[MapServer-users] updating old php-mapscript functions to their SWIG versions in mapserver 8

[Jan Hartmann]

Hi all,

I finally got mapserver 8.0.1 running in a clean Docker Ubuntu image, 
using the regular apt packages mapserver-bin and php-mapscript-ng. 
Thanks to Rich Greenwood for referring me to the php-mapscript-ng 
package, it's difficult to find. BTW, who manages this package, so I can 
inquire for the version for mapserver 8.4?

I am now updating all my mapserver 7 sites, the ones without SWIG 
PHP-Mapscript. Some PHP functions can be easily redefined in a header 
file, like:

function ms_newMapObj($mapFile) {return new mapObj ($mapFile);}

But I have not yet found out how to do this for object functions like

  mapObj->setMetadata($param1,$param2)

This has to be changed to

mapObj->web->metadata->set($param1,$param2).

I tried things like:

  mapObj->setMetadata($param1,$param2) = function ($param1,$param2) { 
$this->web->metadata->set($param1,$param2)};

But this does not work. Does anyone know how to do it? Is it possible at 
all in PHP? If not, I have to convert all expressions like this in all 
my scripts by hand.

Jan