PHP/Mapscript: send map to browser directly

[Gregor Mosheh]

Wally Maddoc wrote:
> The usual way to send a map to the browser is to store the image file (e.g
> mymap.png) on the server and invoke the URL to this file in the HTML-Code. 

If you want to output the image directly, use $map->image->saveImage() 
with no filename. That sends it to stdout. Used with header() you can 
have the image downloaded or displayed or whatever.

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/phpmapscript-class/classes/imageobj

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