Steve, I'd be interested in the PHP legend builder. Thanks, Percy
---------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:30:27 -0500 From: Steve Lime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: CGI or Mapscript The MapServer CGI can be viewed as one possible web application written in on top of the MapServer C code. MapScript is a wrapper around that C code and allows you to do everything the MapServer CGI can do plus just about anything you can dream up. For example, with MapServer CGI you can't create 10 maps at once and roll them into an animated gif. You could with MapScript. Another example, consider the ugly reference map in this page: http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/wmas/detail_report.html?map=COMPASS_MAPFILE&mode=itemquery&qlayer=bdry_adwma2py3_query&qitem=uniqueid&qstring=WMA0060402 You can't composite 2 MapServer generated maps with the CGI. You can with MapScript. Anyway, there are lots of DHTML/js frameworks out there. One that sits atop basically just the MapServer CGI is called dbox. You can learn more at: http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/tools/dbox It has a legend builder that requires MapScript (I have a PHP version of the legend building script if anyone cares), but certainly can be used without it.
