[mapserver-users] Re: Extract Layer Names from MapFile

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 2/15/2012 11:36 AM, Dash wrote:
> I originally was thinking of parsing the getcapabilites but I don't want the
> user to see the file.  I guess I could download the getcapabilites results,
> parse the information and then create a list of layer names.  It seems a
> little much for such a trivial task

I assume you want to do this in a javascript client, you could write a 
trivial php script and pass it the mapfile name and list of user layers 
and compare them on the server.

Maybe a better question is why do you need to compare them?

-Steve W