[Chameleon] Help on Widget Development...

[Normand Savard]

Nolte, Tim wrote:

>I'm trying to build in some search & geocoding capabilities into my
>Chameleon application. I first tried simply adding some form elements
>into my application template. I'm processing the posted values via PHP
>in the index.phtml file and creating points/layers using MapScript but
>I'm having no success getting the map to zoom in on the new point. I'm
>figuring I need to build these form objects as widgets in order for this
>all to work properly. Does anyone have any ideas or help on this? The
>widget development tutorial on the Chameleon wiki doesn't seem to be all
>that helpful for this instance, and just looking at other widgets
>doesn't seem to be all that helpful. Thanks in advance.
>
>  
>
Tim,

I'm not an expert in widget development but you could start with the 
locate widget which has this feature of zooming to a point.  See the 
sample_enhanced application.

Norm