Problem with PHP MapScript Wrappers for WxS Services

[Graham Berry at Virgin]

Frank,

I am having problems with the set("encoding", "UTF-8") for foreign
character sets. Could this be related to this problem?

Cheers,

Graham

-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
Behalf Of Frank Warmerdam
Sent: 28 November 2006 16:56
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Problem with PHP MapScript Wrappers
for WxS Services

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Ben Tuttle wrote:
>> PHP Script:
>>
>> <?php
>> dl("php_mapscript.so");
>> $request = ms_newowsrequestobj();
>> print "<br><b>Dump of request: </b>";
>> var_dump($request);
> ...
>> /*
>> $request->loadparams();
> 
> 
> Ben,
> 
> Is there a reason that loadparams() is commented out?  This is the
call
> that parses the QUERY_STRING into parameters on the request object.
> 
> Or perhaps I'm missing what you are trying to do?

Folks,

In follow up on this I have come to a momentus discovery.  Not all web
application are cgi based!

Yes, it's hard to imagine, but it's true.

Not entirely surprisingly when using mod_php (and presumably all the
other
non cgi environments) the cgi environment variables do not get set.  And
worse, the loadParams() which expects to be used in a cgi enviroment
just
calls exit() after any failure, taking down the whole web server
instance (or at least the thread for that request) without returning
anything
useful.

It seems that in non-cgi environments folks wanting to use the WxS
services
will need to parse the request using mechanisms other than loadParams(),
and
populate the keyword/value pairs in the OWSRequest object manually.

I have updated the WxS services howto with a note about this, and also
will
keep the bug report open as a place to consider ways of passing in the
url
to loadParams() for 5.0.

   http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1975

Best regards,
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