[mapserver-users] Filtering Shapefile attributes in PHP?
Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au
Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au
Thu Jan 31 14:50:01 PST 2002
Hi all,
I have a number of ways I can take a Shapefile's
attribute table and pull items into PHP, either by
using PHP/Mapscript to query each shape's attributes
or by using the native PHP DBF functions (which won't
get me the spatial data, but I can work around that).
The problem is that the shapefile DBF can return multiple
records and donuts, while I just want each distinct result.
In most instances, this returns too many records to be
manageable as an array in PHP.
Even if I could get the query to return the results in
alphabetical order, I could filter the results as I send
them to the web browser.
This would be easy with SQL, but I can't find anything like
it for DBFs.
Ideas?
Antti
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