[Mapserver-users] Re: perl / mapscript

[pkishor_98]

--- In mapserver-users at yahoogroups.com, "Paul Dymecki"
<millardymecki at s...> wrote:
> Well actually i may be makeing this more complicated then it needs. I've
> built a phpmapscript application containing vegetaion
zones(polygons) around
> the country.  There is a larger perl application(not under my care) that
> will pass me a lat/lon.  

this larger perl app... is this a mapserver app? if yes, then it is
running on unix, because perl/mapscript is possible only on unix
(afaik). If not, then how do you query it? Is it a pure perl app
accessing a database? In which case you could simply access the
database directly from PHP.

See, the problem is not that you can run perl/mapscript and
php/mapscript simultaneously. The problem is whether you can run them
in the same script. On the server, the script has to be interpreted by
either the PHP interpreter, or by the Perl interpreter... can't do
both. One or the other. What you can do is have the Perl script
construct a PHP script that you then run from the web. In which case
you would build a script with the lat/lon values filled in. But, yes,
this could be complicated.

Care to give more details?



>I then have to query and return which vegetation
> zone this point resides in.  So the script would be a backend one
with no
> user/map interaction at all.  Would  that be possible.
> Paul
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "pkishor_98" <pkishor at g...>
> To: <mapserver-users at l...>
> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 9:43 PM
> Subject: [Mapserver-users] Re: perl / mapscript
> 
> 
> > --- In mapserver-users at yahoogroups.com, "Paul Dymecki"
> > <millardymecki at s...> wrote:
> > > HI Steve,
> > >     Do you know if Perl/mapscript is available on windowsXP?
> >
> > afaik, perl/mapscript only compiles on unix (I believe these a
> > swig-related problems). To date I have not met anyone who has it
> > running on Windows.
> >
> >
> > That said, I read your original question. What Steve says is true...
> > you can run both perl and php mapscripts, but the question asks
> > itself... why? I don't know of anything you can do in one you can't in
> > the other. If it is all under your control, stick with one...
> > php/mapscript is well supported under Windows. The good folks at DM
> > Solutions have made wonderful examples available, many other people
> > (myself included) have created successful apps... php/mapscript seems
> > to be a viable, perhaps the only, solution on windows.
> >
> > You want to share more as to why you want to mix perl and php on
windows?
> >
> >
> > The only
> > > installation docs i could find were for unix.
> > > thx
> > > Paul
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <woodbri at s...>
> > > To: "MapServer List EE-mail"" <mapserver-users at l...>; "Paul
> > > Dymecki" <millardymecki at s...>
> > > Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 9:55 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] perl / mapscript
> > >
> > >
> > > > Yes you can have both running. Remember that mapscript is just a
> > > > wrapper to give you programmatic access to Mapserver.
> > > >
> > > > There are examples of Perl/Mapscript on wiki and I'm pretty
sure one
> > > > of them calls querybypoint (although I haven't verified that).
> > > >
> > > > -Steve W.
> > > >
> > > > On 15 Mar 2003 at 9:24, Paul Dymecki wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >     Conveniently enough i need some help with a perl question
> > > > >     regarding php. I was wondering what the best way of
calling a
> > > > >     mapscript querybypoint function from perl?  My current
app is in
> > > > >     php but need to communicate with another perl application.
> > Is it
> > > > >     possible to have both perl-mapscript and php-mapscript
> > running on
> > > > >     the same server?
> > > > > thx for any help,
> > > > > Paul
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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