It really depends on how much you want to do server side and how much on the client.
If your data base is not all that big, you can wrap it all up in an XML file, read it into the client, and do everything with Javascript on the client. e.g. Mike Williams' excellent tutorial in which he uses GDownloadUrl to load the xml file; http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_map3.htm . A more complex example using GXmlHttp (it doesn't really matter which you use) is at http://www.lanerealty.com.au/HomesMap.html There are more simple examples in http://econym.org.uk/gmap/ for reading in RSS and KML files with coordinates, but I found them unduly restrictive in not allowing flexibility of displaying your data on the map. If you want to do more on the server side, you can get your perl/php to wrap the requested response in XML/KML for you to interpret or directly display on a Maps API map or just produce a fresh html page. I've assumed here that since you have a 'fixed' database that you have already geocoded the locations and are dealing with latitude and longitude directly. Anyway, give it a try and if/when you get into trouble, post a link to your page on this discussion group and bounce it off the assembled gurus. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
