Excellent - thanks - will give it a go.

On Mar 15, 5:21 pm, Brak <[email protected]> wrote:
> I noticed you are attaching the event javascript to an onclick
> attribute on your button, then passing your marker object as a
> concatenated string into the saveData function. There's a few problems
> with this. Firstly, you should be using DOM event listeners instead of
> old-world events attached via element attributes. Secondly, by passing
> your marker object as a string, the code can't tell what it is. It
> would be better to add an event listener to the form's 'onSubmit'
> event, then bind the marker object to 'this' so you can refer to it
> more easily in your saveData function. This method also allows you to
> consolidate all your javascript into one place, instead of having it
> embedded inside your HTML and strings.
>
> On Mar 9, 1:42 pm, kathb4 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I almost have this but not quite. Being a newbie I think I am lost in
> > my objects, arrays and globals in V3.
>
> > I can place a marker on the map with a double click. It then brings up
> > an infowindow with a form, which, if you click save,  the form params
> > are passed to an ajax which inserts them into a db and prints them at
> > the bottom of the page. All well and good.
>
> > But...
> > Multiple markers are allowed/created.  I think I am tracking them
> > correctly as the infowindow displays the index number I have
> > assigned.  When a user submits the infowindow form I want the marker
> > to change.
>
> > But I can't seem to pass the marker object through the form and back
> > to the map such that I can change the marker.setIcon once the data has
> > been saved. I can't pass the marker object via
>
> > <input type='button' value='Save & Close' onclick='saveData("+marker
> > +")'/>
>
> > and the marker is not reachable as a global variable because if I set
> > it as a global variable my infowindows always come up attached to the
> > last marker inserted.
>
> >http://trees-2010-dev.test.www.nhm.ac.uk/test2.php
>
> > I think it has something to do with the markerArray but for the life
> > of me I've surfed all day and can't figure it out - thanks so much for
> > any help.
>
>

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