Enhancement bug: layerObj->getbounds() method

[aaronkoning@…]

Hello developers,

Daniel suggested I file a bug enhancement in regards to my desire to have a
getBounds() method associated with the layerObj in PHP Mapscript (and the other
languages too I suppose).

This would help when creating zoomToActiveLayer and zoomToAllLayers types of
functions. I realize the bounds of a shapefile can be discovered through the
shapefileObj class, but their is no method available for determining bounds in
other data sources (eg: postgis). I suppose one could get around this by parsing
the connection and data properties of the layerObj, but it would be much nicer
to have a getBounds() method to do this.

Thanks a bunch :D
Aaron Koning

[dmorissette]

Steve wrote:
> There used to be an extent property in the layerObj that users could set
> in the map file to
> avoid the overhead. A method could leverage that if set.