On Jan 13, 2011, at 8:53 PM, Daevid Vincent wrote:
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Subject: A bad design decision or pure genius?
Hey Everyone,
I have a question about php & javascript... Yes I know this forum is
for php BUT I needed an opinion on where to look for stuff...
I have a application that I'm working on that uses google maps to
display interactive maps (using javascript) on the website. I
now have
the need to display multiple maps on the same page and from
what I can
tell I have to create new instances and variables for all of them...
What I'm wondering is since I know very little javascript
would it be
bad to create a PHP function to write the java code for the proper
number of maps I need to display? The map info is being
pulled from a
database where events are being added and could contain 2 or
200 maps...
Or should I learn javascript and figure out how to create a loop in
there so that I can just loop it in the java and not repeat code?
Thanks for any assistance you can give!
Jason Pruim
pruimj@xxxxxxxxx
Not sure why you would need to show more than a single map at any
given
time. Therefore why not use PHP to show a list of possible maps and
when
the user clicks on one, use AJAX to populate a single map on demand?
Hey Daevid,
That is a great idea... The only issue is i don't know ajax yet :)
But it's on my list of things to do this year!
What I ended up doing is just putting a static image in which is
generated automatically by google on the fly using the GPS coordinates
that I supply, it places a marker on the image, and then it links into
a full map where you can pan, zoom, get directions etc. etc.
So just needed to think out side the box a little bit!
And... For the archives... YES that would have been a bad design
decision. It was a crutch to get me through until I can learn more
javascript and start mastering that.
Thanks for the help! :)
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