Function msProcessTemplate

maptemplate.c:4662–4710

** Utility function to open a template file, process it and ** and return into a buffer the processed template. Uses the ** template file from the web object. Returns NULL if there is ** an error. */

** an error.
*/ 
char *msProcessTemplate(mapObj *map, int bGenerateImages, char **names, char **values, int numentries)
{
  char *pszBuffer = NULL;

  if(map) {

    /* Initialize object and set appropriate defaults. */
    mapservObj  *mapserv  = NULL;
    mapserv = msAllocMapServObj();

    mapserv->map = map;
    mapserv->Mode = BROWSE;

    if(names && values && numentries > 0) {
      msFreeCharArray(mapserv->request->ParamNames, mapserv->request->NumParams);
      msFreeCharArray(mapserv->request->ParamValues, mapserv->request->NumParams);
      mapserv->request->ParamNames = names;
      mapserv->request->ParamValues = values;
      mapserv->request->NumParams = numentries;    
    }

    /*
    ** ISSUE/TODO : some of the name/values should be extracted and
    ** processed (ex imgext, layers, ...) as it is done in function
    ** loadform.
    */

    if(bGenerateImages)
      msGenerateImages(mapserv, MS_FALSE, MS_FALSE);

    /*
    ** Process the template.
    **
    ** TODO : use web minscaledenom/maxscaledenom depending on the scale.
    */
    if(msReturnPage(mapserv, mapserv->map->web.template, BROWSE, &pszBuffer) != MS_SUCCESS) {
        msFree(pszBuffer);
        pszBuffer = NULL;
    }

    /* Don't free the map and names and values arrays since they were passed by reference. */
    mapserv->map = NULL;
    mapserv->request->ParamNames = mapserv->request->ParamValues = NULL;
    mapserv->request->NumParams = 0;
    msFreeMapServObj(mapserv);
  }

  return pszBuffer;
}

/*
** Utility method to process the legend template.