Query template file question

[Brent Fraser]

Jim,

  I'm not sure what version of MapServer you're running, but if
it's recent, have a look at the mapserv.ini file.  It has an entry
for setting the template extension:

# File extention of template html files. Should be a regular expression.
This
# usually doesn't need to be changed.
TEMPLATE_EXTENSION=\.html$

I'm not sure if this will solve your problem though.  If it doesn't,
perhaps you could explain the flow of control between mapserver
and PHP3 in more detail.

Brent Fraser


----- Original Message -----
From: Jim T. Bowen (GAIA Consultants Inc.) <bowenj at gaiaenv.com>
To: MapServer <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 8:40 AM
Subject: Query template file question


> Hi all,
>
> Probably a question for Steve, but perhaps someone else can help.
>
> We are using PHP3 to access database information via our site.  We are
> also using PHP3 to link MapServer with PostgreSQL.  The links are
> rudimentary at this point, but show potential.  At this point, all we
> have in place is:  Query function passes a unique id to PHP3 script that
> then performs a query on PostgreSQL and dynamically creates html
> output.
>
> My question lies in the 'query template' identified in the MapServer map
> file.  The docs indicate that output can be passed to an URL or template
> file.  I cannot find docs or eg. relating to passing the query info. to
> an URL.  I would like to do this because MapServer does not recognise a
> .PHP3 extension as a valid html template file.  I think I found where I
> would need to change this in the source, but perhaps someone could shed
> some light on this (C is not my forte).  I do not want to dick with my
> apache settings...I believe source change would be fastest and least
> intrusive to our web server.  Currently, I have a temporary html
> template that grabs MapServer variables, and passes them via the URL
> string, using an http-equiv redirect. (yuck)
>
> I would have included the URL for the site, but the information is
> confidential (client request...sorry).  Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
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