[Mapserver-users] HTML Legends as lists

[Stephen Clark]

Liz,
Here is a link to a PHP layer menuing system that I am looking at
implementing

http://phplayersmenu.sourceforge.net/

I would appear that the PHP code could used to dynamically generate the tree
menu system you want but I have not looked too deeply into in.

Stephen


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Liz Godwin" <godwinl at agr.gc.ca>
To: <stephen.clark at focus.ca>; <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] HTML Legends as lists


> Stephen,
>
> That's nice and all, and looks like I want it, but from a first glance,
> doesn't look very dynamic based on the map object.  I don't want to have
> to manually make a legend.  It should be built from my mapfile.  I
> didn't read the article in great depth, so if I missed out on this very
> thing, I'm sorry.
>
> Liz
>
>
> >>> "Stephen Clark" <stephen.clark at focus.ca> 04/02/04 04:52PM >>>
> Liz,
>
> this may not be exactly what you want but if you want a tree to display
> the
> layers that is collapsible have a look at:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/mind/0799/htmltree/htmltree.asp
>
> Stephen
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Liz Godwin" <godwinl at agr.gc.ca>
> To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 12:16 PM
> Subject: [Mapserver-users] HTML Legends as lists
>
>
> > Hello all!
> >
> > I've been looking into making a collapsable legend.
> > I have groups of layers, each of which have detailed class
> > information.
> >
> > Now.. I can make an HTML legend work just fine.  It's the collapsing
> > that's tricky.
> >
> > Currently the HTML legend works that only the code between the
> > repeating sections is used, and only certain tags are available
> within
> > repeating sections.  These two things are preventing me from making
> this
> > an easy solution.
> >
> > I'd like to be able to create a heirachical list such that my group
> > knows that it's children are it's layers with the same group, and
> the
> > layers know which classes are their own.  The way to do this would be
> to
> > add <ul> tags around my layers and classes.  BUT I can't.
> >
> > An alternative (but to me merely a temp. workaround) to this would
> be
> > to give an identifier to each layer and class that of it's parent so
> > that it could be found using some javascript, but alas, my group
> info
> > isn't available to my layer in the HTML template file.
> >
> > Oh Mapserver Gurus...please tell me this would be something simple
> to
> > implement.  I think a lot of other people would be interested in
> this.
> > Lists are quickly becomming a popular display method in web pages
> > instead of tables.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Liz Godwin
> >
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