[mapserver-users] PHP and Mapscript: .map file needed

[Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au]

I use a .map file as an easy way of initialising and/or testing my app.
In the longer term, I'm thinking about putting the layer definitions
ito a DB with the data and using that to create map objects.

Antti

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Smith [mailto:paul at cnt.org]
Sent: Thursday, 5 September 2002 9:06 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: [mapserver-users] PHP and Mapscript: .map file needed


Hi, I'm new to the list and fairly new to MapServer. I've just started 
running MapScript with PHP, and I'm wondering, since all of the objects 
of the .map file are accessible via the various classes, what is the 
need of the .map file at all in a MapScript environment? I'm asking out 
of a bit of willful ignorance, in that I haven't actually tried it 
without a .map file, but maybe I would like to know more generally its 
importance in this situation.

Paul

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Paul Smith <paul at cnt.org>
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Chicago, IL USA