[Chameleon] What does chameleon do?

[pxniw pxniw]

Thanks this cleared up things a bit.
Basically its copy and Paste type of environment
rather than swyg system. Ie if I want to add something
for the sample file, I would add "<CWC> some widget
here <CWC>" to sample html file.

Ok going for more advanced stuff:
I noticed that Chameleon will handle MySQL?
Found this:
http://www.maptools.org/chameleon/wiki/SQLQuery

Is this able to do this?

I have php and perl scripts working for mapserver with
Chameleon and MapLab.
I also have some other data in MySQL database.
Tables have info like: RestaurantName;City;Lat;Lon

How do I query either in PHP or Perl RestaurantName
and provide a Pin Label (Marker) for Lat Lon
coordinates on my existing mapserver layout for single
restaurant?

Ie: I have a map of Georgia displayed. User have
options to type city in text box (ie Atlanta), and hit
Go button.

How do I query the MySQL db and show restaurant
locations in existing map?

Thank You for all of who have provided their time for
these projects, I will try to do the same, once I
learn things a bit more.
Happy Holidays


--- Bart van den Eijnden <bartvde@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> basically Chameleon is being fed a HTML template
> with special tags in it, 
> you can recognize them by "CWC". A zoom-in tool for
> instance is a widget 
> and is recognized by the CWC in the HTML template.
> The basic unit of 
> Chameleon is the widget, the HTML template is a
> collection of widgets.
> 
> Chameleon interprets this template and creates HTML
> and javascript, which 
> will turn into a full-featured web mapping client.
> 
> Also, it needs to know which map layers to draw,
> that's the second 
> configuration element, so always a Mapserver MAP
> file which you can create 
> with Maplab if you want (or a Web Map Context
> document, but this is 
> harder), is needed.
> 
> In the index.phtml of your sample application both
> the HTML template and 
> the MAP file are linked. This is specific for
> Chameleon 1.1 and was 
> different in Chameleon 1.0 (which had a service
> instance which interpreted 
> templates instead of one application per HTML
> template/MAP file 
> combination).
> 
> In short you could say Chameleon is the toolkit to
> easily build webmapping 
> clients, which could be configured by someone who
> knows HTML.
> 
> You can see an example at:
> 
> http://mapsherpa.dmsolutions.ca/hawaii2/
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
> 
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 07:33:24 -0800 (PST), pxniw
> pxniw <pxniw69@yahoo.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Just downloaded and installed chameleon. (1.1
> Alpha 6)
> > Its so confusing what is the demo/sample file?
> > (I could not find cwc2.php on my files , I think
> its
> > in the old files) I downloaded files from
> >
>
http://www.maptools.org/chameleon/index.phtml?page=home.html
> >
> > and see other site
> > http://www.dmsolutions.ca/techserv/chameleon.html
> >
> > this is getting more confusing.
> > Installed
> > http://www.maptools.org/dl/chameleon-sample.zip
> and it
> > works, after few changes in paths.
> >
> > I tried and understand maplab ok.
> >
> > How do I use chameleon? Is there a screenshot
> > somewhere, so I could see what it is used for? (My
> > understanding it has all these widgets, but where,
> and
> > how do I use them... copy and paste the code? I
> think
> > I am missing something major here. Im completely
> nubie
> > so explain with that in mind.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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