Dear list and especially dear Jeff,
thank you for creating and supporting MS4W. Although MS4W doesn't completely
fit our demand, it is marvelous how easy it is to set it up. :)
I wanted to have a look at the new Mapserver/PHP-Combo and tried to make one of
our projects work with it. After fixing some deprecations here and there, I
encountered some difficulties with MapScript I was not able to circumvent. :(
When switching to PHP7 I had to include the php_mapscript.dll and (I guess that
was the SWIG-Version then?!) a mapscript.php.
Sven brought this up in a message in december. This time there is no more
mapscript.php and if I include the old one it raises an error, that the classes
are already there, which is plausible. But if I don't it seems that there is
something (i.e. some functions and attributes [e.g. mapObject->numLayers])
missing. But in general MapScript is loaded and does work.
Since I wasn't sure if it is a problem with my software setup, I used a plain
version of MS4W (5beta2) on another machine to reproduce it. Took about 5
Minutes to unzip and about 5 seconds to make it work... Wow!
An example to reproduce my problem is to add the following lines to
quickmap.php at line 20 and comment the rest of the file.
$layer = $oMap->getLayer(0);
echo "Layer: ".$layer->name."<br>";
print_r(get_object_vars($layer->metadata));
echo $layer->metadata->wms_title."<br>";
$layer->getMetaData("wms_title");
Getting the layer and printing the name ("ocean") does work. The metadata
actually is a hashTableObj, but get_object_vars gives an empty array. Directly
accessing the attribute just returns NULL. Calling getMetaData() like we used
to leads to the "Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined method
layerObj::getMetaData()" although is it mentioned in both the SWIG and PHP
MapScript API.
Don't know if these a bugs or features. =) Could it be that there have been
some changes in the code that are not yet documented? Maybe one of you can
bring some light into the darkness?!
Kind regards,
Jens
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