On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Steven Headley wrote:
>
> > I have a question related to image mapping backend database information
> > I hope someone can help me with. I have a customer who wants to
> > graphically display his sales force within a certain area of the city
> > over the web. Therefore if he wanted to see the concentration of his
> > sales force in the city he would click on the button and all salesmen
> > within the city limits would show up, maybe with little flags denoting
> > the sales people. Queries could be performed so that only sales people
> > with certain skill set would show up. Clicking on the flag would yield
> > the name and address of the sales person. I would like to know how
> > something like this could be accomplished using the linux operating
> > system and mysql, since that is my operating system and database of
> > choice. Price is an issue but will not be the deal breaker. I would like
> > to keep cost down, but I also want to put out a competitive product.
You need a programmer. You should, everyone should, have a programmer on
staff who could do this job. That doesn't mean that said programmer would do
it. But such a programmer will be there to get those jobs done by himself or
others and he will always be there to maintain and modify as needed. So few
agencies do this. Finally though it seems people are beginning to realize the
web is more than just blinking graphics.
Linux and mysql are not the issue. It is a unix programming job as opposed to
a windows job. Sounds like excellent choice of hardware/software though.
You would use the perl DBI module. And you should be using mod_perl as it
sounds great but I haven't used it yet. PHP as someone mentioned has always
had great things said about it.
It really sounds like a good job. You would get X-Y coordinates when the map
is clicked on and that would then determine what action to take. If you have to
create images on the fly .... well you can do some simple stuff with the GD
library. Here is a very simple example page I created:
http://www.joespizza.com/cgi-bin/gd_abc.cgi
I hard code the date (grabbed as program works).
peter
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