<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br>I would suggest you use a WMS/WFS service by using Geoserver or mapserver on top of your Postgis database, then connect to the web service with OpenLayers.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Brent Wood<br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 2/10/12, Vivaldi Al Barado <i>&lt;vivaldi_albarado@yahoo.com&gt;</i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Vivaldi Al Barado &lt;vivaldi_albarado@yahoo.com&gt;<br>Subject: [mapserver-users] How to read PostGIS data &amp; display into Openlayers?<br>To: "thomas bonfort" &lt;thomas.bonfort@gmail.com&gt;, "John Taranu" &lt;jtaranu@firstbasesolutions.com&gt;<br>Cc: "mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org" &lt;mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org&gt;<br>Date: Friday, February 10, 2012, 10:27 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1455711062"><div><div style="font-family:times new
 roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;">   <div id="yiv1455711062gt-res-content" class="yiv1455711062almost_half_cell"><div dir="ltr" style="zoom:1;"><span id="yiv1455711062result_box" class="yiv1455711062" lang="en"><span class="yiv1455711062hps">Is there someone that</span> <span class="yiv1455711062hps">can</span> <span class="yiv1455711062hps">give</span> <span class="yiv1455711062hps">an</span> <span class="yiv1455711062hps">example <br>of</span> <span class="yiv1455711062hps">how to</span> <span class="yiv1455711062hps">access a</span> <span class="yiv1455711062hps">PostGIS</span> <span class="yiv1455711062hps">database</span> <span class="yiv1455711062hps">from</span> <span class="yiv1455711062hps">openlayer</span> <span class="yiv1455711062hps"><br>and</span> <span class="yiv1455711062hps">then</span> <span class="yiv1455711062hps">displays</span> <span class="yiv1455711062hps">it to</span> <span class="yiv1455711062hps">the</span> <span
 class="yiv1455711062hps">openlayer</span><span class="yiv1455711062">?<br><br>Best regards<br>Gozali<br></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><br>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<br><br><div class="plainMail">_______________________________________________<br>mapserver-users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org" href="/mc/compose?to=mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org">mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>