taviroquai/mapserver

MapServer package for Laravel

Laravel Mapserver package

Install

Add to composer.json, _(*1)

    require: {
        "taviroquai/mapserver": "~2.0"
    }

Add Service Provider on app/config/app.php, _(*2)

    'providers' => array(
        ...
        'Taviroquai\Mapserver\MapserverServiceProvider',
    ),

php composer.phar update

Usage

    // Create a MapServer instance
    $mapserver = new \Taviroquai\Mapserver\Mapserver();

    // Create a new map object (mapObj)
    $map = $mapserver->createMap(
        'test',
        storage_path('default.map'),
        storage_path('template.html')
    );

    // Return WMS capabilities
    $response = $mapserver->getCapabilitiesResponse($map);

    // Return map image as Illuminate response
    $response = $mapserver->getImageResponse($map);

    return $response;

Requirements

Of course Laravel 5, Mapserver and MapScript must be installed, _(*3)

Features

1. Check whether MapServer is installed or not at the requested machine
2. Opens a mapfile
3. Export a mapfile
4. Return a GetCapabilities response as Illuminate\HTTP\Response
5. Creates map image as Illuminate\HTTP\Response

Call for Collab

All GEO lovers are invited to fork and grow this project ;), _(*4)