[Geoprisma-dev] PHP OO to generate a mapfile

[Daniel Morissette]

My quick comment on this based on past experience with MapLab is that 
maintaining a mapfile parser that works across MapServer versions is a 
very daunting task, and using MapScript for editing mapfiles is not a 
viable option either.

That's why we started working on a XML encoding for mapfiles... so that 
external editors can use the XML encoding, and apply the XLST to convert 
to text mapfile at deployment time. More info at:

   http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/XMLMapfiles

Daniel

Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> 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
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Daniel Morissette
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