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

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Jan,

I think I read your question too fast.  I don't think my link helped 
you, however I realized that the MS4W examples didn't include setting 
WEB object metadata (I must have just gave examples in another email 
thread).  I tested that locally, and I've now added that example to the 
docs:

   //******
   // set WEB object metadata
   //******
   $oMap->web->metadata->set("ows_title", "MS4W demo");

Regarding your question, I am not fully understanding what you want, as 
you seem to agree/know the new way to set the WEB object metadata.

Long story short, you helped me, I didn't help you, ha.

-jeff





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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Jeff McKenna
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