Hi Nicholas,

In my experience it is relatively easy to write WKT from PHP. Even more 
easy if you can use the spatial functions of MySQL.

Openlayers can read WKT via: new OpenLayers.Layer.GML("name", 
"url_to_local_file, { format: OpenLayers.Format.WKT}).

hope this helps, MArco

Nicholas Efremov-Kendall schreef:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Thanks for your note. I'm afraid I have to reinvent the wheel. My issue is
> that my hands are tied with regard to what software I can use. I wouldn't
> even bother with GML if I could use Geoserver or Mapserver. I'm developing
> for a university which doesn't want to give us a VPS and won't let me use
> anything besides Jscript, Php, and Mysql. Initially they had suggested an
> entirely clientside solution. I had initially developed using PGsgl and
> Mapserver, and now I'm trying to build more or less the same functionality
> without Mapserver (or an equivalent piece of the software) as the keystone.
>
> The issue is I have a point file that has a number of many-to-one
> relationships, which should be filterable through search parameters (i.e.
> SELECT _type, _phase, etc FROM Sites Where X Like Y). There are only some
> 400 points total, and If I could load them all and hide and reveal them
> based on user input, that might work as well. I was envisioning individual
> site markers as well based on attributes, but that might not happen by the
> time it goes live.
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Andreas Hocevar <ahoce...@opengeo.org>wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Nicholas
>> Efremov-Kendall<n.e.kend...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> I apologize for the deluge of questions. Does anyone have a reference for
>>> getting a postgres/mysql database query into a gml file for export?
>>>       
>> I am not sure there is one, because you would be re-inventing the
>> wheel by implementing this in PHP. You may want to have a look at
>> GeoServer [1] (configurable via web-based GUI, requires Java JDK) or
>> FeatureServer (config file, requires Python). The former implements
>> various OGC [3] standards, and can also render map tiles (using the
>> WMS standard, like e.g. also UMN MapServer [4]), the latter provides a
>> lean REST API. All of the mentioned products work well with
>> OpenLayers.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Andreas.
>>
>> [1] http://geoserver.org/
>> [2] http://featureserver.org/
>> [3] http://opengeospatial.org/
>> [4] http://mapserver.org/
>>
>> --
>> Andreas Hocevar
>> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
>> Expert service straight from the developers.
>>
>>     
>
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