[mapserver-users] Mapserver CGI variable: img. (FWD)

[Frank Koormann]

Tim,

* teb (teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu) [020208 18:29]:
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> I am using an img src tag to run mapserver.  It almost does what I want.  4
> gifs are created and dumped into my tmp directory.   My problem is that I
> want to be able to control the name of these gifs.   I tried setting the img
> cgi variable like in the following tag (&img=data1)  hoping  that that would
> set the value of the main map gif but it does'nt work.  The map name still
> comes out something like data110130986502268.gif.   Is there a way to
> execute mapserver like I have below (which again works) and be able to set
> the value of the gif's that get created and dumped into my tmp directory?
> 

Mostly:
o The "NAME" Tag of the mapfile defined the start of the file name(s)
o Using the CGI-Parameter "ID" you can replace the uniq session id based
  on system time and process id by an identifier of your choice. 
o The "leg", "ref" etc will still remain to differentiate the images
  generated within one session.

See 
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc/mapfile-reference.html
and
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc/cgi-reference.html
for more details.

Regards,

        Frank

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