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

[Steve Lime]

You can probably do it with query/browse templates but the other methods are 
more efficient and provide a better user experience and are easier to configure.

Steve

>>> On 4/20/2009 at 1:07 AM, in message
<860869.57172.qm at web110602.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>, "kreshna_iceheart at yahoo.com"
<kreshna_iceheart at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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