http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/ssi.html#today'sdate
This document last modified <!--#flastmod file="my_shapefile.shp" --> On 8/31/06, Bob Basques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Frank Warmerdam wrote: > Bob Basques wrote: > >> All, >> >> Can the creation date of a SHP file be retrieved via a MAPSERVER call? >> > > Bob, > > No mechanism exists to get at this from a CGI or mapscript point of view. > I thought about that, I also thought about using Metadata in the MapFile, IT just seems like a thing that should be available for some reason. :c) I also thought about using a Web call to a Web Service that could read the info ala a folder list display and pass that into the CGI call to mapserver, but then I would need to rig up some access to the SHP file itself on the server which didn't seem quite right either. Hmmm, I wonder what it would take to add this into MapServer, I mean, it's opening the file anyway, right . . . . The end product is to display a "Last Updated" message beneath some attribute data.being displayed. A last thought is to use the SHP file itself to store the data with an additional column. That seems like overkill too though. bobb
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