[ZOO-PSC] Updates on MS4W+ZOO-Project

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Gérald,

As you are traveling today to FOSS4G, and tomorrow I'll be preparing to 
do the same, I thought it would be good to switch to email updates.

PHP Service
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Today I built PHP 5.6 support into the ZOO-Kernel for MS4W.  I am able to

- see a "HelloPHP" process offering at the commandline
- same through a GetCapabilities request in the browser
- DescribeProcess request works for HelloPHP
- execute request seems to work (with a request of 
&Identifier=HelloPHP&DataInputs=S=Hello)
    - I don't understand why I must pass the "S" value, but it seems to 
be required in hello.php

JavaScript Service
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I also tried to build JavaScript support into kernel, but unfortunately 
the MozillaBuild tool only supports Visual Studio >= 2013 so I'll have 
to wait until MS4W 4.0 (alpha build of MS4W 4.0 is already available, 
built with Visual Studio 2015) to tackle this for MS4W.

MapServer Support
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Compiled into kernel fine (thanks for helping with the source code changes)

Next Task
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Package this for MS4W.  This needs a demo, or some way to catch the 
users interest.  Maybe with HelloPHP service and WMS/WCS requests? Maybe 
through an ogr2ogr service as well?

We can talk of this in Boston.

See you soon,

-jeff