[Mapserver-users] functions to parse a map file?

[Vladimir Guzmán]

Mark:
If you're using PHP Mapscript, you can access the layer's information 
using something like this:

for($i=0;$i< $map->numlayers;$i++){
$layer=$map->getLayer($i);
print_r($layer);
}

Hope that helps,

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Vladimir Ilich Guzmán R.
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Mark Adams wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We are developing a sample site with Mapserver 4.2 and PHP mapscript. 
> We’d like to add some custom functions that require that we can 
> determine at run time certain aspects of the layers being published 
> through the map file, for example what type of data the layer is (e.g. 
> raster, shapefile), what its geometry type is (e.g. polygon, line), 
> etc. We had been thinking we’d parse the map file on initial load, and 
> access it programmatically from a set of arrays; but as the map file 
> structure is not XML based there isn’t an easy way of parsing the map 
> file directly. Are there any built-in functions available to allow us 
> to do this?
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
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