On 10/10/07, Tara Athan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I should have been more specific in my question. > I would like to create the textfile for the markers, titles and > descriptions dynamically from a database so that users can enter new > markers and they appear on the map with minimal intervention from me. > I was planning to do this by the following steps > 1. the user sees a map displaying the current markers from the text > file, and an HTML form, > 2. they click on the map to fill the lat lon fields in the form, > 3.they type in the title, description and select characteristics from > dropdown menus that determine the icon > 4. PHP commands are used to enter this into a database (MySQL or > PostGRES) on the server, along with an e-mail alert to the database admin > 5. at regular intervals (i.e. daily), the text file is automatically > updated from the database > > I now know how to do steps 1, 3 and 4 but I'm not so sure about 2 and > clueless about 5.
For 2 you can register a click event callback on the map, and have the callback write the lon lat values in the form. This example will certainly be helpful : <http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/click.html>. For 5 you can probably use the setTimeout() javascript func. -- Eric _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
