[ka-Map-users] Querying dbf files

[JayDub]

Hi I've got a dbf file I wanna query. Just so it's clear exactly I wanna do
lemme explain.
- Point and click on say a road... and get back the name of the road
- Perform a search for a part of a road name and get back results and gps
coords that may be zoomed to
I updated my map file... the relevant layer is shown below
I have the layer in a group called "Roads", I put in the meta data fields
"queryable", "SEARCHFIELD" and "fields".....
I've also tried using the javascript function pasted below. However
/cgi-bin/ doesn't exist on my server. So the popup does no good. Umm... the
alert works... shows me gps data and so on and so forth, but just not data
I'm convinced came from the dbf file. How can I extend on what's already
there to include some searching facilities like what I described?

I read about doing up the template but I think first I need to get /cgi-bin/
somehow setup to point to mapserver. I should also throw this in, I'm using
Linux... Ubuntu. Ne advice will be greatly appreciated.

  LAYER  #Kgn_rds_qc.shp

    TRANSPARENCY 100

    NAME 'kgn_rds_qc.shp'

    METADATA

      gix_layername        "kgn_rds_qc.shp"

      gix_layerfieldnames  "LABEL|TYPE|CLASS|ONEWAY"

      gix_layerfieldalias  "Label|Type|Class|Oneway"

      "queryable" "true"

      "opacity"	  "50"

      "SEARCHFIELD" "LABEL"

      "fields"	    "LABEL:Label,TYPE:Type,CLASS:Class,ONEWAY:Oneway"

    END  #METADATA

    TOLERANCE 3

    TOLERANCEUNITS pixels

    DATA 'kgn_rds_qc.shp'

    HEADER 'header.html'

    FOOTER 'footer.html'

    LABELCACHE on

    LABELITEM 'Label'

    CLASSITEM 'Class'

    STATUS ON

    DEBUG false

    TRANSFORM true

    TYPE line

    CLASS # class for primary roads

      EXPRESSION ('[CLASS]' eq 'Primary Road' AND '[LABEL]' ne 'Road')

      NAME 'kgn_rds_qc.shp'

      # MINSCALE 100000.05

      TEMPLATE 'templated.html'

      #PEN

      STYLE

        SYMBOL 'Kgn_rds_qc--0--0'

        SIZE 3

#        COLOR 150 25 25

	COLOR 0 0 70

	OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255

      END  #STYLE

      LABEL

	ANGLE auto

	ANTIALIAS true

	OUTLINECOLOR 220 220 255

	BACKGROUNDSHADOWSIZE 1 1

	BUFFER 1

	COLOR 150 10 150

	ENCODING "ISO-8859-1"

	FONT "Verdana"

	FORCE false

	MINFEATURESIZE 100

	MINDISTANCE 100

	POSITION auto

	SIZE medium

	#TYPE truetype

      END

    END #CLASS



    CLASS # class for other roads

      EXPRESSION (('[CLASS]' eq 'Secondary Road')  OR ('[CLASS]' eq 'Other
Road')  AND '[LABEL]' ne 'Road')

      #EXPRESSION /Secondary Road|Other Road/

      NAME 'kgn_rds_qc.shp'

      MAXSCALE 20000

      TEMPLATE 'templated.html'

      #PEN

      STYLE

        SYMBOL 'Kgn_rds_qc--0--0'

        SIZE 1

        # COLOR 150 25 25

	COLOR 25 25 25 # dark grey roads

      END  #STYLE

      LABEL

	ANGLE auto

	ANTIALIAS true

	OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255

	BACKGROUNDSHADOWSIZE 1 1

	BUFFER 1

	COLOR 70 70 250

	ENCODING "ISO-8859-1"

	FONT "Verdana"

	FORCE false

	MINFEATURESIZE 100

	POSITION auto

	SIZE medium

      END

    END #CLASS

    GROUP "Roads"

  END  #LAYER



myQuery = function( eventID, queryType, coords )
	{
		myKaMap = mapInstance;
		var szLayers = '';
		var layers = mapInstance.getCurrentMap().getQueryableLayers();
		if(layers.length==0) {
			alert("No queryable layers at this scale and extent");
			return;
		}
		for (var i=0;i<layers.length;i++) {
			szLayers = szLayers + "," + layers[i].name;
		}


		var extent = myKaMap.getGeoExtents();
		var scale = myKaMap.getCurrentScale();
		var cMap = myKaMap.getCurrentMap().name;
		var
params='map='+cMap+'&q_type='+queryType+'&scale='+scale+'&groups='+szLayers+'&coords='+coords+'&extent='+extent[0]+'|'+extent[1]+'|'+extent[2]+'|'+extent[3];

		window.open("/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=" + cMap +
"&layers=all&mode=query&mapxy=" + coords);
		alert( "Map: " + cMap + " | Scale: " + scale + " | Extent: " + extent + "
| QUERY: " + queryType + " " + coords + " on layers " + szLayers );
	}

	mapInstance.registerForEvent( KAMAP_QUERY, null, myQuery );
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