LABELITEM problem with Postgis

[Stefan Schwarzer]

Hey, what the h... is this. For years the labelitem command without  
using apostrophes worked. Now, trying everything to find a solution  
to the below mentioned problem, I put the name of the column into  
apostrophes.... and then it worked...

  LABELITEM 'name'

Gush, what's that?

Stef


> Hi there,
>
> I have a problem displaying the labels of a specific fields of my  
> postgres/postgis table on the map.
>
> It always gives me this error message:
>
> Warning: [MapServer Error]: getString(): Parsing error near (name): 
> (line 436)
>
> which is this line:
>
> $map_file = "geo_map.map";
> $map = ms_newMapObj($map_path.$map_file);
>
> But it's only when I add the line "LABELITEM name" into the map  
> file. The field name exists, I can query the field with a SELECT  
> command within the database...
>
>         LAYER
>             NAME sreg_boundaries
>             CONNECTIONTYPE postgis
>             CONNECTION 'user=xx password=xx dbname=xx' 			
>             TYPE POLYGON
>             LABELCACHE on
>             DATA 'the_geom FROM subregions USING UNIQUE gid USING  
> srid=-1'
>             LABELITEM name
>             CLASSITEM name
>             SIZEUNITS pixels
>             CLASS
>                 NAME 'Subregional Boundaries'
>                 ....
>
> Any idea why this is?
>
> Thanks for any hints!
>
> Stef
>

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