[Chameleon] Architectural Advice

[Julien-Samuel Lacroix]

Hi,
I the Chameleon samples you have a lot of examples using the existing 
widgets. What you are trying to do is probably what the WMSBrowser 
widget is doing in the OGC sample. Is it possible?
Julien

anthony farrant wrote:
> Thanks. I'll try that out, Bart.
> 
> In the meanwhile I'm trying to implement dynamic layers in Chameleon.
> Do you know where I can start to find info about this? The doc on the WEB
> site doesn't seem to contain a lot.
> The layer would be created accroding to user input through a popup form. 
> Possible?
> I'm pretty much familiar with PHP/Mapscript
> but not yet with the dynamics of Chameleon. Any links to tutorials are 
> welcome.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Anthony
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/4/07, *Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)* <bartvde at osgis.nl 
> <mailto:bartvde at osgis.nl>> wrote:
> 
>     If you only use WMS client layers in Chameleon, this should be
>     possible (if
>     I understand your problem correctly).
> 
>     Best regards,
>     Bart
> 
>     --
>     Bart van den Eijnden
>     OSGIS, Open Source GIS
>     http://www.osgis.nl
> 
> 
>     --------- Oorspronkelijk bericht --------
>     Van: anthony farrant < anthony.k.farrant at gmail.com
>     <mailto:anthony.k.farrant at gmail.com>>
>     Naar: chameleon at lists.maptools.org
>     <mailto:chameleon at lists.maptools.org> <chameleon at lists.maptools.org
>     <mailto:chameleon at lists.maptools.org>>
>     Onderwerp: [Chameleon] Architectural Advice
>     Datum: 04/04/07 06:46
> 
>      > Hello,I&#39;d like to use chameleon to build our GIS web app but
>     have to
>     cope with a major difficulty:Our website is physically and logically
>     separated from our GIS server runningMapserver and Chameleon (different
>     cities &amp; networks). This implies that every change induced
>      > by the user has to be tranferred to the GIS server which sends
>     back the
>     answer (the map).Until now I have used a custom PHP/Mapscript
>     application
>     but I would like to benefit from theChameleon framework to build
>     nicer and
>     more functional applications.
>      > For the moment all the command logic is situated on the web
>     server which
>     handles requestsand then sends appropriate data to the GIS server to
>     build
>     the map. When the map returnsthe web server updates it&#39;s
>     internal info
>     (extent) and presents the map. All the databases
>      > are situated on the webserver so the GIS is only used for map
>     generation.
>     I understand that this would not be possible with Chameleon since it
>     handles
>     both commandlogic and map generation. I was wondering if any of you
>     has had
>     to deal with such a situation before and if you
>      > have found a lasting solution for it.CHeers,Anthony
>      >
>      >
>      >
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