On Sep 11, 2011, at 10:52 PM, Richard Greenwood wrote: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Mr. Puneet Kishor <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> However, since I am not using MapScript (even though I would prefer to), I >> would have to implement both CGI and MapScript to do what you are suggesting >> above -- CGI to display the map and MapScript to do the query. > > But my point was that you can do the query without mapserver at all if > the data is in postgis. Use a server-side language such as Perl or PHP > to pass the request to postgis, which can do a spatial query, and then > Perl or PHP can format the result as JSON and return it to the page > (via AJAX).
On second reading, I now get what you are saying. Strange that it never occurred to me. Sounds very sensible, and I will implement it tomorrow. That way I can get away from CGI `mode=query` and its TEMPLATE-ing vagaries. Yes, my data are in Pg, so I can do all my querying with Perl. Wish I could do away with `mode=tile` and also get tiles back via MapScript. Then my solution would be complete. Thanks for this really useful hint (more like making me see the obvious that I was missing for some reason). Puneet._______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
