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.

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