Hallo all,

For my final year project I choose something that is quite challenging for me, as its not really 100% related to what I am doing on my Degree, I just was stuck for ideas and found this interesting. I decided to do a forum, that uses Post It notes, which when posting, the user can place the post it notes where ever they like.
Its using MySQL PHP with some Javascript and AJAX on the page itself.
Thus far I have got some pretty things going on with the post its thanks to the code on the scipt.aculo.us webpage. I havent got as far as saving the changed position of post its, or putting written content inside them, that will come later.

What I am asking for now, is does anyone know any decent scripts for zooming in and out. The idea is the user can go from a far out veiw, to viewing individual post its. All the ones I find are concerned with zooming on an individual image. The kind of zoom I am looking for would be like the kind you get on mapping websites, where you can zoom in on the background then move about, I havent been able to find anything so far and its not something I would be able to code myself. Does anyone know of any open source code that does anything similar as im a bit stuck on this bit?

that sounds like fun.

Basicly to me you need to try an do what Flickr do (clicky), Except for it being a map it can be anything else.

The way i would approach it is to lay out a massive tiled image, same as GoogleMaps etc.. then have it pre-caching to speed up the download.
that will give you a base or area for ppl to zoom in an out of. place all of that in a large div to give the effect of the page moving.

I know of the effect you are after, i have read up on it somewhere, but i cant remember where or how to start it.
I will have a scout about, but for the meantime you can have a look through these links and see if there is anything you can poach.
http://edevil.wordpress.com/2005/11/14/javascript-libraries-roundup/
http://ajaxpatterns.org/Tutorial_Links

better get a move on if its your project for this year..?

ive nearly finished my code and im behind... should be writing by now

o dear project! well I did my project in 5 days! and i didnt have enought words, so lucky they didnt count it! 8,000 words

DO NOT leave it to the last min! so much to cover!

haha Im surpise I passed it!

Im sure you got a structure to follow, if u dont i can give you a layout structure depending on the topic you choose

Yea shad that was the idea I was after. Just come back from a meeting with my Tutour and I think I was looking to do something that was a bit complicated as a starting point, and that I should just use php to resize all the elements on the page by using a scaling factor and reload the page. The idea I had would probably be a lot prettier but chances are its going a bit far. Cheers for the links they look good.

As for being behind, I dont think I am, tutour doesnt seem to be worried. We didnt have our planning viva until December when we had to show our plans, so only been going since then, got until mid May. I also dont have to do a disertation so got more time to focus on this. Should be fine.

What sort of resizing you doing?
Thumbnails from large img?
if you are resizing on page use ems as they resize better.

i just recently completed phase 1 of multiple hotel booking engines for work, written all in Javascript. Resizing of imgs are in ems, better than px or %.
here is an example of our test engine.
https://reservations.g-rez.com/G-rez/en