phpmapscript: changing a layer's style

[Dylan Beaudette]

Thanks a lot aaron!

That did the trick, take a look at the results if you have a spare minute:


On Monday 23 October 2006 14:58, Aaron Racicot wrote:
> Hi there Dylan,
>
> Have not had the chance to say HI in a while... Great to see some GRASS
> guru's diving into Mapserver!
>
> You might already be doing something similar to this but:
>
> 1) You need to get the CLASS object
> 2) Then you need to get the STYLE object within that class using the
> following:
>    styleObj getStyle(int index)
>         Return the style object using an index. index >= 0 &&
>         index < class->numstyles.
> 3) Then you can use the set method of the STYLE object for things other
> than color, but since colors are of type colorObj you need to set them
> directly using the setRGB method.
>
> Something like:
>   $style = $class->getStyle(1);
>   $style->color->setRGB($red,$green,$blue);
>   $style->outlinecolor->setRGB(0,0,0);
>
> Check out the docs at:
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/phpmapscript-class/classes/clas
>s obj
>
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/phpmapscript-class/classes/styl
>e obj
>
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/phpmapscript-class/classes/colo
>r obj
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Aaron
>
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> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] phpmapscript: changing a layer's style
>
> Thanks for the tips,
>
> however this does not *appear* to work for STYLE objects within a CLASS
> object...
>
> I have tried extracting the classObj and setting a parameter with:
>
> class->set('outlinecolor', '100 100 100')
>
> however this does not work.
>
> dylan

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Dylan Beaudette
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University of California at Davis
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