Hi Brian, some answers inline.
Brian Kittrell wrote: > Hi, > > I just wanted to drop in a message and see if anyone could help me > out. I am developing a browser-based MMO game, and I need mapping > functionality for it. Basically, I was wondering if anyone could > point me to some tutorials regarding the following topics that break > things down to a non-javascript developer. > > 1.) The ability to use the map library with an image instead of using > a map server. > Not a tutorial, but an example: http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/image-layer.html you should be able to add more Image layers that are being displayed at various zoomlevels. > 2.) The ability to add click-able hotspots to the map at specific > coordinates (with URL-encoded GET variables, etc.) > Maybe http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/select-feature-multilayer.html is what you are searching for? Notice how the Features of the layers are selectable and have an action that runs when a feuture is selected. The vector-features can be styled to (more or less) whatever you want. > 3.) If there is an ability to draw shapes on the map of different > colors (to represent borders of places). Not an extremely important > feature, but I'd like to have any suggestions or recommendations with > regards to this. (Maybe several overlay layers for each different > territory aligned to the image somehow?) > I'd suggest a Vector-layer with polygon features as well. If there are many regions you need to draw, I would definitely go with a mapserver. See http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/vector-features.html for the creation and styling of vector features. > I'm a PHP developer and have little experience in javascript. I can > follow tutorials, but I can't really write javascript from scratch > like I can with PHP. Any/all help is appreciated in advance. Thanks. > regards, Marc > - Brian > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > Dev@openlayers.org > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
