[mapserver-users] Perl/mapscript error

[Puneet Kishor]

I rebuilt Mapserver and mapsript. The stock examples (shpinfo.pl and 
dump.pl) work fine. But then...

I am trying out the simplest of code (after sdl's mapquakes.pl)...

1: my $rootdir = "/Users/pkishor/Sites/ms";
2: my $imgdir = "/$rootdir/tmp/";
3: my $imgurl = "/~pkishor/ms/tmp/";
4: my $map = "/$rootdir/map/my.map";
5: my $imgid = $$ . time() . ".png";
6: my $mapobj = new mapObj("$map");
7: my $img = $mapobj->prepareImage();
8: mapscript::msSaveImage($img,
                        $imgdir . $imgid,
                        $mapobj->{imagetype},
                        $mapobj->{transparent},
                        $mapobj->{interlace},
                        $mapobj->{imagequality});

I get the following error... obviously prepareImage is failing because 
$mapobj can't be created on line 6 to begin with. What is causing the 
following "Uncaught exception..."



[Sat Apr 27 10:18:27 2002] [error] Uncaught exception from user code:
	Can't call method "prepareImage" on an undefined value at 
/Users/pkishor/Sites/palatine/perl/index.pl line 16.
	Apache::ROOT::_7epkishor::palatine::perl::index_2epl::handler('Apache=SCALAR(
0xcccd0)') called at /System/Library/Perl/darwin/Apache/Registry.pm line 
143
	eval {...} called at /System/Library/Perl/darwin/Apache/Registry.pm 
line 143
	Apache::Registry::handler('Apache=SCALAR(0xcccd0)') called at 
/dev/null line 0
	eval {...} called at /dev/null line 0

[Sat Apr 27 10:34:49 2002] [error] Can't call method "prepareImage" on 
an undefined value at /Users/pkishor/Sites/palatine/perl/index.pl line 
16.