MapServer MapScript Modules

Much of MapServer's functionality is accessible from Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, C#, and Tcl. MapScript is not a language like JavaScript or Python. It is a loadable module that brings MapServer capabilities to your favorite high level programming language.

PHP and SWIG Branches of MapScript

The MapScript family tree looks like this:

          MapServer
             /\
            /  \
           /    \
PHPMapScript     \  SWIGMapScript
    PHP5/7    +----+-----+----+----+--+----+------------+
              |    |     |    |    |  |    |            |
            Perl Python Ruby Java C# Tcl  PHP7 (PHPNG) ...

The SWIGMapScript modules are generated by SWIG. The PHPMapScript module is developed using the PHP C API without using SWIG. PHP users therefore have a choice of using the SWIG generated module or the custom written PHP module.

PHPMapScript

Source code, detailed installation instructions are located in the mapscript/php folder. Documentation can be found in the PHP MapScript Documentation section.

SWIG MapScript

Installation instructions are located in the individual languages directories such as mapscript/perl, mapscript/python.

The main MapScript SWIG interface file is mapscript/mapscript.i. This file includes specific class interface files from mapscript/swiginc and language specific code from the language directories.

Note the v8 folder contains files for V8 MapScript Support. This is not a JavaScript version of MapScript, but provides support for the use of JavaScript in STYLEITEM and GEOTRANSFORM.

API Documentation can be found at the Shared SWIG MapScript Documentation page.