[ka-Map-users] Customizing search system

[Alessio Di Lorenzo]

Hi,

After a period of working on other things, I started again to work on a
search filter in ka-map.
My objective is to queryByAttributes only a specifical postgis table (or
shape), 
selected by the user through an appropriate interface, instead the entire
database.

So, I modified the kaSearch.php by substituting the following For cicle:

for ($i = 0; $i < $tot; $i++) {
	$oLayer = $oMap->getLayer($i);
...
..
}

with the following code:

$layer = $_REQUEST['searchlayer'];

$oLayer = $oMap->getLayerByName($layer);

where 'searchlayer' represents the "name" parameter in a dropdown list that
I inserted
in the search form in my index.html:

<form name="search"
action="javascript:myKaSearch.search(document.forms['search'].elements['searchstring'].value);">

	<select name="searchlayer">
		<option value="nome_tabella_1">Alias1</option>
		<option value="nome_tabella_2">Alias2</option>
		<option value="nome_tabella_3">Alias3</option>
	</select>

<input type="text"...>
<button type="button"
onClick="myKaSearch.search(document.forms['search'].elements['searchstring'].value)">Cerca</button>
</form>

I suppose that the mapscript code hack is correct.
Infact, if I type manually the table name as an argument of the
getLayerByName() method
it works. Otherwise, when I use the $layer variable as an argument of the
same method, it doesn't work.

Example:

$oLayer = $oMap -> getLayerByName('my_table_name')  --> works fine 

$oLayer = $oMap -> getLayerByName($layer)  --> doesn't work


The problem is that the value that I want to send from the <select
name="searchlayer">
is not sent to the kaSearch.php file.

I suppose I need to modify the onClick in the html and/or the kaSearch.js in
some way, 
but I'm not an expert in ajax/javascript, so I need some help in this issue.

Thx all in advance

alessio 

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