[MapServer-users] Docker image for MapServer with PHP-MapScript

Jan Hartmann j.l.h.hartmann at gmail.com
Wed Nov 8 05:59:54 PST 2023


Thanks Steve. I should have been able to guess that, but the 
PHP-MapScript documentation 
(https://mapserver.org/mapscript/php/index.html) still has a metadata 
member for the MapObj. As well as for the WebObj

As has been said before, the documentation for PHP Mapscript 
(https://mapserver.org/mapscript/php/index.html) is not very helpful. 
Essentially, it still describes the pre-SWIG version. I have been 
compiling MapServer since before the first marvelous MapServer-meeting 
in 2003 (https://maps.hisgis.nl/conferences/2003/mum/, look at the 
photographs!), but I have been using the UbuntuGIS version for the last 
few years. It was really a pain to get the current version working from 
scratch in a user directory. I was almost starting to think about 
switching to GeoServer :-). To get the "official" PHP-Mapscript-guide 
working I had to use:

https://ms4w.com/trac/wiki/MigrationGuide5.x
https://mapserver.org/MIGRATION_GUIDE.html
https://mapserver.org/mapscript/php/migration_guide.html
https://mapserver.org/mapscript/php/index.html

The main new requirements (including mapscript.php and setting 
mapserver.conf) core-dump the PHP-script when missing, so that too leads 
to some not-so-nice debugging. I would strongly advise to bring the 
documentation of MapScript up to date and to base it on the most recent 
version. And to clean out a bit the remnants of previous releases.

There seems to be a working Docker-version for MapServer/Mapscript in 
Debian Bookworm 
(https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-dev/2023-October/017032.html), 
but I haven't tested it yet. Has anyone worked with it? And does anyone 
know of a recent Docker version for Mapserver/Mapscript in Alpine? Some 
organisations I am working for in the Euregio Aachen-Liege-Maastricht 
require Alpine for their Docker version.

Anyway, thanks to Tanya, Vassilis and Steve,

Jan Hartmann
Amsterdam

On 30/10/2023 18:56, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) wrote:
>
> Map-level metadata lives in the WEB object…
>
> *From:* MapServer-users <mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> *On 
> Behalf Of *Jan Hartmann via MapServer-users
> *Sent:* Monday, October 30, 2023 12:46 PM
> *To:* Vassilis Chatzigiannakis <vchatzi at itml.gr>; 
> mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [MapServer-users] Docker image for MapServer with 
> PHP-MapScript
>
> Almost there. There are additional migration examples in: 
> https://ms4w.com/trac/wiki/MigrationGuide5.x
>
>
> I wrote wrapper functions for the old ms_new... functions, and can 
> create that way a new mapObj called $oMap.
>
> The "set" function has been  renamed  to "__set" : not 
> $oMap->set("maxsize",6020), but: ;$oMap->__set("maxsize",6020);
>
> Layers can be declared as before:  $layer = $oMap->getLayer(1).
>
> Metadata have to be set as follows:
>
> Not: $layer->setMetadata("...","..."); but: 
> $layer->metadata->set("...","...")
>
> However, I cannot set the metadata of the mapObj: 
> $oMap->metadata->set("...","...") gives: "Undefined array key "metadata""
>
> Any idea?
>
> On 29/10/2023 07:52, Vassilis Chatzigiannakis wrote:
>
>     Yes the documentation is a mess .
>
>     I worked with this reference:
>
>     https://mapserver.org/mapscript/mapscript-api/index.html
>
>     So, you start by
>
>     $oMap= newmapObj($mapfile);
>
>     Best regards,
>
>     Vassilis
>
>     *From:* Jan Hartmann <j.l.h.hartmann at gmail.com>
>     <mailto:j.l.h.hartmann at gmail.com>
>     *Sent:* Saturday, October 28, 2023 9:14 PM
>     *To:* Vassilis Chatzigiannakis <vchatzi at itml.gr>
>     <mailto:vchatzi at itml.gr>; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
>     *Subject:* Re: [MapServer-users] Docker image for MapServer with
>     PHP-MapScript
>
>     This seems to work.  And it says so in the migration guide
>     (https://mapserver.org/mapscript/php/migration_guide.html):
>
>     all of your PHP scripts (that leverage MapServer objects and
>     functions) must now always first include the generated
>     mapscript.php file containing MapServer constants:
>
>     But could it be that only "$m = new mapObj('...');" is accepted,
>     and "$m=ms_newMapObj('...');" isn't? The docs still mention the
>     old call (https://mapserver.org/mapscript/php/phpmapscript.html
>
>     On 28/10/2023 09:11, Vassilis Chatzigiannakis wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         I did it recently. There should be a mapscript.php file in the
>         same folder as the  php_mapscriptng.so extension.
>
>         You need to include it in your php script.
>
>         Best,
>
>         Vassilis
>
>         *From:* MapServer-users
>         <mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>
>         <mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> *On Behalf Of
>         *Jan Hartmann via MapServer-users
>         *Sent:* Friday, October 27, 2023 9:42 PM
>         *To:* mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
>         *Subject:* Re: [MapServer-users] Docker image for MapServer
>         with PHP-MapScript
>
>         I made a docker version of mapserver/php-mapscript myself,
>         based on Ubuntu 22.04. I installed all required libraries with
>         apt, and compiled mapserver and mapscript according to
>         instructions. No problem at all.
>
>         At the end I got the following from phpinfo();
>
>
>
>
>             mapscript
>
>         *MapServer Version*
>
>         	
>
>         MapServer version 8.0.1 PROJ version 9.3 GDAL version 3.4
>         OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=AGG
>         SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=ICONV SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER
>         SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT
>         SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER SUPPORTS=OGCAPI_SERVER SUPPORTS=GEOS
>         INPUT=JPEG INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE
>         INPUT=FLATGEOBUF
>
>
>         But no mapscript function or object was regognized in my
>         PHP-scripts:
>
>         PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Class "mapObj" not found in
>         /virdir/www_root/test.php:2
>         Stack trace:
>         #0 {main}
>           thrown in /virdir/www_root/test.php on line 2
>
>
>         I am really desparate. Has anyone ever succeeded to get
>         php_mapscriptng.so to work?  Or does anyone know of a working
>         Docker image for MapServer with PHP MapScript?
>
>         Jan
>
>         On 21/10/2023 05:40, Jan Hartmann wrote:
>
>             I tried this with serveral versions of PHP and MapServer,
>             but got always the same result. Can anyone point me to a
>             Docker image for MapServer + PHP-MapScript?
>
>             Jan
>
>             On 19/10/2023 18:12, Jan Hartmann wrote:
>
>                 Still not there. Everything has been installed, and
>                 phpinfo() gives:
>
>                 *MapServer Version*
>
>                 	
>
>                 MapServer version 8.0.1 PROJ version 9.3 GDAL version
>                 3.7 OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=AGG
>                 SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=ICONV SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER
>                 SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER
>                 SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER
>                 SUPPORTS=OGCAPI_SERVER INPUT=JPEG INPUT=POSTGIS
>                 INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE INPUT=FLATGEOBUF
>
>
>                 But calling "$map = new mapObj('mapfile.map');" gives:
>
>                 *Fatal error*: Uncaught Error: Class "mapObj" not
>                 found in
>                 /mnt/virdir/www_root/test/test_mapscript.php:2 Stack
>                 trace: #0 {main} thrown in
>                 */mnt/virdir/www_root/test/test_mapscript.php* on line *2
>
>                 *Any idea?
>
>                 Jan
>
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