p.mapper

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 3.1.0

Notes:
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 p.mapper: MapServer PHP/MapScript Framework
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The p.mapper framework is intended to offer broad
functionality and multiple configurations in order to 
facilitate the setup of a MapServer 
 (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu) application based on 
PHP/MapScript (http://www.dmsolutions.ca). 

Functions included are:

 * DHTML (DOM) zoom/pan interface supported browsers: 
   Mozilla 1.+/Netscape 6.1+, Firefox, IE 5/6, Opera 6.+
 * Zoom/pan also via keyboard keys, mouse wheel, 
   reference map, slider
 * Query functions (identify, select, search)
 * Query results display with database joins and hyperlinks
 * Pop-up identify when moving with mouse over map
 * Flexible layout of query results via JavaScript
 * Support for point layers with data in a database 
   supported by PEAR framework
 * Print functions: HTML and PDF
 * Distance and area measurement function
 * HTML legends and various display styles of legend and 
   layers/TOC
 * Configuration of several functions, behaviour and layout
   via a common INI file
 * Multilingual user interface (pre-defined: EN, DE, IT, FR,
   SE, NL, CZ, BR, SK, ES)
 * Download map image in various resolutions and formats
 * Adding points of interest with labels on map
 * Start map with pre-defined zoom extent: via explicit 
   extent or layer feature
 * Fully XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant
 * flexible page layout using zones


The application has been tested with MapServer version 4.0
to 4.10 under Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. See the WIKI 
(http://svn.pmapper.net/trac/wiki) for documentation.

You can download the demo dataset pmapper-demodata-2.zip)
and test p.mapper with the supplied map file pmapper_demo.map. 

Any feedback is welcome. You can contact me via the p.mapper
mailing list at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pmapper-users.


Changes:
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 p.mapper 3.1.0 June 20, 2007
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* New definition of attribute search, based on XML config file
* Checkboxes for categories and enable/disable all assigned layers
* First basic support for custom functions and plugins
* Default support for menus
* Automatic loading of custom CSS and Javascript
* all AJAX functions migrated to jQuery
* treeview style for query result based on jQuery treeview
* DHTML pop-up windows based on jqModal
* various bug fixes
* additional language support for CZ, BR, SK, ES

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 p.mapper 3.0.0 December 3, 2006
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* various bug fixes for 3.0.0 beta
* started migration of JavaScript code to 
  use jQuery library (http://jquery.com)

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 p.mapper 3.0.0 beta  November 13, 2006
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* move to NEW LICENSE: now under GPL instead of MIT
* new and more flexible layout using zones
* measure function with new features and enhancements
  thanks fo Federico Nieri
* new default layout for zoom slider
* scale bar with drop down list of pre-defined scales
* moved most of style settings from map.phtml to layout.css
* new themes for tool buttons