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"Templates" is the simplest way to create an interactive mapserver site. | "Templates" is the simplest way to create an interactive mapserver site. | ||
(You can create non-interactive ones without templates but what's the fun of that?) | (You can create non-interactive ones without templates but what's the fun of that?) | ||
Without | ==The non-interacttive example== | ||
Without using a template, I (the masterful Web GIS progreammer) can create a .map file and put the appropriate URL onto a Web page, for example, | |||
http://mapserver.wildsong.biz/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=../mapserver/html/hello.map&mode=map&layer=credits | http://mapserver.wildsong.biz/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=../mapserver/html/hello.map&mode=map&layer=credits | ||
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and tells it to load up a map file, display the results by sending the image | and tells it to load up a map file, display the results by sending the image | ||
back to your browser ("mode=map"), and to display what's in the layer called credits ("layer=credits"). | back to your browser ("mode=map"), and to display what's in the layer called credits ("layer=credits"). | ||
==The first template== | |||
To get it to use my template file, I can change mode to browse and add | To get it to use my template file, I can change mode to browse and add | ||
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http://mapserver.wildsong.biz/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=../mapserver/html/hello.map&mode=browse&map_web_template=../mapserver/html/hello.template.html | http://mapserver.wildsong.biz/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=../mapserver/html/hello.map&mode=browse&map_web_template=../mapserver/html/hello.template.html | ||
I have to specify a layer; that example just shows you a blue box; | |||
http://mapserver.wildsong.biz/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=../mapserver/html/hello.map&mode=browse&map_web_template=../mapserver/html/hello.template.html&layer=credits | |||
The template has lots of mapserver template tags in it, which are a word enclosed by square brackets. They look like wiki tags, come to think of it. | |||
Revision as of 23:05, 3 August 2005
"Templates" is the simplest way to create an interactive mapserver site. (You can create non-interactive ones without templates but what's the fun of that?)
The non-interacttive example
Without using a template, I (the masterful Web GIS progreammer) can create a .map file and put the appropriate URL onto a Web page, for example,
http://mapserver.wildsong.biz/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=../mapserver/html/hello.map&mode=map&layer=credits
This invokes the CGI version of the mapserv executable that lives on my server and tells it to load up a map file, display the results by sending the image back to your browser ("mode=map"), and to display what's in the layer called credits ("layer=credits").
The first template
To get it to use my template file, I can change mode to browse and add a template specifier:
I have to specify a layer; that example just shows you a blue box;
The template has lots of mapserver template tags in it, which are a word enclosed by square brackets. They look like wiki tags, come to think of it.
