[Mapserver-users] converting to perl

[Jon Shorie]

I will be more specific.  I currently have a mapserver application up on a 
local network.  My eventual goal is to integrate mapserver into some of our 
backend database processing applications.  Initially I am just looking to be 
able to run some perl code of a user of the mapserver queries on a layer.  
What I would like to do is to use the layer information to issue a query to a 
backend database which would pull up service information for hydrants if the 
user clicks on the hydrant.  

The way that I am handling this currently is to have an html page called by 
the query on the layer like so:

<tr><td>[ID]</td><td>[NUMBER]</td><td>[NEWFIELD1]</td>
<td>[NAME]</td><td>Click <a 
href=http://172.16.40.17/cgi-bin/publichydrants/resultshydrant.cgi?sort=none&hydrantname=[NAME]>
Here</a> for data on this hydrant<td></tr>

Here is the reference in the mcse.map file.

LAYER
  NAME hydrants
  TYPE POINT
  MAXSCALE 300000
  STATUS DEFAULT
  DATA hydrants

  CLASS
    NAME "Hydrants"
    TEMPLATE "hydrants.html"
    COLOR 255 0 0
    SYMBOL 'circle'
    SIZE 7
  END

What this method does is if the user queries a hydrants feature they get a 
page that says clieck here for data on this hydrant.  If the user then clicks 
on the link sends the hydrantname to a perl script that queries the database.

What I would prefer to do is to have the query to directly to the perl script 
and not even bring up the intermediate page.

Is this possible?








On Tuesday 25 February 2003 11:17, you wrote:
> OK - if you can explain a bit about what you're trying to do, we'll try to
> help.
>
> 	- Ed
>
> Ed McNierney
> President and Chief Mapmaker
> TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
> 73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
> North Chelmsford, MA  01863
> ed at topozone.com
> (978) 251-4242
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Shorie [mailto:jshorie at medinaco.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 11:21 AM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] converting to perl
>
>
> I am trying to use Perl to generate input for mapserver
>
> On Tuesday 25 February 2003 11:09, you wrote:
> > Jon -
> >
> > I'm not quite sure what your question is.  Are you trying to get
> > MapServer to process template files to generate Perl output that then
> > gets processed and sent to the client?  Or are you trying to use Perl to
> > generate input for MapServer?
> >
> > 	- Ed
> >
> > Ed McNierney
> > President and Chief Mapmaker
> > TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
> > 73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
> > North Chelmsford, MA  01863
> > ed at topozone.com
> > (978) 251-4242
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jon Shorie [mailto:jshorie at medinaco.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 10:50 AM
> > To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> > Subject: [Mapserver-users] converting to perl
> >
> >
> > I am in the process of trying to convert a mapserver application to perl
> > from raw html.  Here is a portion of my mcse.map file.
> >
> > WEB
> >   HEADER mcse_header.html
> >   TEMPLATE mcse.html
> >   FOOTER mcse_footer.html
> >   MINSCALE 1000
> >   MAXSCALE 1550000
> >   IMAGEPATH "set in mcse_init.html"
> >   IMAGEURL "set in mcse_init.html"
> >   METADATA
> >     WMS_TITLE "MCSE GIS Application"
> >     WMS_ABSTRACT "This is the Demo of a GIS System for MCSE.  It is based
> > on the mapserver demo application."
> >     WMS_ACCESSCONSTRAINTS none
> >
> >     # change this value to match your setup
> >     WMS_ONLINERESOURCE
> > "http://172.16.40.17/cgi-bin/mcsegis/mcse_init.cgi"
> >
> >     WMS_SRS "EPSG:26915"
> >   END
> > END
> >
> >
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