question on query

[Manfred Meier]

David,
thank you very much. I tried all combinations of ' and " and I got every 
time the same polygon 1407 highlighted. Now it works!

Manfred


Fawcett, David schrieb:
> Manfred, 
> 
> This should work as a qstring:
> 
> http://www.elbe-link.de/cgi-bin/map_test1/mapserv?map=test1.map&mode=itemquery&qlayer=zel1&qstring=([ZELNR]=1405)
> 
> Albert, the concept is that you have to use html and/or javascript on your page to build a http request (url or post) to send to MapServer.  I would look at the code behind Lawrence's example.  
> 
> David.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Manfred Meier
> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 1:52 AM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] question on query
> 
> 
> Hi Albert,
> 
> - I mentioned javascript (not java) because sometimes you need it to 
> make a web based gui more comfortable. For a first try it is not necessary.
> 
> - Thanks for the explantions of TWP and so on and for the example url.
> 
> - Lawrence did give you a good example.
> 
> - Perhaps to make it more clear, how to put an url together here two 
> examples:
> 
> 1) Try http://www.elbe-link.de/cgi-bin/map_test1/mapserv?map=test1.map&mode=map&mapext=2545900+5673000+2547600+5674400
> you should get an image with some polygons (parcels) and their id numbers.
> 
> 2) Try http://www.elbe-link.de/cgi-bin/map_test1/mapserv?map=test1.map&mode=itemquery&mapext=2545900+5673000+2547600+5674400&qlayer=zel1&qitem=ZELNR&qstring="1405"
> we did a query for the polygon with the number 1405 in the data field 
> "ZELNR". You should get an image with a highlighted polygon.
> 
> You see the differences in mode, qlayer, qitem and qstring.
> 
> At the moment I'm trying to put a qstring in the form "[ZELNR]=1405" 
> together but it does not work. Sorry I have never worked with mode = 
> itemquery and so on.
> 
> Manfred
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Albert Anderson schrieb:
> 
> 
>>Hi Manfred,
>>
>> This search is a parcel search.
>>
>>Albert
>>
>>Albert Anderson <bart_doggers at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>>
>>    Hi Manfred,
>>
>>     Okay. I want to able to serach by TWP(township), RNG(range), and
>>    SCT(sections).
>>
>>    Why do you need to put java extensions on the end of them?  I dont
>>    know how to do that. The contents comes from the parcels shp file
>>    which TWP, RNG, and SCT are the field names in the file.
>>
>>    I want the result in a highlighted element in the image map. That
>>    would be ideal. If not  I can get a table working that would be okay
>>    too.
>>
>>    I am using html code in dreamweaver.  No perl or php used.
>>
>>    Here is a site that I am going by kinda
>>    http://www.houstonengineeringinc.com/mapmorph_demo/mapserv.html
>>
>>    thanks,
>>    Albert
>>
>>
>>    Manfred Meier <m.meier at spiekermann.de> wrote:
>>
>>        Hi Albert,
>>
>>        I can try to help, but I have no idea, what you are trying to 
>>do.
>>
>>        - What is TWP, RNG and so on?
>>
>>        - You write, you want to have drop down and text boxes. In my
>>        opinion
>>        you have to code these elements in HTML perhaps with javascript
>>        extensions. Do you know how to do that? Where does the contents
>>        of the
>>        drop downs come from?
>>
>>        - What result do you want to have after submit? A highlighted
>>        element in
>>        the image and/or a table with detail data of the selected 
>>element?
>>
>>        - I'm sure there are sites which do likely functions. Did you
>>        look at
>>        some example sites?
>>
>>        - Do you use some scripting language like perl or php to
>>        dynamically
>>        create the html pages or are they static?
>>
>>
>>
>>        Manfred
>>
>>
>>        Albert Anderson schrieb:
>>         > Hi,
>>         >
>>         > I would like some help with building this query. I want drop
>>        down bar
>>         > menu with TWP, RNG, RNG & SCT, TWP & RNG, and TWP & RNG &
>>        SCT. Then
>>         > three text boxes so you can put in the numbers. Have a submit
>>        button for
>>         > the results. Is there a way I can this do this with mapserver
>>        4? How
>>         > would I get started with this? Could someone email me back.
>>         >
>>         > Thanks,
>>         > Albert
>>         >
>>         >
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