[Tilecache] [OpenLayers-Dev] PHP Backend to OL

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Arnie,

I'm moving this to the TileCache list as that is most likely where it 
belongs and I do not know much about TileCache myself.

So I take it that what you are really asking is:
Is there a PHP version of TileCache? Or What would the minimum part of 
TileCache that you could get away with rewriting into PHP? Is this correct?

-Steve W

Arnie Shore wrote:
> Steve, it's TileCache's Python requirement; I'm trying to keep the stack 
> as short as practical, given the user community I'm designing to.  A 
> fair number have struggled to get the WAMP/LAMP/MAMP stacks installed, 
> and I'm reluctant to add to that.
> 
> I'm perfectly willing to crank out/include any PHP/MySQL, since that's 
> given.
> 
> Any hope?
> 
> AS
> 
> Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>>
>> Arnie,
>>
>> KaMap OSM tiles and TileCache all have an algorithm for how tiles are 
>> named and requested. Basically tiles are requested by converting the 
>> positional information for the viewport into a sequence of tiles that 
>> will fill the viewport. These tiles are then requested and each 
>> request is then mapped to physical files in their respective tile caches.
>>
>> I'm not sure what you are trying to do. If you install TileCache then 
>> it will handle all this for you and it can be installed on your local 
>> machine.
>>
>> Why do you think you need to do something with php-mapscript?
>>
>> -Steve
>>
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