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

[Richard Greenwood]

Hi Jan,

On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM Jan Hartmann via MapServer-users <
mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org> 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?
>

Do you mean where to find an apt-get compiled binary for mapser 8.4? If so,
I think you'd find it in a future release of Ubuntu e.g. Ubuntu 25.04.
Otherwise you'd need to build it yourself from source.


> 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.
>

I'm no PHP whiz but if it was me, I'd use sed to search and replace rather
than create a wrapper function.

Good luck and keep us posted.
Rich


> Jan
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Richard W. Greenwood
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