[Mapserver-users] Mapscript: using URLs etc...

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Hi everyone,

Thanks to all those who've given me the benefit of their experience re. 
mapscript vs javascript.  I've certainly got some things to think about!

I'm still trying to get my head around how a mapscript application runs, so 
firstly, are there any more examples of perl mapscript applications?  The main 
mapserver site has pretty good documentation for php mapscript, but as I don't 
know php, it's not as easy as it might be for me to translate the examples into 
perl.

Also, more specific to my application, I wanted to ask if creating a MapServer 
application using MapScript will still allow me to utilise an opening html 
page, on which are hyperlinks to various geographical features (as well as a 
link to a map which shows all of these features on a world map).  At the 
moment, the individual hyperlinks are generated dynamically according to the 
current data, and have been set up so that the full url provides the detail of 
the extent of the map to show each relevant feature and so on.  If I'm not 
using a template file, but instead using a script making MapScript calls, is 
this approach still going to work?

Any thoughts, or further explanations/examples of how to write an application 
using perl MapScript would be great.

Many thanks in advance,
Ali