[mapserver-users] Migrating to PHP SWIG drawFeature missing

[Jeff McKenna]

Of course I missed the last line:

   $map = new mapObj("simple.map");
   $drawLayer = $map->getLayerByName('drawshape1');
   $newshp = new shapeObj(MS_SHAPE_POLYGON);
   $newshp = $newshp->fromWKT($curwkt);
   $drawLayer->addFeature($newshp);


-jeff



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Jeff McKenna
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On 2021-02-06 12:06 p.m., Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> I have recently had to upgrade all of my PHP scripts for several 
> client's applications, to SWIG MapScript, and your fromWKT() note is a 
> common one in all of my scripts too.  Good news though: your/our scripts 
> are easily updated for SWIG as follows:
> 
> 
>    $map = new mapObj("simple.map");
>    $drawLayer = $map->getLayerByName('drawshape1');
>    $newshp = new shapeObj(MS_SHAPE_POLYGON);
>    $newshp = $newshp->fromWKT($curwkt);
> 
> (the issue is that you must first declare the new shape object 
> separately, and then next use that same variable to call & load the WKT)
> 
> You're correct that the upcoming release will drop the old native 
> mapscript, so please definitely don't be afraid to jump into existing 
> tickets (such as this one that lists a few missing SWIG functions 
> https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/1822 ) so we can all work 
> together on making the 8.0 release great.
> 
> Thanks for your feedback,
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
>