RE: [PHP] A bad design decision or pure genius?

> -----Original Message----- > From: lists@pruimphotography.com [mailto:lists@pruimphotography.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 4:50 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] A bad design decision or pure genius? > > Hey Everyone, > > I have a question about php & javascript... Yes I know this forum is > for php BUT I needed an opinion on where to look for stuff... > > I have a application that I'm working on that uses google maps to > display interactive maps (using javascript) on the website. I > now have > the need to display multiple maps on the same page and from > what I can > tell I have to create new instances and variables for all of them... > > What I'm wondering is since I know very little javascript > would it be > bad to create a PHP function to write the java code for the proper > number of maps I need to display? The map info is being > pulled from a > database where events are being added and could contain 2 or > 200 maps... > > Or should I learn javascript and figure out how to create a loop in > there so that I can just loop it in the java and not repeat code? > > Thanks for any assistance you can give! > > Jason Pruim > pruimj@gmail.com Not sure why you would need to show more than a single map at any given time. Therefore why not use PHP to show a list of possible maps and when the user clicks on one, use AJAX to populate a single map on demand?