The setHex method of PHP MapScript doesn't work - php

Question

I'm using PHP MapScript 6.4 to interact with my Mapfile.
I try to use the setHex() colorObj method like that:
$oStyle->color->setHex($color);
Where $color is an hexadecimal value as we can see in my logs
But regarding the MapScript https://mapserver.org/mapscript/php/phpmapscript.html#colorObj I can use setHex() method.
It works perfectly fine with $oStyle->color->setRGB(255,255,255); for example, so why not setHex()?
I'm using MapScript 6.4, I have looked at the 6.0.1 release documentation and the setHex() method exists.

Answer 1

thanks for using MapServer ! Here are some important points:
setHex() is not available in MapServer 6.x for PHP MapScript: you can find the documentation for your exact version by:
going to https://mapserver.org
goto "Documentation" https://mapserver.org/documentation.html
at the top click on "Documentation for earlier versions of MapServer can be found on the Download page"
there you can see the various versions you can download for the documentation, such as 6.4 https://mapserver.org/pdf/MapServer-64.pdf
search for "setHex" and you will only find it only inside the SWIG MapScript section
setHex() and toHex() for PHP MapScript were added to the MapServer 7.0.0 release (ticket: https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/5078)
I've now added the text "new in version 7.0.0" to the colorObj for those methods at https://mapserver.org/mapscript/php/phpmapscript.html#colorobj
Please also note:
there was a major vulnerability found in PHP MapScript recently (6.4.4 and 7.4.4 were released for this reason)
PHP MapScript is unsupported/unmaintained, and therefore SWIG MapScript is recommended moving forward (which has full PHP7 support)
Thanks for using MapServer. Happy (fast) mapserving!
-Jeff McKenna