MySQL or Oracle queries...

[Kevin Grootendorst]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:14:52 -0400, William Bulley <web at UMICH.EDU> wrote:

>I am new to MapServer so please bear with me...
>
>The main MapServer home page makes reference to a feature
>of MapServer that would allow queries to a database like
>MySQL or Oracle no doubt through Perl's DBI module.
>
>My interest is not obtaining points to plot from a table
>in a database, but rather tabular or scalar information
>about a map feature (height of a building, address of a
>store, etc.) that might be selected by a MapServer user.
>
>I am no where near being able to attempt this at my level
>of MapServer knowledge today, but if it is possible to do
>this, could someone point me to a chunk of documentation
>or a WWW page for more information?
>
>I assume that something like this would need to be done
>using MapScript (Perl?) if at all.
>
>Regards,
>
>web...
>
>--
>William Bulley                     Email: web at umich.edu

William,
I too am interested in learning how to query tabular data from MySQl and
present it in MapServer.  Have you had any luck with this?

Kevin