php-mapscript: abnormal death

[Mark Leslie]

My understanding was the OUTPUTFORMAT was implicitly defined, and the
mapfile output format would
be used by default.  Of course my understanding is limited, so I tried
it to no avail.

I've found a work around however.  It seems that writing to a file works
fine, just not to standard out.  I've done
the workaround that I write to a temp file, then read the file directly
to stdout.  So far, it's fixed the app, but it's still not
an ideal solution.  I've also filed a bug (1269).

Mark


Bart van den Eijnden wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> Have you defined an outputformat in your MAP file (or dynamically in
> php)?
>
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc44/mapfile-reference.html#outputformat
>
> eg for png 8 bits:
>
> OUTPUTFORMAT
>   NAME png
>   DRIVER "GD/PNG"
>   MIMETYPE "image/png"
>   IMAGEMODE PC256
>   EXTENSION "png"
> END
>
> Maybe you even need to set it (I don't know if this is necessary if there
> is only 1 output format though ...):
>
> $map->selectOutputFormat('png');
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>