Sunday, June 08, 2003

Notes from PHP mapscript session: Presentation run on PHP slideshow software PHP slideshow software only runs well on Mozilla XML based PHP slideshow allows you to run PHP code within the slideshow for demonstration purposes No one is yet talking about putting PHPMapscript into PEAR slideshow online soon. Paul Spencer of DMSolutions gave an excellent presentation Other mapscript implementations (perl java Tcl, etc) use SWIG.  PHP can't.  Why not? PHP must be run as CGI because the open source tools that mapserver depends on are not all threadsafe.  DMSolutions intends to get a threadsafe version of all of these tools available so that PHP can be run as Apache module. What does mapscript allow you to do that regular mapserver doesn't? build queries based on user input beyond zoom and pan. mapscript really lets you build applications while mapserver allows you to  build dynamic maps. Output in various formats like PDF and flash. 4:57:21 PM    comment []