mapscript map loading error

Thu Jul 20 04:24:00 PDT 2006

Hello,

some additional "ideas": (You know, I'm not a php man)

- is in your php.ini display_errors set to "on", so that erors are 
shown? And are the errors and warnings activated?

- you have this echo's in yout script as debug output. Can you insert an 
echo after each of these 3 lines too,
 >        $map = ms_newMapObj($map_path);
 >        $image=$map->draw();
 >        $image_url=$image->saveWebImage();
so that you ca see what the last executed statement is?

Manfred


cris ricana schrieb:

> Hi!
> 
> Here's the answer to your questions:
> 
>> - is your tmp-dir writeable for the webserver?
> 
> 
> Yes it is. I've tested my mapserver installation successfully using
> CGI forms (the itasca samples, in particular) instead of PHP
> /mapscript. These CGI webpages performs well and writes their images
> in a temp folder I made (/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/tmp/).
> 
> 
>> - if you look at the source-code for the html-page in your browser, does
>> it show the correct url in the image tag?
> 
> 
> The output in the browser (as well as the source code) is simply these 
> text:
> 
> "php_mapscript.so loaded. /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/recipe1/hello.map"
> 
> Which are text echoed from the php code (see my php code below) from
> line 3 and 5. There are no lines for the image at all. Actually, I
> added these text to locate where the problem is in my php code.
> Otherwise, the output in the browser would be a blank page.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Maricris
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 7/20/06, Manfred Meier <m.meier at spiekermann.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> - is your tmp-dir writeable for the webserver?
>> - if you look at the source-code for the html-page in your browser, does
>> it show the correct url in the image tag?
>>
>> Manfred
>>
>>
>> cris ricana schrieb:
>>
>> > Hello!
>> >
>> > I'd like some help in using PHP/Mapscript. I have a freshly installed
>> > Mapserver machine and is testing some simple php webpages to see if
>> > everything is working, especially PHP/Mapscript:
>> >
>> >    <?php
>> >          dl ("php_mapscript.so");
>> >          echo("php_mapscript.so loaded.\n");   //to see if the 
>> library will
>> > sucessfully load.
>> >          $map_path="/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/recipe1/hello.map";
>> >          echo($map_path);                             // absolute path
>> > to the map file
>> >        $map = ms_newMapObj($map_path);
>> >        $image=$map->draw();
>> >        $image_url=$image->saveWebImage();
>> > ?>
>> > <HTML>
>> > <HEAD>
>> > <TITLE>Mapserver "hello world"</TITLE>
>> > </HEAD>
>> > <BODY>
>> > <img SRC="<?php echo $image_url; ?>">
>> > <p>This is the simplest example I could come up with.</p>
>> > ...
>> > </BODY>
>> > </html>
>> >
>> > I'm using the following map file. It should produce an image with just
>> > a line of text in it:
>> >
>> > MAP
>> >        NAME HELLO
>> >        STATUS ON
>> >        EXTENT 0 0 4000 3000
>> >        SIZE 400 300
>> >        IMAGECOLOR 200 255 255
>> >        WEB
>> >                IMAGEPATH "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/tmp/"
>> >                IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
>> >        END
>> >
>> >        LAYER
>> >                NAME "credits"
>> >                STATUS DEFAULT
>> >                TRANSFORM FALSE
>> >                TYPE ANNOTATION
>> >                FEATURE
>> >                        POINTS
>> >                                200 150
>> >                        END
>> >                        TEXT 'Hello world.  Mapserver rocks.'
>> >                END
>> >                CLASS
>> >                        LABEL
>> >                                TYPE BITMAP
>> >                                COLOR 0 0 0
>> >                        END
>> >                END
>> >        END
>> >
>> > END
>> >
>> > The output I'm getting from the browsers is just the following:
>> >
>> >                 php_mapscript.so loaded.
>> > /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/recipe1/hello.map
>> >
>> > So it seems that everything is working, but only until it encounters
>> > the "$map = ms_newMapObj($map_path);" line. I've checked the tmp
>> > folder I've made to store the images and no images are made (no
>> > surprise there). Would somebody know what the problem might be and
>> > what could be the solution for this? I really, really need to know.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Maricris
>> >
>>
>>
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