Important notes when upgrading to MS4W 5 from MS4W 4

REQUIREMENTS.txt

• always first follow the instructions in the file /ms4w/REQUIREMENTS.txt to install the updated "Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable" on your server

SWIG MapScript

PHP

• as of MS4W 5.0, there is no external file to include in your PHP scripts (the constants and functions are wrapped inside the MapScript PHP extension instead)
• see the updated example scripts here on the Wiki, such as:
  • query example: MS4W 5.x
  • new layer example (WMS layer, polygon + opacity, point): MS4W 5.x
  • WMS wrapper example: MS4W 5.x
  • setOpacity() example: 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 SWIG MapScript. Instead here is a working example:

  $oWMSLayer->metadata->set("wms_name", "popplace");
  $oWMSLayer->metadata->set("wms_srs", "EPSG:3978");
  $oWMSLayer->metadata->set("wms_server_version", "1.1.1");
  $oWMSLayer->metadata->set("wms_format", "image/png");
  

PROJ

Removed Mapfile Parameters

map2img