[Mapserver-users] Read all fields of dbf file when querying

[Vincent Schut]

Stefan,

I think php has dbf support built in or as an extension. See 
http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/ref.dbase.php . So using this and mapscript you 
should be able to tackle the problem, I think.

Cheers,
Vincent.

On Thursday 07 August 2003 16:07, Stefan Schwarzer wrote:
> Thanks Daniel,
>
> but unfortunately I do not know the names of the fields, so that I can't
> access the fields like "$population = $shape->values["Population"];", but
> rather I should retrieve the results by using the column-number [0, 1, 2,
> ....]. But this does not work. Any further suggestion?
>
> Stefan
>
> >Stefan Schwarzer wrote:
> >>can anyone give me a hint/an example on how can I read with mapscript/PHP
> >>*all fields* in the dbf-part of a shapefile? For a couple of layers I
> >>would like to display upon a query request all fields - and not those
> >>predefined in the METADATA tag.
> >
> >When you read query results using $layer->getShape(), the shapeObj
> >contains an array member called 'values' that contains all the field
> >values for this shape.  See the shapeObj docs at
> >http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc40/phpmapscript-class-guide.html#ShapeObj
> >
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> >  Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
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