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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Would adding in INCLUDEs from a URL be pushing it too much, as in:</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Could pass in parameters like so . . .</font> </p>
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>>> "Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH" <Michael.Smith@usace.army.mil> wrote:<br> </p>
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There is an RFC to have includes come from non-file connections<br>(databases). It would be another option<br><br><a href="http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-74.html">http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-74.html</a><br><br><br>Mike<br><br>--<br>Michael Smith<br><br>Remote Sensing/GIS Center<br>US Army Corps of Engineers<br><br><br><br>On 10/3/11  2:51 PM, "Stephen Woodbridge" <woodbri@swoodbridge.com> wrote:<br><br>>One idea regarding this that you might want to consider is the ability<br>>to put all the named parameters in an include file, then be able to<br>>include that file via a CGI parameter. So it might look like this:<br>><br>><br>>MAP<br>>   INCLUDE "client-params-%client_id%.inc"<br>>   ...<br>>END<br>><br>>And then you could have parameter files like:<br>><br>>client-params-27.inc<br>>client-params-123.inc<br>>etc.<br>><br>>And these would include nothing but your SET ... commands.<br>><br>>Then when requesting the map:<br>><br>>/http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?client_id=123&mode=map&map=/path/to/mapf<br>>ile.map&...<br>><br>>This would make it very easy to manage a single mapfile for parameters<br>>that are different for each client/user.<br>><br>>Obviously the client_id could be set via a cookie, or a wrapper script,<br>>or a session variable, or manually, etc.<br>><br>>-Steve W<br>><br>>On 10/3/2011 2:39 PM, reholl wrote:<br>>> I'm interested in working on capabilities along these lines.  Are there<br>>> existing RFCs that touch on this?  If not, perhaps one should be<br>>>created.<br>>><br>>> This overlaps some configuration ideas I've been mulling over.  From the<br>>> original comment here about internal vars being handy for "/when the<br>>>same<br>>> layers are re-used for several customers who like to have a bit<br>>>different<br>>> styling for the same source data/" it occurs to me that a matrix or some<br>>> other constructs more complex than a flat list of internal variables<br>>>might<br>>> be called for -- provided they don't turn the mapfile and internal<br>>>mapserv<br>>> into spaghetti..<br>>><br>>> Jukka Rahkonen (have I ordered your name properly?), do you want to<br>>>start an<br>>> RFC on this?<br>>><br>>> To anyone -- would this conversation typically migrate over to 'dev' ?<br>>><br>>> Robert Hollingsworth<br>>><br>>><br>>> I agree that this is a request that comes up often. As usual we'd just<br>>> need someone to lead the effort.<br>>><br>>> On 11-10-03 12:12 AM, Rahkonen Jukka wrote:<br>>>> Hi,<br>>>><br>>>> Inspired by the Thomas Bonfort's rendering chain I have been thinking<br>>>>if<br>>>> we could have a native support for using  internal mapfile variables.<br>>>>Now<br>>>> Thomas is setting for example a bunch of colours in a definition file<br>>>> which is converted into a real mapfile with python script and c<br>>>> preprocessor.<br>>>> <a href="http://mapserver-utils.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/README">http://mapserver-utils.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/README</a><br>>>> <a href="http://mapserver-utils.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/generate_style.py">http://mapserver-utils.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/generate_style.py</a><br>>>><br>>>> I would like to see a simple way for setting the variables directly in<br>>>>the<br>>>> mapfile, somehow like<br>>>> MAP<br>>>> SET "pedestrian_clr"  "#fafaf5"<br>>>> SET "forest_clr" "#dcdcb4"<br>>>> SET "industrial_clr" "#ebe5d9"<br>>>> ....<br>>>><br>>>> And then later in the layers use<br>>>> LAYER<br>>>> .....<br>>>> COLOR %pedestrian_clr%<br>>>><br>>>> The internal variables could be interpreted only from the mapfile and<br>>>>they<br>>>> could not be altered by the web users.<br>>>><br>>>> Internal variable would help in maintaining big mapfiles with repeating<br>>>> styles like in the OpenStreetMap rendering case.  Another use case is<br>>>>when<br>>>> the same layers are re-used for several customers who like to have a<br>>>>bit<br>>>> different styling for the same source data.<br>>>><br>>>> -Jukka Rahkonen-<br>>>><br>>><br>>> --<br>>> View this message in context:<br>>><a href="http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Feature-wish-Internal-mapfile-vari">http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Feature-wish-Internal-mapfile-vari</a><br>>>ables-tp6853853p6856070.html<br>>> Sent from the Mapserver - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.<br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> mapserver-users mailing list<br>>> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br>>> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users</a><br>><br>>_______________________________________________<br>>mapserver-users mailing list<br>>mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br>><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mapserver-users mailing list<br>mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users</a><br>
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