[mapserver-users] passing variables to includes

[Jörg Thomsen (WhereGroup)]

Hi,

I had a MapServer Training this week and one of the participations asks
a nice question:

Is it possible to pass variables to includes? I think this is a very
good idea, it could save a lot of includefiles. In know it's very close
to mapscript, but has anyone done this without?

sth like

 include layer.inc.map(soil, blah.shp, clay, 255 0 0)

and in layer.inc.map

Layer
  NAME '%0%'
  data '%1%'
  METADATA
    wms_title '%0%'
    ...
  END
  CLASS
    NAME '%2%'
    STYLE
       SYMBOL 'hatch'
       COLOR %3%'
       OUTLINECOLOR  0 0 0
       SIZE 5
       WIDTH 15
       ANGLE 45
    END
...




Viele Grüße,
Jörg

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