Re: how dod you get to do multiple mysql queries concurrently?
| From: | Paul Scott | Date: | Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:16:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: how dod you get to do multiple mysql queries concurrently? | ||
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On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 11:53 -0600, Richard Lynch wrote:
> This is actually pretty OT for the PHP list itself, really, unless you
> want to try to implement GIS in PHP, which would be a particularly Bad
> Idea (tm) due to the scale, scope, and calculations involved.
>
Err, sorry, but I must correct you there. PHP is used as one of the more
common GIS (Web mapping at least) languages. I use it extensively with
the UMN Mapserver (mapserver.gis.umn.edu) as PHP/Mapscript which you
compile into PHP as an extension to access your map data. The OT part
comes in with the actual guts of the db transaction, and the AJAX based
interfaces that everyone insists on these days.
PHP in this case is an extremely important aspect of web mapping, and I
have even used PHP to interface to GRASS and other GIS apps (OK now
_this_ is starting to be a Bad Idea(TM)).
Some of the largest web mapping and scientific apps run off
PHP/Mapscript (closest competitor is PythonMapscript).
Just to let you know...
--Paul