CGI and Mapscript

[Steve Lime]

The CGI gives you out-of-the-box capabilities to build applications without scripting- just author a mapfile and if necessary, template(s).

MapScript lets you write your own version of the MapServer CGI that does things the MapServer CGI application cannot do. MapScript is available in many flavors- PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java and so on...

You can use them in tandem. For example, a normal pan/zoom application might just use the CGI, but then you want to trigger some sort of funky query or end-user product creation that uses MapScript.

Steve

>>> Apeksha Bhambhani <beproject06 at YAHOO.COM> 12/22/05 12:56 PM >>>
 hi , 
  
  Could anyone please tell me the difference between using
  1)  Mapserver as a CGI and 
  2)  using Php/Mapscript modules for Mapserver
  
  Thanks ,
  Apeksha
  

		
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