classifying with an external datasource

[Holger Flörke]

Hi Richard,

I did not find any way to add dynamically values to shapes from a
shapefile. Setting those values with php/mapscript does not work and
modifying the classindex attribute does not work. I ended with producing
dynamically a new dbf file (caution the order of the rows in the dbf has to
be exact the order of the shapes in the shapefile) and wrote a
php/mapscript extension where I can tell mapserver to use the new dbf file
instead of the shape-dbf file.

HolgeR

Richard Jansen schrieb:

> Hi List,
>
> I want to classify and color a poly shape. The values for classifying are
> stored in a SQL Server database. When I read the List I understand that
> this is not possible. I'm trying to join a template dbf file with the
> needed values. I also tried to add new field to the dbf, that's not simple.
> I'm using PHP/Mapscript. Is there a way to do this?
>
> Thanks for your comments,
> Richard Jansen
>

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