[mapserver-users] PHP, HOW??: Returning Results to Multiple Windows

[Jan Hartmann]

One way of doing this is creating a submit-form in each window, each calling
a different PHP script. If the first window has a form called Form1 (for map
results) and the second window Form2 (for query output), you can code both
forms as follows:

<form name=form1 action=<your PHP=mapserver-script> method=POST>
<input type=hidden name=extent value=...>
<...>
</form>

<form name=form2 action =<your PHP-query-result script> method=POST>
<input type=hidden name=myvariable1 value=...>
<...>
</form>

If both windows are in a frameset like:
<frameset>
	<frame name=window1 src=window1.html>
	<frame name=window2 src=window2.html>
</frameset>

you can send both forms to the server with this button:

<button onclick="window1.form1.submit();window2.form2.submit()">

The form variables are available to the PHP-scripts in the predefined $_POST
array (e.g. $_POST["extent"], $_POST["myvariable1"]). They can be used to
generate response pages which will be sent back to the calling windows.

Hope this helps.

Jan Hartmann
Department of Geography
University of Amsterdam
jhart at frw.uva.nl

PS In older versions of PHP the $_POST array is known as $HTTP_POST_VARS. It
does not have global scope like $_POST. The traditional way of reading FORM
variables into PHP (just using global variables with the same name, like
$extent, $myvariable1) is strongly discouraged for security reasons and will
be dropped in the future.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
[mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu]On Behalf Of Hankley,
Chip
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 7:14 PM
To: MapServer List (E-mail)
Subject: [mapserver-users] PHP, HOW??: Returning Results to Multiple
Windows


Kind of a generic server side processing question.

I'm running a querybypoint operation w/ PHP MapScript. I can collect the
results in an array, highlight the selected records, etc. etc., all in the
same window. BUT, what I want to do is display the selected records in a
table in a NEW window. So... I want the server-side stuff to do something
like this.

          Receive Input
                |
                V
         Query Shapefile
                |
                V
      Return Results to Array
                |
                V
     Refresh Map in Existing Window
       (showing selected records)
                |
                V
     Display the Attributes of
     the Selected Records in a
           New Window

It's this last step that I'm having a hard time with...I would think it
should be simple. Thanks for any suggestions!

Cheers!


Chip Hankley