PHP Wrapper to hide mapfile location

[Pagurek,Debbie [NCR]]

Hi all,
A developer at my office has written the following PHP wrapper to hide
the location of mapfiles. I have seen .asp scripts to do this but no PHP
scripts have been brought to attention until now so I thought I would
present this to the community for feedback. 

I have tested this briefly.
Any comments anyone?

D. Pagurek

<?
function buildQueryString($theArray)
{
foreach($theArray as $key=> $value)
	{
	$finalString.= "&$key=".urlencode($value);
	}
return $finalString;
}

if($_GET)
	{
	$strRequest = $_GET;
	}
	else
	{
	$strRequest = $_POST;
	}

$strURL =
"http://theserver/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=C:\ms4w\apps\chameleon\map\tes
t.map&".buildQueryString($strRequest);

ini_set('user_agent','MSIE 4\.0b2;'); // fake a browser request.
$handle = fopen($strURL, "r");
$contents = '';
if($handle)
	{
 	while (!feof($handle))
		{
	   $contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
 		}
	fclose($handle);
}
echo $contents;

?>