[Geomoose-users] getting started, running the demos question

John Callahan john.callahan at udel.edu
Tue Jan 5 13:29:10 EST 2010


That's good to hear.  Thanks Brent.   Did you also edit the config.php to
get rid of the dl() calls? or the php_dbase.dll dependence (which I couldn't
find in the ms4w 3.0 beta distribution)?

- John


On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>wrote:

> GM 2.2 (from SVN) running on MS4W 3.0 beta works ok after I edited the
> mapbook.xml (for things we need to change anyway for the 2.2 Beta release).
> Creation of PDF,HTML, and jpg documents for Printing using PHP seems to
> work ok too.
>
> Brent
>
>
> Brent Fraser wrote:
> > I just installed MS4W on a clean XP virtual machine.  Apache would not
> start; I
> > had to install the VC++ 2008 redist package
> > (
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9B2DA534-3E03-4391-8A4D-074B9F2BC1BF&displaylang=en
> )
> >
> > Then it started and PHP reported:
> >
> > MapScript
> > MapServer Version  MapServer version 5.4.2 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG
> OUTPUT=JPEG
> > OUTPUT=WBMP OUTPUT=PDF OUTPUT=SWF OUTPUT=SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=AGG
> > SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=ICONV SUPPORTS=FRIBIDI SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER
> > SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT
> SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER
> > SUPPORTS=SOS_SERVER SUPPORTS=FASTCGI SUPPORTS=THREADS SUPPORTS=GEOS
> > SUPPORTS=RGBA_PNG INPUT=JPEG INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL
> INPUT=SHAPEFILE
> >
> > PHP MapScript Version  ($Revision: 9099 $ $Date: 2009-06-09 00:39:18
> -0300 (Tue,
> > 09 Jun 2009) $)
> >
> > so I'm encouraged.  I'll try GM next...
> >
> > Brent
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Brian Fischer wrote:
> >> I really haven’t tested MS4W 3.0 beta 7 with GM yet.  I tried when it
> >> was in beta 2 and ran into some of these same problems.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I would suggest if there are specific things we need added to MS4W to
> >> make things work with GM 2.2 we submit a bug.  Kind of like the
> >> Mapbender project did in this bug
> >> http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2086.  Then if it is not
> to
> >> hard for them to add they will do it.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Is the dbase .dll the only thing?  I think when GM 2.2 comes out we need
> >> to explain the quirks of the dl() function.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> *Brian Fischer,* CFM  GIS Project Manager
> >> *Houston Engineering, Inc.*
> >> Phone: W: 763.493.4522 / M: 763.229.2734
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> *From:* Dan Little [mailto:danlittle at yahoo.com]
> >> *Sent:* Monday, January 04, 2010 10:05 AM
> >> *To:* John Callahan
> >> *Cc:* GeoMOOSE Users List
> >> *Subject:* Re: [Geomoose-users] getting started, running the demos
> question
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> We will probably not delay 2.2 in order to be PHP 5.3 ready.  I would
> >> expect that if we're going to focus on PHP 5.3/MS4W 3.0 then we're going
> >> to need to rollout a 2.2.(1/2/5) that subsumes it as a "bug fix."
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>     *From:* John Callahan <john.callahan at udel.edu>
> >>     *To:* Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>
> >>     *Cc:* Dan Little <danlittle at yahoo.com>;
> >>     geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> >>     *Sent:* Mon, January 4, 2010 10:01:07 AM
> >>     *Subject:* Re: [Geomoose-users] getting started, running the demos
> >>     question
> >>
> >>     Thanks Dan/Brent.
> >>
> >>     Would you say that GeoMoose 2.2 would be tested/modified to work
> >>     with MapServer 5.4.x and PHP 5.3 (and therefore MS4W 3.0 from a
> >>     Windows perspective)?   Actually, GM 2.2 could probably work for all
> >>     MapServer 5.x versions....
> >>
> >>     And that GeoMoose 2.0.x works with MapServer 5.2.x and PHP 5.2 (and
> >>     therefore MS4W 2.3.x)?
> >>
> >>
> >>     I wouldn't mind using GM 2.2 with PHP 5.2 (at least temporarily) if
> >>     I can find a php_mapscript dll based on PHP 5.2 that works with
