Advance Search turn to Map search please help...

[ott27]

Hi all,

I need some help with this scenerio... I have an advance search that is searching by states like this below....

<form name="form1" method="get" action="results_list.php" onSubmit="return validatestate()">
<input type="hidden" name="statename" value="">
<select name="state" size="1">
<option selected>Select State/Province</option>
<optgroup label="USA">
<option value="AK">Alaska</option>
<option value="AL">Alabama</option>
<option value="AR">Arkansas</option>
<option value="AZ">Arizona</option>
<option value="CA">California</option>
<option value="CO">Colorado</option>
<option value="CT">Connecticut</option>
<option value="DC">District of Columbia</option>
<option value="DE">Delaware</option>
and so on.....

And now I would like to use a U.S. map (image map) and have the ability to click each states to return the results_list.php, I have something similar below but not sure how to link the two together. Here it is....

<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><img src="us.gif" border="0" usemap="#usmap" class="mapBorder" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<map name="usmap">
<area alt="" shape="rect" coords="499,187,531,204" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="window.open('/area_code_maps/display.html?dc','','width=550,height=400,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes');" />

I'm not sure what this section should be the bold and italic code. For this example it's wanting to open up a new windows for the Distric of Columbia area. All I would want to do is have results_list.php take care of it.

Any help?? Thanks in advance.

 

[vacunita]

Just loose the Javascript there, and use the href attribute of the map area to set the page to results_list.php

<map name="usmap">
<area alt="" shape="rect" coords="499,187,531,204" [red]href="results_list.php?state=AK"[/red]/>

Thner from within results_list.php use $_GET['state'] to get the value of the sate that was clicked on.



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[ott27]

Thank you for your suggestions, I will give it a try.