[mapserver-users] CGI variable substitution

[Stephen Davies]

Nope. pfilter works fine and the = goes through without issue.

Stephen

On Thursday 29 May 2008 11:44:04 Paul Spencer wrote:
> Not sure if this is related, but I am surprised that your example
> works because you have not escaped the = in your pfilter.  I would
> have expected that pfilter would have been cut off just before
> client_id and you would have a new variable called client_id=70))
>
> Paul
>
> On 28-May-08, at 9:51 PM, Stephen Davies wrote:
> > I have been using variable substitution for ages without any
> > problems at all
> > but now need to make a change to add a new variable.
> >
> > I just cannot make it work.
> > Presumably, I am doing something stupid but I cannot see what.
> > Can anybody please help.
> >
> > My URL looks like this:
> > http://www.agua.com.au/benparts/map.html?map=/tmp/11_70.map&client=70&map
> >ext=140.5261724+-36.7067416+140.5485957+-36.6984975
> > &mre=-1296538.11+-4230140.65+62672.87+-2872042.86&pfilter=pid+in+
> > (select+probe.id+from+probe+where+logger_id+in+(select+id+from+logger
> > +where+client_id=70))
> >
> > (plus a deal more filter definitions).
> >
> > My map file looks like this:
> >
> >    LAYER
> >      CONNECTIONTYPE postgis
> >      NAME "probe"
> >      DATA "geom from atp using unique id using SRID=4283"
> >      CONNECTION "user=scldad dbname=benparts"
> >      PROCESSING      "CLOSE_CONNECTION=DEFER"
> >      STATUS ON
> >      TYPE POINT
> >      FILTER  (%pfilter%)
> >      PROJECTION
> >        "init=epsg:4283"
> >      END
> >      MAXSCALE 5000000
> >      LABELITEM "temp"
> >      CLASS
> >        NAME       "Air Temp (Right Click to select)"
> >        STYLE
> >          COLOR        255 255 0
> >          SYMBOL 'circle'
> >          SIZE 7
> >        END
> >        LABEL
> >          MINDISTANCE 15
> >          POSITION CR
> >          SIZE SMALL
> >          BACKGROUNDCOLOR  0 0 0
> >          COLOR  255 255 0
> >          FORCE TRUE
> >        END
> >      END
> >    END
> >
> > This works as I expect.
> >
> > I now want to add a new filter by adding:
> >
> > &ffilter=blah_blah to the URL
> >
> > and a new layer with the same syntax as above (but with the new
> > filter) to the
> > map file.
> >
> > Despite trying a number of variations on the theme, my PostgreSQL
> > log still
> > shows a generated command that included %ffilter% instead of the
> > substitution
> > value.
> >
> > TIA,
> > Stephen Davies
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