[mapserver-users] php fails on MS4W and Apache

Mon Jun 23 23:01:35 EDT 2008

Thank you!  I¡¯ve tried, it works quite well.

But according to my book, to force Apache to load the CGI version of

PHP, user must add the following lines in the Apache config file httpd.conf:

AddHandler php-script .php

Action php-script /cgi-bin/php

Then delete the reference to .php from the AddType line (if it exists), so it looks like this:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html .phtml

¡°

By removing .php from the AddType directive, files with this extension will use the CGI version

of PHP even if the environment contains a DSO version. If you don¡¯t remove the reference,

then Apache will continue to use the DSO version of PHP to handle documents of type php. ¡°

-- from book <Apress Beginning MapServer Open Source GIS Development>

My Questions are:

1.       Does the procedures described above are required for MS4W? (The book author

did the illustration on the Linux version of mapserver, I guess so).

2.       That loading the PHP Mapscript module in my PHP script dynamically does work,

but does that mean my server has to load this module repeatedly for every web client

request? Is there a better solution that apache will load PHP Mapscipt module automatically

whenever starting?

Jeff Zhao,

Chengdu, China

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From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna
Sent: 2008Äê6ÔÂ23ÈÕ 21:31
To: Mapserver-users
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] php fails on MS4W and Apache

You must dynamically load the PHPMapscript module in your PHP script, with MS4W.  See the example script in /ms4w/Apache/htdocs/quickmap.php

-jeff

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Jeff McKenna

FOSS4G Consulting and Training Services

http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/

On 23-Jun-08, at 5:11 AM, Zhao Ying (CDU) wrote:

Greetings,

I¡¯m trying to test my PHP MapScript environment on MS4W.

Unfortunately, each time I run the following php file on the apache server within MS4W, a same

error message is always thrown:

-- Error Message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function ms_newMapObj() in C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\phpms_hello.php on line 7

-- PHP file:  phpms_hello.php

This example is from chapter8, book <Apress Beginning MapServer Open Source GIS Development Aug 2005>

however, according to the author, this example is expected to be run a Linux version mapserver (I guess so),

so I¡¯m under the assumption that all configuration procedures described in this book before running this example

won¡¯t work for MS4W.

<?php

  // Create a unique image name every time through

  $image_name = sprintf("phpms-hello%0.6d",rand(0,999999)).".png";

  // Create a new instance of a map object

  $map = ms_newMapObj("/ms4w/test2/hello.map");

  // Create an image of the map and save it to disk

  $image=$map->draw();

  $image->saveImage("/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/".$image_name);

?>

<html>

<head><title>PHP MapScript Hello World</title></head>

<body>

  <form action="phpms_hello.php" method="POST">

    <input type="image" name="img"

          src="/tmp/<?php echo $image_name; ?>">

  </form>

</body>

</html>

Did I miss some configurations for MS4W to work with php or something?

Thanks!!!

Jeff.

Chengdu, China

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