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Interactive Maps with PHP
Pablo Monroy D'Croz
I'm working to develope a web-based Geographical Information System (GIS)
and one of the big problems I had was to write an easy algorithm to zoom a portion
of a map.
First of all I tried to use Server Side Maps, but I found that they need a
Perl script with too many lines of code. So I came to phpbuilder and found an
article from Rasmus Lerdorf : Creating
Dynamic Images with PHP that shows how useful PHP and the GD library could
be for that purpose. Thanx Rasmus!
I'll explain a method to zoom a portion of an image by using PHP and gif files.
The first step is to generate a map in its big size (in my example a 747x360
pixels gif called caligran.gif), then I resize the map to its small size
(200x96 gif called cali.gif). It's very important to work with gif files
because GD library can manipulate only those image types.
We need three files to work besides the gif images. The first file called map.html
has the small map and its code is:
<HTML>
<HEAD></HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#CCCCCC#">
<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="ampliacion.php3">
<INPUT TYPE="IMAGE" SRC="cali.gif" NAME="mapa" BORDER="0">
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>
The principal purpose of this file is to transmit the coordinates where the
user clicks on the small map.
Here, the most important tag is
[ Next Page ]
<INPUT TYPE="IMAGE" .... >
On a browser that supports this tag, the image is displayed. Clicking
on any part of the image is equivalent to clicking on a Submit button. If
NAME
is mapa, the values mapa_x and
mapa_y are transmitted
to ampliacion.php3 through normal form and URL encoding. These two fields
contain the coordinates where the user clicked.
| Comments: | ||
| RE: Performance with BIG images? | Don Deskins | 07/11/07 13:27 |
| how i use map in php | dinesh | 06/28/05 06:48 |
| can't remove border | lakhbir | 06/20/05 07:59 |
| No gif or jpg support? | Stripe-man | 03/23/05 02:19 |
| RE: Can't get this working | Ben | 12/16/02 00:57 |
| RE: Performance with BIG images? | taeho | 10/20/02 07:54 |
| RE: GIS systems - come see this | Sinh Nguyen | 09/06/02 13:27 |
| Can't get this working | John Guarino | 09/06/02 11:41 |
| pixsel information | azam | 09/02/02 11:07 |
| magataper | drap | 06/21/02 21:59 |
| Multiple selections? | Joseph | 02/28/02 22:33 |
| GIS systems - come see this | Ragnvald Larsen | 01/30/02 17:43 |
| RERE: Performance with BIG images? (to Steve) | zulu | 11/21/01 10:22 |
| RE: Drawing maps | Gerardo Tasistro | 11/13/01 00:07 |
| Drawing maps | Daniel | 11/11/01 06:22 |
| RE: Performance with BIG images? (to Steve) | Gerardo Tasistro | 11/05/01 21:10 |
| Web Pages | Shankar | 10/24/01 06:26 |
| images and html | jaydj | 09/14/01 00:07 |
| RE: Performance with BIG images? | James Smith | 06/12/01 02:26 |
| success | edy | 04/26/01 03:49 |
| no image on 2nd page | edy | 04/19/01 01:08 |
| Image zooming | R.Talis | 02/20/01 22:35 |
| Image zooming | R.Talis | 02/20/01 22:32 |
| RE: Performance with BIG images? | Jose' L Landivar | 01/20/01 20:06 |
| Performance with BIG images? | Steve Beuret | 11/29/00 09:19 |
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