On Jun 28, 6:28 am, doug <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm just getting started on adding a Google map element to our > website. Reading through all of the posts the perceived wisdom seems > to be to write a PHP function to extract all of the marker info from a > database table and build an XML file.
Not really a file, dynamically created xml on demand. > To display the map the data can > then read back in from the XML through a JS function. > > If the database gets updated should the XML file be recreated and > users only see the pre-prepared XML? Or should I run the extract to > create an session based XML file? Doing it this way makes it almost > real-time and allows me to filter the data down to what's appropriate > for the user. That is the best way for xml. > > One of the systems I've seen runs the SQL and creates a JS module from > it. It's really cumbersome but is this the best way? I don't know what that means. There have been a number of discussions on this group regarding the efficiency of xml vs. json. Is that what you mean? Or are you talking about creating a "page", which would lose the ability to just refresh the map. -- Larry > > Your guidance would be most appreciated. > > Regards > Doug -- 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.
