Opening shapefiles with mapscript ms_newShapefileObj coprupting my shapefiles

[Daniel Morissette]

Janeks Kamerovskis wrote:
>
> Following code lines damaging my shapefiles so that stays only with 100
> bytes:
>
> ******code*********
>
> $myShapeFile = ms_newShapefileObj($pathFile, MS_SHP_POLYGON);
>

The line above tries to create a new file of type polygon. To open an
existing file you should pass -1 as the type:

$myShapeFile = ms_newShapefileObj($pathFile, -1);

Daniel
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