[PHP] A bad design decision or pure genius?
Hey Everyone, I have a question about php & javascript... Yes I know this forum is for php BUT I needed an opinion on where to look for stuff... I have a application that I'm working on that uses google maps to display interactive maps (using javascript) on the website. I now have the need to display multiple maps on the same page and from what I can tell I have to create new instances and variables for all of them... What I'm wondering is since I know very little javascript would it be bad to create a PHP function to write the java code for the proper number of maps I need to display? The map info is being pulled from a database where events are being added and could contain 2 or 200 maps... Or should I learn javascript and figure out how to create a loop in there so that I can just loop it in the java and not repeat code? Thanks for any assistance you can give! Jason Pruim pru...@gmail.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] A bad design decision or pure genius?
On Jan 13, 2011, at 7:54 PM, Joshua Kehn wrote: On Jan 13, 2011, at 7:49 PM, li...@pruimphotography.com wrote: Hey Everyone, I have a question about php & javascript... Yes I know this forum is for php BUT I needed an opinion on where to look for stuff... I have a application that I'm working on that uses google maps to display interactive maps (using javascript) on the website. I now have the need to display multiple maps on the same page and from what I can tell I have to create new instances and variables for all of them... What I'm wondering is since I know very little javascript would it be bad to create a PHP function to write the java code for the proper number of maps I need to display? The map info is being pulled from a database where events are being added and could contain 2 or 200 maps... Or should I learn javascript and figure out how to create a loop in there so that I can just loop it in the java and not repeat code? Thanks for any assistance you can give! Jason Pruim pru...@gmail.com Love the lists@ email address there. My preference would be to invest some time in frontend (JavaScript) skills, as that would be the most "proper" way to implement it. If you don't have the time, might as well use whatever tools you are most comfortable with. Could turn into a bit of a mess though. Hey Josh, Yeah the lists@ address just makes it easier since I am syncing email with my smart phone I didn't want to get all of this list plus the many others I'm on to get synced... I doubt my phone could handle it hehehe. In the long run I want to learn javascript... But this new requirement just popped up on me on a project that I was working on... So I was gauging what was going to be easier :) Thanks for the response! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] A bad design decision or pure genius?
On Jan 13, 2011, at 8:53 PM, Daevid Vincent wrote: -Original Message- From: li...@pruimphotography.com [mailto:li...@pruimphotography.com] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 4:50 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] A bad design decision or pure genius? Hey Everyone, I have a question about php & javascript... Yes I know this forum is for php BUT I needed an opinion on where to look for stuff... I have a application that I'm working on that uses google maps to display interactive maps (using javascript) on the website. I now have the need to display multiple maps on the same page and from what I can tell I have to create new instances and variables for all of them... What I'm wondering is since I know very little javascript would it be bad to create a PHP function to write the java code for the proper number of maps I need to display? The map info is being pulled from a database where events are being added and could contain 2 or 200 maps... Or should I learn javascript and figure out how to create a loop in there so that I can just loop it in the java and not repeat code? Thanks for any assistance you can give! Jason Pruim pru...@gmail.com Not sure why you would need to show more than a single map at any given time. Therefore why not use PHP to show a list of possible maps and when the user clicks on one, use AJAX to populate a single map on demand? Hey Daevid, That is a great idea... The only issue is i don't know ajax yet :) But it's on my list of things to do this year! What I ended up doing is just putting a static image in which is generated automatically by google on the fly using the GPS coordinates that I supply, it places a marker on the image, and then it links into a full map where you can pan, zoom, get directions etc. etc. So just needed to think out side the box a little bit! And... For the archives... YES that would have been a bad design decision. It was a crutch to get me through until I can learn more javascript and start mastering that. Thanks for the help! :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Design question
Morning everyone! I have a design question... No it's not about the interior of my house... although I could use some help with that as well... I am working on a framework for my own use (And maybe one day will beat out the popular frameworks! Hey I can dream right? :)) and to increase my knowledge. Here's my current index page: DJ_doctype("HTML4S"); DJ_head("Double J FrameWork", $cfgCss, $cfgMeta); DJ_modules("navigation", "option"); DJ_page("main_content.html", "mainContent"); DJ_dbconnect($cfgDatabase); DJ_footer("copywrite", "Double J Web Design"); It all works perfectly but I'm starting to question having a bunch of function calls like that or should I simply have a big master DJ_displayPage() call? or should I have my framework create the html files? Has anyone gone down this road before? any pitfalls I should watch out for that aren't in google yet? :) Thanks everyone! Jason Pruim -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php