simple query on shapefile [solved!]

[dylan]

Brant,

thank you very much for the pointers!! after adding the query template all
was well... furthermore, after reviewing the docs that you sent my way i am
starting to get a better idea of how mapserver works!!

thanks again! mapserver is great!!


--
Dylan E. Beaudette
Soil Science Graduate Group
Dept. of Land, Air, and Water Resources
University of California at Davis


on 04.8.24 5:20 PM, Brant Anderson at brant at MUDLABS.COM was reported to have
writen:

> Greetings Dylan,
>
> WEB
> TEMPLATE  'map.html' # This is what I consider the "GLOBAL" browse mode
> template... to do a query, you need a template assigned to that layer.
> IMAGEPATH '/home/dylan/public_html/mapserver/ca_county/temp/'
> IMAGEURL  '/~dylan/mapserver/ca_county/temp/'
> END
>
>
> Here is your current layer definition:
> # Start of LAYER DEFINITIONS ---------------------------------------------
> LAYER # ca county polygon layer begins here
> NAME ca_cnty
> TYPE POLYGON
> CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
> CONNECTION "ca_cnty.shp"
> #DATA "SELECT * from poly"
> STATUS DEFAULT
> CLASS
> COLOR 50 100 220
> OUTLINECOLOR 32 32 32
> END
> END # ca county polygon layer ends here
> # End of LAYER DEFINITIONS -------------------------------
>
>
> Here is a modified version of your layer:
> # Start of LAYER DEFINITIONS ---------------------------------------------
> LAYER # ca county polygon layer begins here
> NAME ca_cnty
> TYPE POLYGON
> CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
> CONNECTION "ca_cnty.shp"
> #DATA "SELECT * from poly"
> STATUS DEFAULT
> HEADER 'templates/ca_cnty_header.html' # Appears once as the header
> FOOTER 'templates/ca_cnty_footer.html' # Appears once as the footer
> CLASS
> COLOR 50 100 220
> OUTLINECOLOR 32 32 32
> TEMPLATE 'templates/ca_cnty.html # Loops one instance for each record. This is
> the template file that will be read for querying on this layer... If you query
> on multiple layers, you may want to add a HEADER and FOOTER tag to the WEB
> section.
> END
> END # ca county polygon layer ends here
> # End of LAYER DEFINITIONS -------------------------------
>
> Here are a couple of links that might be helpful:
> Mapfile Reference: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc42/mapfile-reference.html
> Template Reference:
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc42/template-reference.html
>
> A good way to get a grasp on this is through experimentation. Look at
> the generated HTML code for patterns as a guide to help troubleshoot any
> problems.
>
> Hope this helps!
> Good Luck!
>
> Brant Anderson
>
>
>
> Dylan Beaudette wrote:
>
>> greetings,
>>
>> i am trying to query a simple map of california counties here:
>> http://169.237.34.168/~dylan/mapserver/ca_county/map.html
>>
>> however, when the mode is set to nquery, a click on the map results in
>> the following error:
>> msQueryByPoint(): Search returned no results. No matching record(s)
>> found.
>>
>> i have tried looking over some of the example mapserver  pages, but
>> cannot figure out how the query mechanism really works...
>>
>> any points on how to get a working query system setup?
>>
>> here is the source for my .map file:
>>
>> http://169.237.34.168/~dylan/mapserver/ca_county/ca_county.map
>>
>> any ideas?
>>
>> thanks in advance!
>>
>> Dylan Beaudette
>>
>