[Mapserver-users] mapscript vs mapsever

[Espen Isaksen]

Ok, the answer is kind of what I expected. I guess I should rephrase my
question. Why would I want to use Mapscript? Which benefits does it give
me? Simply better control?

Espen Isaksen
Norway





>Theoretically nothing. mapscript gives you access to the basic mapserver
>functionality in an API.  mapserver CGI will handle all your form input
>parsing, template parsing, etc.  With mapscript you need to do all that
yourself.

>With mapscript you need to write your own CGI program which must make
all the drawing decisions, etc.