Changes between Version 49 and Version 50 of MigrationGuide5.x

Timestamp:

2022-01-28T14:36:48-04:00 (3 years ago)

Author:

Jeff McKenna

Comment:

add get metadata example

MigrationGuide5.x

@@ -28 +28 @@
   * setOpacity() example: [[SWIGMapScriptOpacity|MS4W 5.x]]
 * ''quickmap.php'' has also been updated (see locally at ''/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/quickmap.php'')
-* be aware that with the !MapServer 8 release, many '''deprecated''' things have been removed and will now throw an error.  For example, there is no longer a ''setMetaData()'' function for a Layer, in [[https://mapserver.org/mapscript/mapscript.html|SWIG MapScript]].  Instead we must access the 'metadata' hashTableObj keys and values directly, here is a working example:
+* be aware that with the !MapServer 8 release, many '''deprecated''' things have been removed and will now throw an error.  For example, there is no longer a ''setMetaData()'' function for a Layer (or ''getMetaData()''), in [[https://mapserver.org/mapscript/mapscript.html|SWIG MapScript]].  Instead we must access the 'metadata' hashTableObj keys and values directly, here is a working example:
   {{{
     #!php
     <?php
+      //set metadata using the new 'metadata' hashTableObj keys and value directly
       $oWMSLayer->metadata->set("wms_name", "popplace");
+      $oWMSLayer->metadata->set("wms_title", "Cities");
       $oWMSLayer->metadata->set("wms_srs", "EPSG:3978");
       $oWMSLayer->metadata->set("wms_server_version", "1.1.1");
       $oWMSLayer->metadata->set("wms_format", "image/png");
+      //get metadata using the new 'metadata' hashTableObj keys directly
+      echo $oWMSLayer->metadata->get("wms_title");
     ?>
   }}}