<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">>> Hi everyone,<br>>><br>>> My name is Madhura Jayaratne and I am an undergraduate from the<br>
>> University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka. I have few years of experience in<br>>> using php and mySql and was a user of phpMyAdmin for few years.<br>>><br>>> When I was going through the GSoC idea list I noticed the project idea<br>
>> on charts and was interested as I have engaged in developing a general<br>>> charting framework during my internship. I went through the requested<br>>> feature list and had a look at the area of the codebase where I have to<br>
>> do the development.<br>>><br>>> I have few ideas to add in this regard. My feeling is that, before<br>>> adding charts to the runtime information tab we should put in place a<br>>> framework that would allow us to extend charting facilitates wherever we<br>
>> want to have it in phpMyAdmin.<br>>><br>>> What I'm proposing is a general data structure that would facilitate<br>>> multiple types of charts (we can learn a lot from Google Visualization<br>
>> API in this regard), and a set of interfaces that would facilitate<br>>> different implementation for different chart rendering engines( we can<br>>> even go for something other than CD2, if we feel like that sometimes<br>
>> down the line)<br>>><br>>> Though this would take few weeks of extra time, I feel that this allows<br>>> a lot of extensibility. When we have this framework in place we can do<br>>> the implementation as for the requirement we have now and we can go on<br>
>> to add different charts to phpMyAdimn in the future as the requirement<br>>> arises.<br>>><br>>> Would love to hear your opinion about this<br>>><br>>> Thanx in advance<br>>><br>
>> Regards,<br>>> --<br>>> Madhura Jayaratne<br>><br>> Are you thinking about a js framework (producing the charts on the<br>> client) or a PHP framework (running on the server).<br>><br>> --<br>
> Marc Delisle<br>> <a href="http://infomarc.info/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 88, 181); ">http://infomarc.info</a> <<a href="http://infomarc.info/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 88, 181); ">http://infomarc.info/</a>><br>
><br>><br>> What I had in my mind was a PHP framework running on the server.<br>> What do you think about that?<br>><br>> Regards<br>> --<br>> Madhura Jayaratne<br><br>We'll have to see. Please read this list's archives for past discussions<br>
a few weeks ago about templating and PHP frameworks.<br><br>--<br>Marc Delisle<br><a href="http://infomarc.info/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 88, 181); ">http://infomarc.info</a><br></span><br><div><br></div><div>
<br></div><div>Sure, I'll do that and post to the forum if I have any further queries regarding <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">templating and PHP frameworks</span>.</div>
<div>Thanx and regards<br>-- <br>Madhura Jayaratne<br><br>
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