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