[fusion-users] Querying MapServer Maps with Filter

[Paul Spencer]

Hi Bernhard,

There are no particular plans to make this work for MapServer but  
contributions would be accepted!

Cheers

Paul

On 7-Oct-08, at 9:03 AM, Bernhard Schneider wrote:

> Hello Fusionists,
>
> I would like to programmatically select a subset of the features in  
> a particular layer. The query-method of the Map class seems to be  
> the right thing to use. In order to select just the features of a  
> layer the user is interested in (instead of all features in that  
> layer) one can specify filter options with SQL SELECT statements.  
> This is what I learned from the Fusion Cookbook (http://trac.osgeo.org/fusion/wiki/Cookbook/Map/Query 
> ).
>
> The Cookbook also says that the filter is not available for  
> MapServer. Hence my two questions:
> -- Are there any plans for the near future to make the filter option  
> work with MapServer?
> -- Is there an alternative or workaround for MapServer?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Bernhard
>
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    DM Solutions Group Inc
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