HTML template naming

[Doyon, Jean-Francois]

This I beleive is a restriction of CGI Behavior.  The output from a CGI
program is sent straight out to the client, and usually isn't interpreted
anywhere else.  Because you use the CGI Version of mapserver, the templates
HAVE to be static.

At least, so far as I know.  If someone knows how to do what is suggested
here, I'd LOVE to hear about it !

J.F.

> ----------
> From: 	Thorsten Fischer[SMTP:thfischer at mapmedia.de]
> Sent: 	Friday, March 16, 2001 11:58 AM
> To: 	mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: 	HTML template naming
> 
> 
> Dear list,
> 
> 
> I noticed that HTML templates in the WEB section have to be named with a
> .html
> suffix. That means,
> 
> WEB
>   TEMPLATE template.html
>   [ ... stuff .. ]
> END
> 
> will be accepted my mapserver, but
> 
> WEB
>   TEMPLATE template.phtml
>   [ ... stuff .. ]
> END
> 
> will throw the following error:
> 
> Content-type: text/html returnHTML(): Web application error. Malformed
> template
> name.
> 
> My question is: is this a desired behaviour? Some webservers are
> configured to
> let php code be executed from .phtml and/or .php files only. What am I to
> do
> if there is code that must be executed in my .phtml templates?
> 
> I did not check if the same restrictions apply to the header and footer
> directives as well, but I guess that they use the same template name
> parsing.
> 
> 
> Thorsten
> 
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