[mapserver-users] Generic template for WMS GetFeatureInfo

[Steve Lime]

Hi Julian: You might try the [items] and [values] template tags combined with a little JavaScript. Those tags output a delimited list of items and values for a feature or set of features. You could split the output into arrays and display however you like. The attributes are just slammed together into 1 comma delimited string, so this approach won't work if your attribute data contains commas I fear. The same template in theory could be used for any layer then... You could use new-style templates (e.g. Via output formats) with template includes and handle this with 2 files- the main template and the shared include...

I notice those tags aren't documented so I'll create a ticket to do so. Should also probably enhance those tags, at least the values one, to take some simple formatting options.

Steve

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On Sep 14, 2011, at 8:39 AM, "Hollingbery, Julian" <julho at kms.dk> wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> I too want to serve GetFeatureInfo requests. However, I wonder if it is necessary to have a template per layer, when all I want to do is "show all attribute values in a HTML table". The thing is, I have a handful of services with approx. 40 layers in each. Each layer has on average a dozen attributes, so all in all, I am looking to simplify maintenance of 2000 HTML table cells. Has anyone done anything in a script or otherwise, so that one can use the same template file on layers with varying attribute lists?
> 
> I am considering utilising the fact that a TEMPLATE statement can reference a URL: I imagine that this might refer to a PHP-script, which takes e.g. a database table name, and returns a HTML response with the column names. Has anyone done anything like this?
> 
> Regards, 
> Julian Hollingbery
> 
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