohere('+i+')"> To here</a> - <a href="javascript:fromhere('+i+')"> From here</a> ';
     
    GEvent.addListener(marker, "click", function() {
    marker.openInfoWindowHtml(html);
    });
    gmarkers[i] = marker;
    htmls[i] = html;
    i++;
    return marker;
    }
     
    // Display the map, with some controls and set the initial location
    var map = new GMap(document.getElementById("map"));
    map.addControl(new GLargeMapControl());
    map.addControl(new GMapTypeControl());
    map.setCenter(new GLatLng(42.8746889,-92.396934), 16);
     
    // Set up a marker with an info window
    var point = new GLatLng(42.8746889,-92.396934);
    var marker = createMarker(point,'home','<b>MIA Hq</b><br/>1221 County Highway V21,<br/> Waverly,<br/> IA<br/> 50677-8904<hr />')
    map.addOverlay(marker);
    }
    </script>
    </body>
    </html>

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