[mapserver-users] getExtent / setExtent problems

[Daniel Morissette]

Puneet Kishor wrote:
> 
> Anyone, any idea how I can retrieve the row_id for a shape.dbf without
> actually having to add that as a field?
> 

When you call dbase_get_record() or dbase_get_record_with_names() to
read a DBF record you have to pass a record_id ... the corresponding
shapeid is (record_id - 1)

In other words, the shapeids in the .shp files are in the same sequence
as the records in the DBF... it's just that shapeids start at 0 in
MapScript, and DBF recordids start at 1 in the PHP dbase module.

> --
> 
> a house-keeping question --
> 
> I find that the messages I post to the mapserver list take several hours to
> appear in my email... 5-8 hours delay. Does the mapserver listserver not
> broadcast the posted emails immediately? Seems not, so, is it not possible
> to do so?
> 

You're not the first one to report this... I'm lucky I'm probably in the
first 100 in the list and get the messages within 30 minutes but I heard
of up to 9 hours delays from others too.

I Emailed Steve about this not long ago... and he forwarded my request
to the list admins but I still have no news.

I never administered a list like this, but perhaps a cleanup of the
addresses that fail too often could help?  Or perhaps offering a
daily-digest option (for those who want it) could reduce the load on the
mail server and help a bit?


> Is it possible to migrate to a web-based forums so we can access the forums
> (and not just the archives) from anywhere? I use Cold Fusion driven forums a
> lot (Macromedia's CF support forums are on the web), and the Forums software
> is open source, although it does require a CF server (I might be able to
> convince my company to host 'em). There are other cgi-driven forums as well.
> 

Please no!!!!!  Unless there is still an option to receive the messages
and reply by Email.  ;)
I hate those web-only forums where it takes forever to read and reply to
a message.  (Of course, that's just my opinion :)


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