[Chameleon] Output Fields and Aliases

[Abe Gillespie]

Please let me know, I'd be happy to contribute.  I have a system
working on my non-Chameleon sites.

-Abe

On 7/14/05, Tyler Mitchell <tjm at timberline.ca> wrote:
> Hi Abe,
> We talked about it, I filed a bug about it, but it's still marked as
> futrue.  So I'm assuming there is no support for result_fields built in.
> 
> I like your idea of having aliases too.
> 
> I started to do the same as you are proposing and would gladly work
> together to see it happen.  We need this function too.
> 
> Here's the boog:
> http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=995
> 
> Tyler
> 
> Abe Gillespie wrote:
> > Is there a standard Chameleon API way of getting METADATA-defined
> > output fields and aliases.  I have an example mapfile that contains
> > the following METADATA items:
> >
> > QUERY_ATTRIBUTES
> > RESULT_FIELDS
> > RESULT_FIELDS_LIMITED
> >
> > I'm not sure if these are custom METADATA items or ones used
> > particularly with Chameleon.  If there's something already setup in
> > Chameleon to handle these, I'd rather go that route than risk
> > reproducing something that's already available.
> >
> > Basically I want to be able to get the output fields for the LAYER.
> > And then get the alias of each field.  I.e. something like:
> >
> > $flds = $chameleonLayer->getOutputFields();
> > foreach ($flds as $f)
> > {
> >       $alias = $chameleonLayer->getFieldAlias($f);
> >       // Do some HTML output ...
> > }
> >
> > Again, I can write the code to do this myself.  But I don't want to
> > reproduce something that might already be there.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > -Abe
> >
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