Use the head and bottom template in the layer

how to use

Take a look at this example in the implementation, open the map in Example 3 and cancel the header and footer in the city area layer. Save MapFile when done。

The HEADER and FOOTER object keywords within the layer are used to define the template keywords used in the header and footer templates. You can uncomment the following two lines to see the template files themselves and see how they work.

HEADER '../templates/cities_header.html'
FOOTER '../templates/cities_footer.html'

Check the layer of "City" and click the "Refresh" button. The map will be refreshed and the city layer should now be displayed. Change the map mode to "Query Single Layer" or "Query Multiple Layers" and click on one of the cities.

The result should now have a heading and should be presented in tabular form

Here's what the cities_header.html looks like

    <b>Layer: cities</b>
  <p>
  <table cellpadding=5 cellspacing=2 border=0>
    <tr bgcolor=#CCCCCC>
      <td bgcolor=#ffffff> </td>
      <th>NAME</th>
      <th>STATE</th>
    </tr>

Here again is the content of cities_query.html file

    <tr>
      <td>[lrn]</td>
      <td>[NAME]</td>
      <td>[STATE]</td>
    </tr>

And finally, here's what the cities_footer.html looks like

  </table>
  <p>

When MapServer processes the query for a particular layer, it first looks for a header template for that layer. It will then process the records that it gets back from the database, applying the query template for each record. When the template has been applied to all records, it will again look for the footer template for the layer. View the source of the query result page to see how this works

View the MapFile | View the HTML Template

Open the example

	7	FONTSET "../fonts/fonts.list"		7	FONTSET "../fonts/fonts.list"
n	8	TEMPLATEPATTERN "tmpl-*"	n	8	TEMPLATEPATTERN "example-p*"
	9	LEGEND		9	LEGEND
	17	END		17	END
n	18	SYMBOL	n
	19	NAME "star"
	20	TYPE VECTOR
	21	FILLED TRUE
	22	POINTS
	23	0 0.375
	24	0.35 0.375
	25	0.5 0
	26	0.65 0.375
	27	1 0.375
	28	0.75 0.625
	29	0.875 1
	30	0.5 0.75
	31	0.125 1
	32	0.25 0.625
	33	END
	34	END
	35	REFERENCE		18	REFERENCE
	36	IMAGE "../images/worldref.png"		19	IMAGE "../images/worldref.png"
n	37	SIZE 300 150	n	20	SIZE 155 105
	38	EXTENT -180 -90 180 90		21	EXTENT -180 -90 180 90
	39	STATUS ON		22	STATUS ON
n	40	MINBOXSIZE 30	n	23	MINBOXSIZE 10
	41	MAXBOXSIZE 150		24	MAXBOXSIZE 150
n	42	COLOR 255 255 0	n	25	COLOR -1 -1 -1
	43	OUTLINECOLOR 255 50 50		26	OUTLINECOLOR 128 0 0
	44	MARKERSIZE 30		27	MARKERSIZE 8
	45	MARKER "star"		28	MARKER "star"
n	46	END	n
	47	QUERYMAP
	48	SIZE 200 150
	49	STATUS ON
	50	STYLE HILITE
	51	COLOR 255 0 0
	52	END		29	END
	59	STYLE 1		36	STYLE 1
n	60	SIZE 160 2	n	37	SIZE 100 2
	61	COLOR 0 0 0		38	COLOR 0 0 0
n	62	UNITS KILOMETERS	n	39	UNITS MILES
	63	INTERVALS 2		40	INTERVALS 2
	67	WEB		44	WEB
n	68	HEADER "qtpl_header.html"	n
	69	FOOTER "qtpl_footer.html"
	70	TEMPLATE "to be replaced by map_web_template variable in section3.html"		45	TEMPLATE "to be replaced by map_web_template variable in section3.html"
	79	LAYER		54	LAYER
n	80	NAME "land"	n	55	NAME "topo"
	81	DATA "land_shallow_topo_8192.tif"		56	DATA "land_shallow_topo_8192.tif"
	83	TYPE RASTER		58	TYPE RASTER
n			n	59	PROCESSING "BANDS=1,2,3"
				60	OFFSITE 71 74 65
	84	END		61	END
	85	LAYER		62	LAYER
n	86	NAME "topo"	n	63	NAME "modis_jpl"
	87	TYPE RASTER		64	TYPE RASTER
n			n	65	OFFSITE 0 0 0
				66	STATUS OFF
	88	CONNECTIONTYPE WMS		67	CONNECTIONTYPE WMS
	106	LABELITEM "NAME"		85	LABELITEM "NAME"
n			n	86	HEADER "../maptmpl/states_header.html"
				87	FOOTER "../maptmpl/states_footer.html"
	107	TOLERANCE 3		88	TOLERANCE 3
	109	NAME "the States"		90	NAME "the States"
n	110	TEMPLATE "qtpl_country.html"	n	91	TEMPLATE "../maptmpl/states_query.html"
	111	STYLE		92	STYLE
	131	DATA "wriver.shp"		112	DATA "wriver.shp"
n	132	STATUS ON	n	113	STATUS OFF
	133	TYPE LINE		114	TYPE LINE
n	134	TOLERANCE 3	n
	135	CLASS		115	CLASS
	136	NAME "World River"		116	NAME "World River"
t	137	TEMPLATE "qtpl_river.html"	t
	138	STYLE		117	STYLE

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