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

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Jan,

MS4W users have contributed several PHPNG scripts, on the wiki, that 
also includes: metadata->set("wms_name", "popplace")    such as 
https://ms4w.com/trac/wiki/SWIGMapScriptNewLayer

See other examples at https://ms4w.com/trac/#AdditionalNotesTips

thanks,

-jeff



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On 2025-02-22 8:34 a.m., Jan Hartmann via MapServer-users wrote:
> 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
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