[mapserver-users] OT kinda - session vars on php 4.1.2

[Puneet Kishor]

Not sure what you mean by "store my maps"...

if you are referring to mapObj, you can't... it is really a complex
structure that PHP can't handle in session.

since you say you were able to do this with 4.0.6, I am assuming you are not
referring to the mapObj, but perhaps to something else that allows you to
reconstruct a mapObj.

perhaps all the various variables that you might use to define a map at any
given call (zoomfactor, visible layers, highlighted features, extent,
whatnot). or you can write out your mapObj to a mapfile that you can later
refer to.

you might want to store the temp mapfile against a user's name using cookies
or variables you insert in a database to track the user's prefs, etc.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Burgholzer [mailto:rburghol at vt.edu]
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 5:04 PM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: [mapserver-users] OT kinda - session vars on php 4.1.2
> 
> 
> Hey,
> I know this is a little off topic, but I am trying to store my maps in
> session vars, and am having trouble. I have used sessions 
> quite a bit on
> 4.0.6, but they never seem to "take" on 4.1.2. I am trying to store a
> map in a session var, could this be my problem? (I don;t know why it
> should, but what the hey).
> 
> Any help would really be appreciated.
> 
> thanks,
> 
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