[mapserver-users] Querying map using CGI ...

[Paul james]

Thanks Steve! Great explanation!
But, in mapscript I got the query´s result getting resultCacheMemberObj and
layer.getFeature...
How can I do something like that using cgi?

Paul


On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Steve Lime <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us>wrote:

> Querying is controlled via the mode parameter. Mode=query does a point
> query returning at most 1 result in one layer. Mode=nquery allows you
> to query multiple layers and return multiple results from either a point or
> a rect. MapServer looks at the various additional supplied parameters to
> decide whether to do a point or rect query.
>
> For example, this url will drop a point through all queryable layers that
> have status DEFAULT (since I'm not explicitly turning anything on)
>
>  http://mapserv.org/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=foo.map&mapxy=x+y&mode=nquery
>
> and this will do a bbox query:
>
>
> http://mapserv.org/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=foo.map&mapext=minx+miny+maxx+maxy&mode=nquery
>
> You can turn layers on with the layer or layers parameters and can restrict
> queries to one layer (if necessary) using qlayer.
>
>  mode=query ~ queryByPoint with MS_SINGLE
>  mode=nquery ~ queryByPoint with MS_MULTIPLE or queryByRect
>
> The qlayer parameter has the effect of running the query methods on a
> layerObj while without it you're running on the whole mapObj.
>
> Does this help?
>
> Steve
>
> >>> On 6/22/2009 at 4:02 PM, in message
> <33fad6880906221402qde8375bj252c48b367d7eb4d at mail.gmail.com>, Paul james
> <pauljame at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello guys, I pretty lost with CGI...
> > Using mapscript, I can get query results with functions queryByPoint and
> > queryByRect...
> > How can I do that in CGI mode?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Paul
>
>
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