Using PHP/MapScript

Summary

In this chapter, you’ve examined some basic methods of PHP/MapScript and created an application that duplicates the functionality of a MapServer CGI application. You’ve seen how to create a map object from a mapfile and manipulate some of its internal attributes and objects by means of MapScript methods. You’ve also learned how to draw and save the map image, and display it in an interactive web page. You haven’t exhausted MapScript’s capabilities, but you have created a firm foundation upon which you can build larger, more complicated applications that exercise more of MapScript’s talents.

In Chapter 9, you’ll build upon the skills acquired in this chapter to create a PHP application using both MySQL and MapScript. This application will be complete and demonstrate functionality that you’ll be able to incorporate easily into your own applications to make them spatially aware.