[Geomoose-users] GeoMoose 2 and PHP requirement

[Brent Fraser]

Dan,

  I like the plan to secure the xml file; I just wanted to make sure you appreciated how painful PHP (and PHP mapscript with IIS!) can be for some of us.

  If Beta 2 can have the same instant gratification as v1.6.1 ("first you install ms4w, then install GeoMoose, then click the demo url to see the map") that would be great!

Keep up the good work!
Brent


Dan Little wrote:
> This is actually a component that we/I decided on for long term planning.
> 
> On of the goals is to offer the ability to have "secured" Mapbooks out of the box with GeoMOOSE (this is probably a late-2.2 or early-2.4 feature).
> 
> The method to the madness is that all functions that read the Mapbook (including the HTML/Javascript) would be required to use "getMapbook()."  The "getMapbook()" function will be the responsible for decoding any sort of security settings and then disse
> minating the appropriate information to all of the requestors.
> 
> I will work on making this more configurable and document how to change it.
> 
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>
>> To: GeoMOOSE Users List <geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 10:50:49 AM
>> Subject: [Geomoose-users] GeoMoose 2 and PHP requirement
>>
>>    One thing I like about GeoMoose 1.6.1 is that PHP is optional (if you want 
>> the advanced features of printing, buffering, and selection, you'll need to get 
>> it working).  I could render my  layers, pan/zoom, etc, all without PHP setup on 
>> the server.
>>
>>
>>   It looks like PHP is now mandatory with GeoMoose2.  The main culprits are 
>> htdocs\geomoose\main.js:57:    
>>       OpenLayers.loadURL('php/getmapbook.php', {}, {}, onLoadedMapbook);
>>
>> and php/getmapbook.php:
>>       header('Content-type: application/xml;text/xml');
>>       $mapbook = getMapbook();
>>       print $mapbook->saveXML();
>>
>> where getMapbook() is defined as:
>>     $mapbook->load('../../conf/'.$CONFIGURATION['mapbook']);
>>
>> which basically sends the mapbook declared in the settings.ini to the browser as 
>> XML.
>>
>> For those of us implementing using IIS, or implementing GeoMoose for the first 
>> time, it can be a major pain just trying to get to the "Hello World" stage. 
>>
>>
>>    Some recommendations:
>>
>> 1. Make the getmapbook url configurable (so I can do 'asp/getmapbook.asp', or 
>> use python, perl, etc).  Or can it be defaulted to a simple 'htdocs/mapbook.xml' 
>> url?
>>
>> 2. Make sure you document that PHP is now a requirement of GeoMoose2.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Brent Fraser
>>
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