MapScript needs a method to retrieve attribute binding settings.

[sdlime]

As it sits if you set a binding programmatically, like so:

  $label->setBinding(MS_LABEL_BINDING_ANGLE, 'myitem');

or in a map file there is no way to get at the column name. We'd need a getBinding method in MapScript so you could do something like:

  $label->setBinding(MS_LABEL_BINDING_ANGLE, 'myitem');
  $item = $label->getBinding(MS_LABEL_BINDING_ANGLE);

Where $item would contain the text 'myitem'.

Steve

[dmorissette]

We'll need to add the same thing in PHP MapScript.

[dmorissette]

Steve, have you done this for SWIG already? If not then Alan can do it for both SWIG and PHP MapScript.

[sdlime]

No, I've not done this. Feel free!

Steve

[dmorissette]

Reassigning to Alan.

[aboudreault]

Here's the patch for the getBinding method. I tested the swig interface with python.

[dmorissette]

Looks great Alan. Please commit to SVN trunk.

Adding Jeff to CC to notify him of an update to PHP MapScript docs.

[aboudreault]

Commited to SVN trunk in r8000

[havatv]

Fixed for 6.0 and trunk in r12006. PHP documentation was already OK. Only updated the mapscript document with the methods (included all the methods I found in the label.i and style.i files - don't know if that was correct). Short explanation of the methods (taken from the PHP document) added in r12007.