thks. yeah dbox is cool but i got another question- i'm trying to output [imgext] and other cgi variables from dbox. how do i grab them? i'd really want to use the backward and forward browser buttons. i think navigation is way cooler that way.
<br>jzs<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:30:27 -0500
<br>From: Steve Lime <<a href="mailto:Steve.Lime@DNR.STATE.MN.US">Steve.Lime@DNR.STATE.MN.US</a>><br>Subject: Re: CGI or Mapscript<br><br>The MapServer CGI can be viewed as one possible web application written<br>
in on top<br>of the MapServer C code. MapScript is a wrapper around that C code and<br>allows you<br>to do everything the MapServer CGI can do plus just about anything you<br>can dream<br>up.<br><br>For example, with MapServer CGI you can't create 10 maps at once and
<br>roll them into<br>an animated gif. You could with MapScript.<br><br>Another example, consider the ugly reference map in this page:<br><br><a href="http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/wmas/detail_report.html?map=COMPASS_MAPFILE&mode=itemquery&qlayer=bdry_adwma2py3_query&qitem=uniqueid&qstring=WMA0060402">
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/wmas/detail_report.html?map=COMPASS_MAPFILE&mode=itemquery&qlayer=bdry_adwma2py3_query&qitem=uniqueid&qstring=WMA0060402</a><br><br>You can't composite 2 MapServer generated maps with the CGI. You can
<br>with MapScript.<br><br>Anyway, there are lots of DHTML/js frameworks out there. One that sits<br>atop basically<br>just the MapServer CGI is called dbox. You can learn more at:<br><br> <a href="http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/tools/dbox">
http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/tools/dbox</a><br><br>It has a legend builder that requires MapScript (I have a PHP version<br>of the legend<br>building script if anyone cares), but certainly can be used without<br>it.</blockquote>
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