Steve Lime

Good catch on the [nr] tag, I had forgotten about that. Computing the total across all layers is easy but if there's already a function out there to do that...

Quick update... I have a patch working, just trying to press a new development box into service to finish it up... --Steve

I need to check on this one. That general syntax was removed in 8.0 but may have been retained in some form...

By removed I meant the more general mapfile modification syntax starting with _map__ or _map._. However, a few simple params like map_resolution and map_size were retained for backwards compatibility because...

Can you test w/supported versions? Either 7.6.5 or 8.0.2.

Is the algorithm associated with the solution well known?

Could/should the lock be put back?

Might be good to get a quick comment from @rouault.

Does Python behave similarly or is this PHP-specific?

Yes, looks like a documentation issue. The OGC API code uses some WFS helper functions (they are closely related). So in this case, folks would also want to explicitly turn...