[OpenLayers-Users] getting Feature Info data directly from .shp files

[bwoodall]

Howdy,
        
I think you might find the following example able to answer most of your
questions.

http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/getfeatureinfo-popup.html

as for other questions, there is nothing like looking ino the code which
in this case is lib/OpenLayers/Control/WMSGetFeatureInfo.js

you will find;
            /**
             * Property: layers
             * {Array(<OpenLayers.Layer.WMS>)} The layers to query for feature info.
             *     If omitted, all map WMS layers with a url that matches this <url> or
             *     <layerUrl> will be considered.
             */
            layers: null,
        

On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 01:53 -0800, sunny74 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had already seen it.
> But it does not work bec' of 2 reasons:
> 
> 1) The Required Query_Layers parameter for GetFeatureInfo is not
> mentioned.This has to be done in the map file.
> 
> 2) The code for infocontrol is:
> 
>  infoControls = {
>             click: new OpenLayers.Control.WMSGetFeatureInfo({
>                 url: 'http://demo.opengeo.org/geoserver/wms', 
>                 title: 'Identify features by clicking',
>                 layers: [water],
>                 queryVisible: true
>             }),
>             hover: new OpenLayers.Control.WMSGetFeatureInfo({
>                 url: 'http://demo.opengeo.org/geoserver/wms', 
>                 title: 'Identify features by clicking',
>                 layers: [water],
>                 hover: true,
>                 // defining a custom format options here
>                 formatOptions: {
>                     typeName: 'water_bodies', 
>                     featureNS: 'http://www.openplans.org/topp'
>                 },
>                 queryVisible: true
>             })
>         }
> 
> The url of WMSGetFeatureInfo is an external url i.e accessing some external
> data.
> What if I'm using mapserver and its pointing to shape(.shp) files.