> >>     MapServer 5.4.2.
> >>
> >>     - John
> >>
> >>
> >>     On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Brent Fraser
> >>     <bfraser at geoanalytic.com <mailto:bfraser at geoanalytic.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     Dan, John,
> >>
> >>      I agree; we need to test GM 2.2 with MS4W 3.0.  I'll have a look at
> >>     the beta.
> >>
> >>     I see that PHP's dl() is deprecated (due to security and threading
> >>     issues), but the doc doesn't say what the replacement is (use the
> >>     PHP.ini?).  I think our plan would be to modify config.php to test
> >>     if a module is loaded (as it does now) and just give a message if it
> >>     isn't:
> >>
> >>     if(!extension_loaded('gd') && !extension_loaded('gd2')) {
> >>            printf( 'Please ensure the following extension is loaded
> >>     using php.ini:'.'php_gd2.'.PHP_SHLIB_SUFFIX);
> >>     }
> >>
> >>     Unless there's a better way?
> >>
> >>     As for the php.dbase.dll, we could ask the MS4W people to include
> it...
> >>
> >>     Best Regards,
> >>     Brent Fraser
> >>
> >>     Dan Little wrote:
> >>
> >>     I think we simply need to do more testing on the more bleeding edge
> >>     software.  In some regard, we have enough issues keeping up with
> >>     browser changes.  Moving past developer excuses,  I'm running OS/X
> >>     10.5.something and a few variants of debian and I believe they all
> >>     have PHP 5.2, which is why there is probably some quirks when moving
> >>     t o PHP 5.3.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>     Brian/Len/Brent, any help on your versions? I just really don't use
> >>     Windows for anything but running IE...
> >>
> >>
> >>        *From:* John Callahan <john.callahan at udel.edu
> >>     <mailto:john.callahan at udel.edu>>
> >>        *To:* geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> >>     <mailto:geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> >>        *Sent:* Sun, January 3, 2010 8:31:42 AM
> >>
> >>        < b>Subject: [Geomoose-users] getting started, running the demos
> >>
> >>
> >>        question
> >>
> >>        I'm trying to setup GeoMoose but ran into a problem that I'm not
> >>        sure how to fix.  After several hours of modifying my
> environment,
> >>        here's where I'm at now:
> >>
> >>
> >>        Windows OS
> >>
> >>        Apache 2.2.11
> >>
> >>        PHP 5.3.1  (VC6 x86 Thread Safe (2009-Nov-19 10:20:08) from
> >>        http://windows.php.net/download/)
> >>
> >>        MapServer 5.4.2 with PHP_MapScript from ms4w_3.0_beta7 2009-09-01
> >>
> >>      (
> http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?page=README_INSTALL_3.0.html)
> >>
> >>        GeoMoose from moose2-trunk as downloaded from the tarball as of
> Jan
> >>        1.  ( I choose this over the 2.0.1 release because I liked some
> of
> >>        the changes in 2.2.)
> >>
> >>
> >>        Apparently, the php dl() function is now deprecated as of PHP
> >>     5.3.    Even with the enable_dl set to 'On' in php.ini, it still
> >>     throws an
> >>        error when trying to run the demo.  GeoMoose uses this function.
> >>        How can I get around that?
> >>
> >>        Also, I see GeoMoose uses php_dbase extension.  That dll is not
> in
> >>        the PHP or MS4W distributions I downloaded.  I did see a php_ogr
> dll
> >>        in MW4W though.  How can I get around this?
> >>
> >>
> >>        Lastly, I tried using php 5.2.8 and I WAS able to get the
> GeoMoose
> >>        demo mostly working.  However, some problems were occurring,
> likely
> >>        because I didn't have php_mapscript, or maybe a wrong version.  I
> >>        switched to php 5.3 because I couldn't find a php_mapscript for
> >>
> >>        MapServer 5.4.2 for p hp 5.2.x and because it was what MS4W
> >>
> >>
> >>        currently supports.
> >>
> >>        Thanks for any help or thoughts.
> >>
> >>        - John
> >>
> >>        **************************************************
> >>        John Callahan, Geospatial Application Developer
> >>        Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware
> >>        URL: http://www.dgs.udel.edu
> >>        **************************************************
> >>
> >>
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