phpmapscript questions

[Doug Williams]

Hi jeff,

Sorry jeff.  I thought I was using the list!  Your message confirms my worst fear.  That Steve Lime's 
open source mapserver is being proprietized.  Sort of reminds me of Bell Labs claim to unix after 
thousands of people gave freely to develop it.  I was wondering why it has become so hard to get 
decent answers to simple questions about mapserver, and why the docs are sssooooo thin.  And why 
else would you say 'no' with a grin?

Cheers,


On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:07:01 -0400, Jeff McKenna wrote
> Since you seem to want direct support for MapServer, you should know 
> that our company offers exactly that
> 
> (http://www.dmsolutions.ca/premiere/index.html).  At least now you 
> know how we stay in business :)
> 
> Otherwise please use the email lists.
> 
> --
> jeff
> 
> Doug Williams wrote:
> > No worries.  I have just been trying to grab attribute values for shapes 
> > when getting the imagemap coordinates using the imagemap outputformat 
> > driver.  I get the coordinates alright, but have failed to figure out 
> > the method for getting the attributes.  I am guessing grabbing the 
> > attributes is tied together with grabbing the shape coords because, 
> > well, I don't know why the coords are interesting without the attributes.
> > 
> > Unfortunately I have not been able to spend enough time yet with 
> > Mapserver to call myself  a power user, so I seek the help of those that 
> > are.  I'd be happy to document my findings so as to assist others that 
> > are interested in utilizing imagemaps with phpmapscript.
> > 
> > The imagemap works great, I really like it.  But grabbing the attributes 
> > has me stumped.  There must be someone that knows how to properly set up 
> > the map file to generate the attribute data when the coords are being 
> > mapped.
> > 
> > Any direction on examples or someone that might know would be greatly 
> > appreciated.
> > 
> > Doug
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Jul 3, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> > 
> >> Actually i do a lot of documentation for mapserver, but i am not a 
> >> developer.  sorry.  so the answer is no :)  In fact i am a "power 
> >> user", that is all.  i maintain ms4w, but a mapscript guy i am not.
> >>
> >> sorry.
> >>
> >> jeff
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Doug Williams wrote:
> >>> Jeff,
> >>> are you the phpmapscript guy?
> > 
> >
> 
> -- 
> Jeff McKenna
> DM Solutions Group Inc.
> http://www.dmsolutions.ca