[Mapserver-users] application opinions

[Nicolas Boretos]

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Palle Due Larsen" <palle at mail-online.dk>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:25:08 +0100

 Hi,
Thanx for the feedback. Both suggestions seem like a good idea. I would tend at this time to go with a separate user dbf and join with the main. AFAIK, you can only add fields to a dbf when it is empty, thus you could not add user specific stuff to the same dbf.

Sooo, does some one have an example of a join that uses two dbf's; the "main" one from the shape file and a "second" dbf.
The numbder of records (corresponding to the shp inexes are the same in both).

Could this be added on the fly, just as we change mapfile parameters, eg color, by appending to the cgi url?

help would be appreciated...

regards,

nicolas
>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
>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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,
>> >
>>