[Mapserver-users] Using MapServer as a Database Query Engine: is it possible?

[Eduardo Patto Kanegae]

I'm currently working on a MapServer application that was previously( prototype) built using PHPMapScript
and PostGreSQL , because some special features like displaying news at the first page, or a random banner(special news) above the map. or even a list of items found( but not on map, just the fields, like NQUERY mode).

but after analysing the data model for a few minutes the conclusion is that only the news/banners tabke are non-spatial( not shapefiles) table.

so, the easier way for rebuilding the application is to build a new one only using CGI mode .

my question is: is it possible? can I use MapServer CGI engine to query and display in a HTML Table the last 5 news ( more recent), for example?

ps: will be no problem to save the news in a DBF table.


Eduardo Patto Kanegae
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