Help needed in ImageMap Mouseover

[Steve Lime]

It would be helpfull to see the output from MapServer in this case. Can you post the HTML result (as an attachment) or send a link?

Steve

>>> "Pratap" <dwija_dey at rediffmail.com> 05/25/06 8:07 AM >>>
  

Hi
  List and Steve Lime
    Plz. donot ignore this message.
   I have posted a message for a help in imagemap though, i have not get any reply. I am trying to imulate the mouseover in browser/mapserver from http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/imagemaps/?searchterm=imagemap also i am keen to know from steve how to implement the mouseover that i saw in Steve limes SHPXY example in 
http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/mapserv48?map=/usr/local/www/docs_maps/eco/rsg/search/search_example.map&qlayer=county&mode=nquery&searchmap=true .

 My quries are given below(Specially to Steve for the example that he has implemented). Hope this time i will get solutions from Steve/List.
Thanks in advance
With Regards.
Pratap
 
On Fri, 12 May 2006 Pratap wrote :
>
>Hi
>I am trying to emulate imagemap with mapserver from the example given in http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/imagemaps/?searchterm=imagemap
>I am tring to display a field from my shapefile.dbf on mouseover tooltip using the functionality of the above URL. But neither i am getting any error nor tooltip/mouseover functionality.
>
>   My Mapfile for imagemap is:
>   .........
>   LAYER
>      NAME "city"
>      TYPE POINT
>      STATUS ON
>      DATA "city"
>      CLASSITEM "name"
>       CLASS
>         NAME "CITY NAME"
>         EXPRESSION /A*/
>         COLOR 255 0 0
>         OUTLINECOLOR 255 0 0
>       END
>       TEMPLATE "bodytemplate.html"
>       HEADER "imapheader.html"
>       FOOTER "imapfooter.html"
>   END
>............
>
>The content of template file bodytemplate.html is.
><area shape="circle" coords="[shpxy precision=0 proj=image yf=",4" xf=","]" href="http://my.url/mypage.cfm?region=[name]" title="[name]" alt="[name]">
>
>Q.1)What will be the exact value of href above?
>
>The content of template file imapheader.html is.
><map id="mymap" name="mymap">
>
>Q.2)What will be the value of id and name above?
>
>The content of template file imapheader.html is.
></map>
>
>I am also passing layer=city mode=nquery and searchmap=true from my .phtml file to mapserver
>
>Q.3) I am not using separate imagemap mapfile. Whether it is needed? what will be its contents, where i should
>place it ? and i am using Gmap's PHP/Mapscript engine.
>
>Can anyone please tell me where is the problem? Also any info on this topic will highly appreciated.
>Thanks in advance for any help.
>With regards.
>Pratap