[Cartoweb-users] Re: $_ENV['CW3_PROJECT'], and other variables

[Max Ueda]

Thank you Alexandre!
I've got it!

Best regards,

Max Ueda

--- Alexandre Saunier
<alexandre.saunier at camptocamp.com> wrote:

> Here are some *instances* of URL with CW3 GET
> parameters:
> 
> - recentering using coordinates:
>
http://example.com/?recenter_x=123456&recenter_y=54321&recenter_scale=10000&show_crosshair=1
> 
> - recentering on objects id's (ie objects defined in
> the mapfile for a 
> given layer and with an id field specified in the
> layer definition):
>
http://example.com/?id_recenter_layer=cities&id_recenter_ids=12345,45634,789
> 
>   (in this example we want to recenter on 3
> different cities).
> 
> All the available parameters are listed in section
> 2.4.2.2 of the links 
> I previously gave.
> 
> Note that those GET parameters do not require to use
> the FilterProvider 
> interface in your plugins. Filters are "only" used
> to dynamically set or 
> modify those parameters and to create customized
> behaviors.
> For instance if you'd prefer to use an other name
> for some of this 
> parameters you may add in on of your plugins
> something like:
> 
> function filterGetRequest(FilterRequestModifier
> $request)
>      if ($request->getValue('x') &&
> $request->getValue('y')) {
>          $request->setValue('recenter_x',
> $request->getValue('x'));
>          $request->setValue('recenter_y',
> $request->getValue('y'));
>          $request->setValue('recenter_scale',
> '10000');
>          $request->setValue('show_crosshair', '1');
>      }
> }
> 
> thus you may rewrite the first instance URL into:
> http://example.com/?x=123456&y=54321
> 
> If you don't need to rewrite URLs depending on what
> GET/POST parameters 
> you get (for instance if you call the built-in
> parameters), 
> FilterProvider is not necessary.
> 
> Max Ueda wrote:
> > Thanks Alexandre!
> > 
> > That is what I am looking for.
> > Still, I got some questions about
> filterGetRequest()
> > method.
> > 
> > When using a GET request, how should the URL be
> > mounted? For example, by having the
> > ClientRecenterExample.php just like the recenter
> > example, how should the GET request URL look like?
> > 
> > Thanks again,
> > 
> > Max Ueda
> > 
> > --- Alexandre Saunier
> > <alexandre.saunier at camptocamp.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>you may directly load a given CartoWeb "state" by
> >>calling CartoWeb URL 
> >>with some special GET (or POST) parameters.
> >>
> >>For CW3.3 see:
> >>
> > 
> >
>
http://cartoweb.org/doc/cw3.3/xhtml/dev.newplugin.html#dev.newplugin.special.filters
> > 
> >>CVS version has some extra parameters:
> >>
> > 
> >
>
http://cartoweb.org/doc_head/docbook/xhtml/dev.newplugin.html#dev.newplugin.special.filters
> > 
> >>AS
> >>
> >>Max Ueda wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi again,
> >>>
> >>>Hm, I forgot to say, I was also looking for
> >>
> >>something
> >>
> >>>that works like those url communicating stuff
> >>
> >>(getting
> >>
> >>>something done by a webpage through url lines,
> >>
> >>like
> >>
> >
>
http://www.myproject.com/cartoweb3/htdocs/myProject.php?lang=fr).
> > 
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>Can it be done?
> >>>
> >>>Thanks again!
> >>>
> >>>Max
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>--- Max Ueda <mhanzo at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>>What for is the $_ENV array?
> >>>>
> >>>>The question I have may sound stupid, but, I'm
> out
> >>>>of
> >>>>ideas, and this is the last one that came.
> >>>>
> >>>>I need to have access from a web application to
> >>
> >>the
> >>
> >>>>template variables of the Cartoweb Application
> I'm
> >>>>using. 
> >>>>
> >>>>For example, I have the Cartoweb Application and
> >>
> >>its
> >>
> >>>>plugins, and a web application (one of those
> >>>>websites
> >>>>that does some database retrieval operations and
> >>>>displays them as html pages). All I need is to
> >>
> >>throw
> >>
> >>>>the values retrieved from that application to
> the
> >>>>Cartoweb Application, without accessing the
> >>>>MyProject.php file explicitly. 
> >>>>
> >>>>In other words, all I need is to use the
> retrieved
> >>>>data from my web application to use the Cartoweb
> >>>>Plugins I've developed (mostly, recentering and
> >>>>outline) without having to access the plugin
> >>>>templates/forms.
> >>>>
> >>>>For example, I retrieve some data (lat/long
> >>>>coordinates, street&number) from my webapp, and
> >>
> >>when
> >>
> >>>>I
> >>>>click a submit button, I need it to transmit the
> >>>>data
> >>>>to the CArtoweb application, and then, it
> displays
> >>>>the
> >>>>main CW3 Project page with the recentered
> >>>>coordinates
> >>>>(that are related to the item I've retrieved
> from
> >>>>the
> >>>>web application) on it. 
> >>>>
> >>>>Is there any other way of doing that without
> >>
> >>having
> >>
> >>>>to
> >>>>access such variables (for example, the
> $_REQUEST
> >>>>and
> >>>>$_POST from PHP)?
> >>>>
> >>>>Thanks in advance!
> >>>>
> >>>>Max Ueda
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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