PHP/Mapscript: send map to browser directly

[Guillaume Sueur]

you can directly use a php file as the SRC of the IMG tag

Hope that helps.

Guillaume

Wally Maddoc a écrit :
> Hi list.
> 
> The usual way to send a map to the browser is to store the image file (e.g
> mymap.png) on the server and invoke the URL to this file in the HTML-Code. 
> I think of something like this:
> ________________________________________
> <?php
> $map = ms_newMapObj($map_path.$map_file)
> ...
> $image=$map->draw();
> $image_url=$image->saveWebImage()
> ...
> 
> <!--- HTML-Code -->
> ...
> <INPUT TYPE=IMAGE NAME="mapa" SRC="<?php echo $image_url?>"
> ...
> ________________________________________
> 
> 
> Is there a direct method to send the map to the browser without saving the
> map in a file. I think of some corresponding PHP code:
> 
> header('Content-type: image/png');
> imagepng($image);
> 
> Thanks for any advice that anyone might have.
> 
> Erik
> 

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