Mapserver

[krishna]

Hi all, i am new to mapserver programming. I have installed ms4w on my
windows machine and wrote a small mapfile. I am not sure how to write a
php script to generate a map from a mapfile using mapserv. Could anyone
please help me out in generating a mapfile with some php script. The
following is my mapfile

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MAP
    NAME "states"
    SIZE 400 400
    STATUS ON
    EXTENT -120 26.5 -85 61.5
    SHAPEPATH "C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\mapserverdata\data\"

    WEB
        TEMPLATE "C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\demo.html"
        IMAGEPATH "C:\temp"
        IMAGEURL "c:\temp"
    END

    QUERYMAP
        STATUS ON
        STYLE HILITE
        COLOR 255 255 0
    END



    LAYER
        NAME "states"
        TYPE POLYGON
        STATUS ON

        DATA "C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\mapserverdata\data\states"
        FILTERITEM state
        FILTER "%name%"     #passed form querystring
        CLASS
            STYLE
                #TEMPLATE "..\template\template.html"
  COLOR 110 50 100
                OUTLINECOLOR 200 200 200

     END
        END

    END
END
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I wrote this mapfile with some help from internet.

Any help is highly appreciated .........

Bye