[Geoprisma-dev] PHP OO to generate a mapfile

[Alexandre Dube]

Hi Steve,

  I guess this thread should be on the MapServer-dev ML.

Regards,

Alexandre


Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Happy New Year Everyone,
>
> Over the holidays, I took a stab at generating OO PHP Classes that can 
> take a PHP hash array and turn it into a mapfile. It works quite well 
> but probably needs to additional refactoring. You can see the hash, 
> the mapfile and the map image here.
>
> http://imaptools.com:8080/work/testMapfile2.php
>
> I want to add a mapfile parser to read a mapfile and create the hash 
> and/or the object tree directly.
>
> My thoughts behind this effort are that it might be useful for 
> building a tool that could be used as part of shapefile upload tool 
> that would also need to generate or modify a mapfile. While I am not 
> using mapscript and prefer not to to keep installation and 
> configuration simple, this could also be extended to pass the mapfile 
> directly to mapscript so you could provide realtime sample images of 
> styling changes. The current demo is using cgi mapserver.
>
> Thoughts on this?
> I think some of you have thought about a shapefile upload tool.
>
> -Steve W
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Alexandre Dubé
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