[Mapserver-users] How to select layer to display from a pop-up list?

[J. Tomasz Giermakowski]

Hello,

I have a newbie question: i need to be able to select one to five layers
to display from a list of over 120. They are polygons of distribution
maps. Do I have to setup a template .map file with 124 shapefiles and
layer definitions or a shapefile with 124 features (they are polygons)?
the first solution would not be hard, but the colors have to be
dynamically created so that if someone wants to look at 5 layers at the
same time, they are shown in different colors. Would PHP solve that
problem? Can you pass PHP variables to the .map file?
 
thanks ahead.
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J. Tom Giermakowski
Division of Amphibians and Reptiles
Museum of Southwestern Biology		tel: 505.277.5130
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University of New Mexico		email: tomas at unm.edu
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