[Geoprisma-dev] PHP OO to generate a mapfile

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Happy New Year Everyone,

Over the holidays, I took a stab at generating OO PHP Classes that can 
take a PHP hash array and turn it into a mapfile. It works quite well 
but probably needs to additional refactoring. You can see the hash, the 
mapfile and the map image here.

http://imaptools.com:8080/work/testMapfile2.php

I want to add a mapfile parser to read a mapfile and create the hash 
and/or the object tree directly.

My thoughts behind this effort are that it might be useful for building 
a tool that could be used as part of shapefile upload tool that would 
also need to generate or modify a mapfile. While I am not using 
mapscript and prefer not to to keep installation and configuration 
simple, this could also be extended to pass the mapfile directly to 
mapscript so you could provide realtime sample images of styling 
changes. The current demo is using cgi mapserver.

Thoughts on this?
I think some of you have thought about a shapefile upload tool.

-Steve W