[mapserver-users] multiple mapserv executables

[Daniel Morissette]

Alexander Pucher wrote:
> 
> OK, clear to me. No problem to call different php_mapscript.so's. Do I
> understand the point, that I do not have to call different mapserv
> executables, only the php_mapscript.so's? So a single mapserv version
> 3.6.2 executable could also serve version 3.4 applications if I call
> dl("php_mapscript_34.so"); in the respective files?
> 

Actually, php_mapscript.so is a _replacement_ for mapserv ... you need
one or the other, but you do not need both.  MapScript (PHP, Perl, ...)
is just a different interface to the same core mapping functionalities
that were used to build the mapserv CGI.


> Maybe I was somewhat imprecise in my first mail, but I don't want to
> call mapserv via an URL, but with the 'imageObj draw()' PHP/MapScript
> function.
> 

The $map->draw() function in MapScript comes with everything it needs to
render a map to PNG/GIF/JPEG and has no dependency on the mapserv CGI.

Daniel
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