[mapserver-commits] r10416 - branches/branch-5-6/docs/en/mapfile

[svn at osgeo.org]

Author: jmckenna
Date: 2010-07-29 19:43:27 +0000 (Thu, 29 Jul 2010)
New Revision: 10416

Modified:
   branches/branch-5-6/docs/en/mapfile/layer.txt
Log:
add PLUGIN parameter (ticket:3135)

Modified: branches/branch-5-6/docs/en/mapfile/layer.txt
===================================================================
--- branches/branch-5-6/docs/en/mapfile/layer.txt	2010-07-29 19:03:38 UTC (rev 10415)
+++ branches/branch-5-6/docs/en/mapfile/layer.txt	2010-07-29 19:43:27 UTC (rev 10416)
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
         See :ref:`vector` for specific connection information for various
         data sources.
 
-CONNECTIONTYPE [local|sde|ogr|postgis|oraclespatial|wms]
+CONNECTIONTYPE [local|sde|ogr|postgis|oraclespatial|wms|plugin]
     Type of connection. Default is local. See additional documentation for 
     any other type.
 
@@ -374,7 +374,19 @@
     This is only needed in the case of RGB output formats, and should be used 
     only when necessary as it is expensive to render transparent pixmap 
     symbols onto an RGB map image.
+    
+PLUGIN [filename]
+    Additional library to load by MapServer, for this layer.  This is commonly
+    used to load specific support for SDE and Microsoft SQL Server layers, 
+    such as:
+    
+      .. code-block:: mapfile
 
+        CONNECTIONTYPE PLUGIN
+        CONNECTION "hostname,port:xxx,database,username,password"
+        PLUGIN "C:/ms4w/Apache/specialplugins/msplugin_sde_92.dll"  
+        DATA "layername,geometrycolumn,SDE.DEFAULT"     
+
 POSTLABELCACHE [true|false]
     Tells MapServer to render this layer after all labels in the cache have 
     been drawn. Useful for adding neatlines and similar elements.