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

[Brent Fraser]

Or just use php_ogr and set the driver to SpatialLite...

> We could also look at porting to SpatiaLite as another option... not quite
> as flexible for some things but definitely fixes a few problems with using
> a shapefile as a dependency.  Might make Jim happier because we could
> support text fields with more than 255 characters....
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>
>> To: Dan Little <danlittle at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: GeoMOOSE Users List <geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>> Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 2:24:19 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] getting started, running the demos
>> question
>>
>> I've attached the write example.  It doesn't look too bad (as long as it
>> works).
>>
>> > Oh I know OGR can do it, it's a matter of whether or not there are PHP
>> > binding that make those capabilities useful.
>> >
>> >>
>> >>From: John Callahan
>> >>To: bfraser at geoanalytic.com
>> >>Cc: Dan Little ; GeoMOOSE Users List
>> >>
>> >>Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 2:12:20 PM
>> >>Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] getting started, running the demos
>> question
>> >>
>> >>It also looks like OGR can create simple DBF files by using the ESRI
>> >> Shapefile driver and specifying the SHPT option as null.  Haven't
>> tried
>> >> it though.
>> >>
>> >>http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_shapefile.html
>> >>
>> >>- John
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Brent Fraser
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>>Looking at the file dates at
>> >>>http://dl.maptools.org/dl/php_ogr/
>> >>>>>makes me skeptical about binaries being available in a timely
>> >>>>> fashion...
>> >>>
>> >>>>>But the source is included in gdal distribution (swig/php)
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>>> I haven't used the OGR/PHP bindings, if they are reasonable then
>> >>>>>> yes, but
>> >>>>>> I *thought* OGR only did standard SWIG bindings (perl, python,
>> >>>>>> ruby).