[Mapserver-users] application opinions

[Tyler Mitchell]

I'd suggest using a single dbf for it all, but add in a filter to only show
that user's info.  When they enter their data, you could track their logged
in username (or IP?) and store it as an attribute in the table.  Wouldn't
that work?

Tyler

mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu wrote on 11/15/2003 07:04:09 AM:

> Hi,
>
> I wanted to bounce some ideas off you guys wrt an application using ms.
> In this app, a user:
>
> *submits some input parameters via a web form
> *an econometric model is run utilizing these params
> *the output file is parsed and a dbf file is updated
> *user is re-directed to ms for querying/zooming etc.The dbf file
> that is updated is the attribute file of the shape file use for mapping
>
> While this scenario seems ok for a single user, I think that things
> would getconfusing for multiple users; meaning how to separate
> userA's updated dbf from userN's dbf...Keeping multiple copies of
> the shape/dbf is kind of costly as the dbf is 25Mb, and the shape is
~10Mb...
>
> AFAIK, ms-cgi works with a shape/dbf pair of the same name. Can you
> have ms work with additional  dbf and the same shape file?
> In the app, I need to update only 4, out of 57 fields, by ~39000
> records, so the thinking would be to use the original dbf and create
> an additional user[pid].dbf for the duration of the user sesion...
>
> i am sure that there other things I did not think about, so feedback
> would be welcome.....
>
>
> regards,
>
> nicolas boretos
>
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