[Mapserver-users] application opinions

[Palle Due Larsen]

I'm not quite sure of this, since I haven't used joins, but couldn't you
join the map-specific dbf with a user-specific one? 

Best regards

Palle Due Larsen
Carl Bro GIS&IT

-----Original Message-----
From: Tyler Mitchell <TMitchell at lignum.com>
To: <nicolas at mail.maich.gr>
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:25:11 -0800
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] application opinions

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> 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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