mixture of perl/mapscript and mapserver

[Joseph Norris]

Lowell Filak wrote:

>As Ed explained, you can not incorporate an image in that manner.
>The only ways I can think to do what you want are:
>1) Setup your mapscript app to provide a WMS reply for supplying the
>image to mapserv under a WMS layer deffinition.
>2) Write a .wld file to go along with the image and include it in the
>mapfile used by your mapserv instance as a raster layer.
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>HTH
>
>Lowell
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>The following message was sent by Joseph Norris <sirronj at PACBELL.NET> on
>Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:36:58 -0800.
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>>Everyone,
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>>I have the following bit of code:
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>>$layerObj->draw($map, $img);
>>$point_layer->draw($map, $img);
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>>my $new_map = "$png_location/" . sprintf("mx%0.10d",rand(1000000000)) .
>>".map";
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>>$map->save($new_map);
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>>my $image_name = "$png_location/" .
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>sprintf("map%0.10d",rand(1000000000)) .
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>>".png";
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>>$img->save($image_name, $map);
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>>$img->free();
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>>my $url = qq!http://$domain/cgi-bin/mapserv!;
>>   $url .= "?map_web_template=$template_path/map_template.html";
>>   $url .= "&zoomsize=5";
>>   $url .= "&zoomdir=1";
>>   $url .= "&zoom=2";
>>   $url .= "&map=$new_map";
>>   $url .= "&map_web_imagepath=$png_location/";
>>   $url .= "&map_web_imageurl=/$http_png_location/";
>>   $url .= "&root=/maps/";
>>   $url .= "&img=$image_name";
>>   $url .= "&program=/cgi-bin/mapserv";
>>   $url .= "&imgext=5890870.385 -192053.200 8943310.847 3226086.749";
>>   $url .= "&mode=browse";
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>>I thought that upon the run of mapserver in my map_template_html I
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>would be
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>>able to load the [img] via the &img=$image_name.  However when it
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>loads I am
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>>getting a whole new image that contains nothing and is not at all the same
>>name that I have built.
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>>I am not sure how to mix these - I would like to start out building my own
>>layers  ( which I have been able to do - thanks to all of your help ),
>>save these out in an image and the load this into mapserver so as to have
>>the browse capability.
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>>Have I made myself clear as mud?
>>
>>Thanks.
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>>#Joseph Norris (Perl - what else is there?/Linux/CGI/Mysql) print
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>@c=map chr
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>$_+100,(6,17,15,16,-68,-3,10,11,16,4,1,14,-68,12,1,14,8,-68,4,-3,-1,7,1,14,-
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>>68,-26,11,15,1,12,4,-68,-22,11,14,14,5,15,-90);
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Ok I am finally back to examining this issue.  How do I set up a reply
to mapserv to supply the image under WMS?

Thanks.