[mapserver-users] Displaying query result on the same page?

[kreshna_iceheart at yahoo.com]

Thank you, Steve.

It seems frames and/or AJAX are the only way to display query result on the same page when using CGI MapServer, am I correct?

-Kresh


--- On Sun, 4/19/09, Steve Lime <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us> wrote:

> From: Steve Lime <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us>
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Displaying query result on the same page?
> To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org, kreshna_iceheart at yahoo.com
> Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009, 1:48 AM
> For frames you just set the form
> target to the frame of interest. You're code is quite
> close.
> 
> Still another option is to use AJAX/AJAST. You issue the
> query via an XMLHttpRequest and get the
> results back in a javascript string or object that you can
> direct the contents of to a container (e.g. div)
> on your page. 
> 
> Steve
> 
> >>> "kreshna_iceheart at yahoo.com"
> <kreshna_iceheart at yahoo.com>
> 04/18/09 10:37 AM >>>
> 
> I hope this newbie question doesn't bother you.
> 
> See, I want to display query result on my map page, but if
> I use query mode, the query result replaces the whole page.
> 
> As workaround, I redirect the query result to a pop-up page
> using the following JavaScript:
> 
>         function toFrame() {
>            if
> (document.mapserv.mode.value ==
>  "query" || document.mapserv.mode.value ==
>  "nquery") {
>              
> document.mapserv.target = "_blank";
>            } else {
>              
> document.mapserv.target = "_self";
>            }
>         }
> 
> However, I'd also like to display the query result as part
> of the page (for example, on the lower right of the page),
> without replacing the entire page with the query result.
> 
> Is there any way to do such thing using CGI MapServer? Or
> is PHP MapScript the only way to do it?
> 
> I'm thinking about using HTML frames, but I'm still at loss
> to redirect the query result to a particular frame.
> 
> Many thanks,
> -Kresh
> 
> 
> 
> 
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