[postgis-users] Odp: parsing postgis answers

[Michał Drożdż]

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> Hi List!
> I am fresh Postgis user and have a problem with ST_EXTENT. I am using it to get data for map.zoomToExtent in openLayers.
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> The problem is that zoomToExtens takes parameters as zoomToExtent(value,value,value,value)
> http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers/Map-js.html#OpenLayers.Map.zoomToExtent
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> from ST_EXTENT a receive WKT like this:
> "BOX(2294970.88258299 6588308.80462897,2295532.89622321 6588616.7042758)"
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> How to parse that answer to get paremeters for OpenLayers in appropirate format?
> I checked that OpenLayers is able to parse WKT but it is impossible with BOX type.
> http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers/Format/WKT-js.html
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> Thank for help!
> Michal