Perl script as template

[Zolla Michalak]

Sounds interesting. I'm not familiar with PHP though. Do you know where a
good example is?

-zm

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Daniel Morissette wrote:

> 
> I'm not sure what you're trying to do exactly (i.e. why you need to mix
> MapServer templates and MapScript), but there is also the PHP MapScript
> module that might allow you to do what you want.  Then your PHP page
> would be your HTML template and you would have access to MapScript.
> 
> 
> Zolla Michalak wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm. Interesting idea, but I don't think that would do what I want. I need
> > the perl code because I'm using the mapscript perl module. Also, it looks
> > like the template file needs a .html extension.
> > 
> > -zm
> > 
> > On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Doyon, Jean-Francois wrote:
> > 
> > > I realize Perl would be nice, but have you tried some form of Parsed HTML
> > > like PHP or ColdFusion ? Might do the trick ...
> > >
> > > J.F.
> > >
> > > > ----------
> > > > From:       Zolla Michalak[SMTP:michalak at hwr.arizona.edu]
> > > > Sent:       Thursday, June 08, 2000 2:24 PM
> > > > To:         mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> > > > Subject:    Perl script as template
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I have a suggestion for future versions of mapserver, which I think might
> > > > be easy to implement. Correct me if I'm out to lunch.
> > > >
> > > > I would like to be able to use a perl script (which generates html) for
> > > > the template file. Looks like it is catching my file name (.pl file) at
> > > > the TEMPLATE line in the map file, and rejecting it because of its
> > > > extention even before it looks at the perl.
> > > >
> > > > Do you think this would be a possibility?
> > > >
> > > > -zolla michalak
> > > >
> > >
> 
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