<div>Albert:</div>
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<div>You load the mapserver information into your html template, using a set of hidden variables that mapserver CGI uses and returns. (this is a very simple manner to say). you can take a look at the mapserver CGI reference documentation
<a href="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/cgi/referencemanual-all-pages">http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/cgi/referencemanual-all-pages</a> and the Mapserver Tutorial <a href="http://hypnos.cbs.umn.edu/tutorial/">
http://hypnos.cbs.umn.edu/tutorial/</a>.</div>
<div>if you want to use just mapserver CGI for your application, you'll probably need some javascript code to manage your app.</div>
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<div>Hope this helps</div>
<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Luis<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">2006/7/6, Frank Warmerdam <<a href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com">warmerdam@pobox.com</a>>:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Albert Anderson wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> I am using a book for exmaples for creating map files and html
<br>> documents. In the book it shows you how to create a html templates and<br>> get the information from the mapserver to load in the html document. So<br>> basically you have a blank html with a submit button that you click. It
<br>> then loads the html template with the mapserver information.<br>> The question I have is how do you load the mapserver information in the<br>> html automacitly without using a template and click a button? It loads
<br>> the information up when you click on web link to that web page.<br>> Would that be something like javascript calling for the map server?<br>> Where do I start? Can anyone help me?<br><br>Albert,<br><br>I'm not a great web developer, but I think the example "initialize" form is
<br>just pushing a bunch of hidden form variables into the url. For instance,<br>when I click on the initialize button for a simple example, I get an url<br>like:<br><br> <a href="http://gdal/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=%2Fu%2Fwww%2Frot_ortho%2Fdemo.map&zoomsize=2">
http://gdal/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=%2Fu%2Fwww%2Frot_ortho%2Fdemo.map&zoomsize=2</a><br><br>The map, and zoomsize variables are being set from forms variables. You<br>can just do the same thing in a direct link to the mapserv cgi url.
<br><br>Best regards,<br>--<br>---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------<br>I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, <a href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com">warmerdam@pobox.com
</a><br>light and sound - activate the windows | <a href="http://pobox.com/~warmerdam">http://pobox.com/~warmerdam</a><br>and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGF, <a href="http://osgeo.org">http://osgeo.org
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