[OpenLayers-Users] OpenLayers.Layer.WMS and OpenLayers.Layer.MapServer - variable substitution?

[Ben Madin]

Hello List,

I wonder if you can help me then,

On 13/03/2009, at 9:08 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote: # apologies if I  
have cut this out incorrectly...

>>> Please don't use Layer.MapServer unless you have to. It is really  
>>> only
>>> there for pople who are uanble to configure the server side of their
>>> MapSever to act as a WMS, and it will cause you more pain than you  
>>> will
>>> gain.

I have a mapserver layer, and it is using dates from the html page  
(start & end) as parameters for the postgis query of points.

in  my mapserver layer, I use the %start% & %end% variable  
substitution to only capture the points in the window I am interested  
in.

I looked at the above advice, but I can't get the same substitution to  
work using the WMS setup.

Should I be able to do this, am I missing something, or is there  
another way around doing this?

Or is this a good example of continuing to use mapserver?

cheers

Ben



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