msLoadMapFromString() and PHP MapScript

[dmorissette]

Sture Dingsøyr wrote to mapserver-users:

Hi there

Will RFC 31 (Loading MapServer Objects from Strings) be implemented in 
PHP MapScript in Mapserver 5.0, e.g the mapscript.msLoadMapFromString function?

Sture

[dmorissette]

Definitely too late for 5.0 so that will have to be added in 5.2.

Steve, what is the status of this? Was any function added in SWIG MapScript? The RFC talks about possibly adding updateFromString() to some objects, is this still the plan?

[sdlime]

I thought I had cc'd assefa on bug #2143 but apparently not. The PHP additions are listed right there in the todo list - my fault. There were a couple of other bugs related to that RFC that Sean created but none cc'd PHP folks as they were SWIG issues. Could be a 5.0.1 addition?

Steve

[dmorissette]

Ticket #2399 is kind of related: asks for a method to create a mapObj from a string.

[dmorissette]

Assigned to Alan. Here is the list of methods that need to be added to PHP MapScript, from a quick grep of the SWIG code:

class.i:    int updateFromString(char *snippet)
label.i:  int updateFromString(char *snippet)
layer.i:    int updateFromString(char *snippet)
legend.i:  int updateFromString(char *snippet)
querymap.i:  int updateFromString(char *snippet)
referencemap.i:  int updateFromString(char *snippet)
scalebar.i:  int updateFromString(char *snippet)
style.i:    int updateFromString(char *snippet)
web.i:    int updateFromString(char *snippet)

[aboudreault]

Commited in SVN trunk in r8426. Documentation updated in r8427.