Querying the extents of a layer (shapefile)

[Chip Taylor]

Thanks,
  I have done that before but I can only do that manually.  I need a method
either inside of Mapserver, in VBScript in an ASPX page, in Javascript in
the Template page, or PHP to do this and then pass it to Mapserver to render
the next map.  

Chip Taylor
Prepared Response, Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fawcett, David [mailto:David.Fawcett at state.mn.us]
> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 1:12 PM
> To: work at XWB.COM; MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu
> Subject: RE: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Querying the extents of a layer
> (shapefile)
> 
> You can run ogrinfo on it and get the extents
> 
> http://ogr.maptools.org/ogr_utilities.html
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Chip Taylor
> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 2:34 PM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Querying the extents of a layer
> (shapefile)
> 
> 
> If I have a shapefile as a layer can I query the extents of that
> shapefile from MapServer or MapScript?
> 
> Thanks for all the help you give to us poor newbies.
> 
> Chip Taylor
> Prepared Response, Inc.