[Mapserver-users] create and display point obj on the fly

[Kieran J. Ames]

<RANT>
I hear all these things about Mapscript, but pity those of us on an NT box. Will there ever come a day that
we could avail ourselves of Mapscript? (...or have I completely missed something???)
</RANT>

Lowell Filak wrote:

> As an option, Mapscript contains an msDBFCreate(dbf_filename); function.
> Lowell F.
>
> The following message was sent by Lionel Bargeot <l.bargeot at educagri.fr> on 03 Feb 2003 23:19:42 +0100.
>
> > Le lun 03/02/2003 à 23:07, Lionel Bargeot a écrit :
> > > I simply create manualy (touch unix command) an empty dbf file with the
> > > right name and then it works. So my  question is : have I to create
> > > manually an empty dbf file or is there somewhere an option I missed that
> > > provides a mean to create a dbf file with shp and shx ?
> >
> > So I simply added those lines
> >
> > $dbfname="../data/$shapetempname".".dbf";
> > $dbf=fopen("$dbfname", "w");
> > fclose($dbf);
> >
> > and it works fine
> >
> > But if you have a better way to do it, I'm ok to try
> >
> > Lionel
> >
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