mouse click

[chsadaki@hotmail.com]

HI
I am working on a project for the university, I need to know if there
is a method in php that returns the x,y of the mouse click. cos I need
it to allocate some positions on a map of my city.

thanx in advance
shameram sadaki

[Ian Collins]

Re: mouse click

chsadaki@hotmai l.com wrote:[color=blue]
> HI
> I am working on a project for the university, I need to know if there
> is a method in php that returns the x,y of the mouse click. cos I need
> it to allocate some positions on a map of my city.
>[/color]
That's client side stuff, you have to capture this in JavaScript.

--
Ian Collins.

[Chung Leong]

Re: mouse click

chsadaki@hotmai l.com wrote:[color=blue]
> HI
> I am working on a project for the university, I need to know if there
> is a method in php that returns the x,y of the mouse click. cos I need
> it to allocate some positions on a map of my city.
>
> thanx in advance
> shameram sadaki[/color]

Yes, if you're talking about a server-side image map. If you have the
following on a page:

<form>
<input type="image" name="cmap" src="campus_map .jpg">
</form>

when the user clicks on a spot on the picture, the browser would sent
the variable pair cmap.x and cmap.y to the server. These two can be
retrieved in PHP from the $_GET array at the indices "cmap_x" and
"cmap_y".

Server-side image map is a somewhat outdated technique however. People
nowadays usually use client-side image maps instead.

[Dikkie Dik]

Re: mouse click

If you want to contact the web server with the coordinates:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/struct/objects.html#adef-ismap

If you want to handle everything on the client, use USEMAP instead.

chsadaki@hotmai l.com wrote:[color=blue]
> HI
> I am working on a project for the university, I need to know if there
> is a method in php that returns the x,y of the mouse click. cos I need
> it to allocate some positions on a map of my city.
>
> thanx in advance
> shameram sadaki
>[/color]