Non-existant Legend Functionality?

[Abe Gillespie]

I build my legends by hand with PHP code because the native functionality 
just isn't good enough for what I need. Unfortunately I still can't get it 
perfect because of what I think is missing MapServer functionality. 
Currently my legends are just too big for printing. Is there a way to tell 
whether a certain class is visible w/i the current view? Now I don't mean 
whether the class is within it's scale limits (MIN or MAXSCALE). Rather can 
one tell if a layer / class has any data w/i the current view. For instance, 
I may have a fire hydrant layer w/o any scale dependencies. But I might be 
zoomed into a field way out in the country side. So, yeah, technically the 
layer can be seen at that scale, but no fire hydrants are actually in the 
view.

If this doesn't exist, shall I issue a feature request?

Thanks.
-Abe
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