[mapserver-dev] Parameter for run-time substitution of values inmapfiles (e.g. for highlighting)?

Steve Lime Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us
Thu Apr 24 15:45:42 EDT 2008


I use it all the time and it works fine. It can get kludgy if you're talking about lots of highlighting
but it works well otherwise. What would you like to know?

Steve

>>> On 4/23/2008 at 6:39 PM, in message
<25bc040b0804231639n206e77f4h7e3f599bd92ec543 at mail.gmail.com>, "Stefan Keller"
<sfkeller at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
> I need to highlight a single or a group of POIs and found that MapServer CGI
> has run-time substitution since version 4.0. This would allow to alter
> portions of a mapfile based on data passed via a command line parameter (or
> a CGI request in the case of MapServer). I fond a How-to here about this
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/runsub .
> 
> Does anyone know about the usage of this in mapserver?
> Is there a better or alternate "usage pattern" for highlighting features
> with MapServer (except choosing MapScript)?
> Stefan



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