CGI or Mapscript

[John Smith]

thks. yeah dbox is cool but i got another question- i'm trying to output
[imgext] and other cgi variables from dbox. how do i grab them? i'd really
want to use the backward and forward browser buttons. i think navigation is
way cooler that way.
jzs

Date:    Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:30:27 -0500
> From:    Steve Lime <Steve.Lime at DNR.STATE.MN.US>
> Subject: Re: CGI or Mapscript
>
> The MapServer CGI can be viewed as one possible web application written
> in on top
> of the MapServer C code. MapScript is a wrapper around that C code and
> allows you
> to do everything the MapServer CGI can do plus just about anything you
> can dream
> up.
>
> For example, with MapServer CGI you can't create 10 maps at once and
> roll them into
> an animated gif. You could with MapScript.
>
> Another example, consider the ugly reference map in this page:
>
>
> http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/wmas/detail_report.html?map=COMPASS_MAPFILE&mode=itemquery&qlayer=bdry_adwma2py3_query&qitem=uniqueid&qstring=WMA0060402
>
> You can't composite 2 MapServer generated maps with the CGI. You can
> with MapScript.
>
> Anyway, there are lots of DHTML/js frameworks out there. One that sits
> atop basically
> just the MapServer CGI is called dbox. You can learn more at:
>
>    http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/tools/dbox
>
> It has a legend builder that requires MapScript (I have a PHP version
> of the legend
> building script if anyone cares), but certainly can be used without
> it.
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