[Mapserver-dev] mapserver map file works with html templates only

[Vincent Schut]

Joseph,

firstly,
your question had been better posted on the mapserver-users list 
(mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu), in stead of on the mapserver-dev 
(developers) list, which is about coding the mapserver program, bugs, 
enhancements, etc., not about using it.
Secondly, the answer on your question can be very short: this has already been 
implemented. Mapserver is more flexible then you think, and can be used as a 
cgi application with templates, or with html forms, or in combination with 
php (using the php_mapscript extension for php) or perl or even other 
scripting languages. You should really have a good look at the documentation 
on the mapserver site, it is too much for email :-)
A good start would be the 'php_mapscript by example howto': 
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc36/phpmapscript-byexample-howto.html . But 
have a good look at the other docs as well, and at the wiki pages. There are 
lots of examples of what you are asking for.

Regards,
Vincent Schut.

On Friday 02 May 2003 15:11, Joseph Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am a user at this time and is building an application using Mapserver.
>
> The problem I am facing has to do with the fact that Mapserver seems to
> work with
> HTML templates only in the mapfile (demo.map) for example.
>
> This creates a problem when passing parameters to scripting languages
> such as PHP.
> Since Mapserver uses a few html pages to display its results example
> demo.html, header_demo.html and footer_demo.html etc, one cannot pass
> parameters directly to a PHP script.  This appears to be due to the fact
> that the results you see are really 3 html pages one of which is the
> Template html file.
>
> What I want to do is have a user click on my map and sent the value of
> the click to a script eg.php to do some processing. But sine Mapserver
> only interacts with html, this is acheived indirectly by calling another
> page next.
>
>
> Hope this is not too confusing but my point is: HOW DOES ONE GET
> MAPSERVER TO USE PHP OR OTHER SCRIPT FILES AS HEADER.PHP, FOOTER.PHP,
> TEMPLATE.PHP INSTEAD OF HEADER.HTML, TEMPLATE.HTML ETC. ???
>
> If this feature could be done it would make interacting with Mapserver
> more friendly.
> Thank you
> Joseph
>
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