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The answer to your question is subjective (a matter of opinion) so it might be voted down (-1). Since your new to this site, I will go ahead and answer -- mapserver, open layers and postgis sql would be a very good combination for an open source solution. Geoserver is also an option instead of mapserver -- it is java based. There are also other javascript ...
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There are a lot of options. OpenLayers or Leaflet are probably a good place to start for the client side and they can read local shapefiles. For more options have a look at the OsGeo website (especially note the webmapping links on the right hand side).
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What is important to note, is that Web-Gis is a vast field, and a lot of work has already been done on several projects and libraries to help out in this endeavor. So we need to see if there is something which you can reuse, instead of starting from scratch.
The bad news is that there is no popular library/application for web-mapping in php. The Good news ...
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For current method ST_AsText() I suggest that you request GeoJSON instead this can be requested from PostGIS natively
Example:
SELECT ST_AsGeoJSON(the_geom) from fe_edges limit 1;
st_asgeojson
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