[mapserver-users] using sld on the server

[Jeff McKenna]

On 2015-06-27 7:57 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> is there possibility to style layer using SLD file configured in
> MapScript? Idea would be, instead of using CLASS for configuration, you
> would just pass the SLD and things would magically happen (just like it
> works in GeoServer).
>
> Generating MapFiles from QGIS would than be next logical step ..
>
> I assume, I've missed something and there must be solution for this
> lying around for couple of years, but did not find anything
>


Hi Jachym,

Maybe you are looking for the applySLD function?  I know it exists for 
PHPMapScript on the LAYER object (see 
http://www.mapserver.org/mapscript/php/phpmapscript.html#layerobj).

Regarding QGIS, I believe the existing export tool uses Python MapScript 
and SLDs (https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/rt_mapserver_exporter/), so I 
believe that tool uses that same function (guessing, as I'm not the 
tool's developer).  But I suppose you could check the source 
(https://github.com/faunalia/rt_mapserver_exporter).

-jeff



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