[mapserver-users] creating classes with mapscript

[Daniel Morissette]

Nicolau Werneck wrote:
> 
> ... but this piece of PHP/MapScript code doesn't
> deliver the same results.  The map is displayed as if
> the class is empty. The layer definition if there on
> the .map, but no classes are defined on it:
> 
> $cla =
> ms_newClassObj($map->getLayerByName("empresas"));
> $cla->setexpression("'3144508'");
> $cla->label->type=MS_TRUETYPE;
> $cla->label->font="verdanai";
> $cla->label->size=7;
> $cla->label->color=$cor;
> $cla->label->position=MS_UL;
> 
> shouldn't it give the SAME results?
> 

The first step would be to make sure that you use the set() method to
set your class label parameters.  Simply setting the PHP object member
variables with direct assignments doesn't propagate the values to the
underlying classes in the MapServer core.


 $cla = ms_newClassObj($map->getLayerByName("empresas"));
 $cla->setexpression("'3144508'");
 $cla->label->set("type", MS_TRUETYPE);
 $cla->label->set("font", "verdanai");
 $cla->label->set("size", 7);
 $cla->label->set("color", $cor);
 $cla->label->set("position", MS_UL);

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