Problem: Recording location on mouse click on image....

bostonmacosx

What I want to do is this:

I have an image on a page. It is actually the floor layout of a building. You will be able to click anywhere on the image and then be taken to a page to enter information about a computer at that location.

I can get GD to draw a red dot on the image however I need to know how to get the X Y coordinate of the mouse click to the PHP script to generate the new image.

Any Ideas?

Thanks
Robert

bpat1434

Is the red dot actually where the mouse is? I.e. does the red dot "follow" the mouse, or is it a static dot that shows where a system is?

I know GD had x and y coordinate stuff, have you looked at the documentation for it?

While looking for help for you, I came across something I didn't know about PHP. SWFAction. Basically this is a small version of Flash. You could always take a static image and create your "movie" and capture mouse-clicks from that.

SWFAction

~Brett

bostonmacosx

See Image
Click on where I want the dot.
It passes the XY to a PHP script.
the PHP script invokes GD
Draws the red dot on image
return to page with the original image on it so that you can see the new red dot.

bpat1434

SWFAction would be your best bet then. If you can take the time to learn it, I'd tell you to learn it. Especially since it's integrated.

~Brett

bostonmacosx

SWFAction is not compiled in my PHP version. Soooo.

My workflow is looking like.

Server Side Imagemap --> PHP script which captures the XY. I'm going to have the XY become DIV locations with clickable images in them. Even faster then the GD method because there is no image recreation for each add or removal of stuff.

Might be not that graceful but I think it will work.

Ideas?

kburger

I think the solution is actually easier than that. Make it a "GET" method form and make the image the submit 'button'. Example:

Look for $GET['submit.x'] and $GET['submit.y']

bostonmacosx

Brilliant...thanks..

Now onto the processing.....

bpat1434

Ah. That i didn't know you could do. Does that work for all buttons?

Learn something new every day.

~Brett

kburger

Yeah, I discovered it by accident when a strange ...&submit.x=12&submit.y=5... query string was showing up in my GET forms that used images as submit buttons.