[Mapserver-users] Adding custom text to a feature

[Lowell Filak]

Will "text" under "labelobj" do the trick?
Lowell

The following message was sent by "Benjamin Wragg" <bwragg at tpg.com.au>
on Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:59:37 +0930.

> Hi list,
>  
> I'm trying to figure out how to label a feature with a custom piece of
> text. For example in the application we've built, a user can choose a
> town, country or draw a point, line or polygon on the map. If a user
> selects a country for example I can easily label the country with it's
> name, but I want to label it with some custom text like, "Search
> country", "Search point" or "Search feature". Is there a way to do this
> with mapscript? I have a feeling I've read something about this on the
> list but I can't find anything in the archives.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Benjamin
>  
>