[Mapserver-dev] Serious conflict with other php packages

Daniel Morissette dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca
Fri May 21 18:47:16 EDT 2004


Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Rodrigues, Joseph wrote:
> 
>>
>> The known problem:
>>  Chartdirector has a Class called 'Line' and 'Layer' and causes a
>> conflict with php as phpmapscript has classes with the same name.  The
>> result is neither works without changing the one class name.
>>
>> I use Mapserver with phpmapscript to build charts on the fly and graph
>> them using Chartdirector.  I want to suggest a name change to MSLine and
>> MSLayer or anything else of your choice to differentiate from such
>> generic names as Line and Layer.  I made a similar suggestion to Peter
>> Kwan of Chartdirector.
>>
> 
> 
> I have filed a bug about this, we'll try to do something about this for
> the 4.4 release: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=672
> 

For the record, I just found this was already fixed about 1 year ago 
before the release of V4.0.  So this would happen only with v3.6 or 
older and upgrading to 4.0 or 4.2 will solve the issue for you.

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