On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Marc Delisle <marc(a)infomarc.info> wrote: Ahh, okay, thanks for letting me know. I just read through some of the comments on the schema output request and I was wondering if there were other export formats besides dia, svg and eps (I think dia itself can convert to both svg and eps) needed? Like perhaps exports for other uml diagram tools? Finally, would the next step be to implement a feature/fix a bug in phpMyAdmin? Yian Shang

Yeah, I looked through the current generator some more and most of the code for the PDF export seems to be focused on exporting the data rather than the schema. I think, however, the generic class structure for the dia xml export would be similar to he PDF/XML export, as there'd be functions generating headers and footers as well as functions to handle the different types of objects (arrows, boxes, etc) and to handle the relative locations/colors of all uml objects on the grid. Then the function that determines the schema would call each of these auxiliary functions to put the schema into place. A similar thing could be done for exporting to svg and eps. Finally, for organization, would there be some sort of overall class that handles processing the schema and then have subclasses for each different format (xml, svg, eps) that takes care of the details of outputting the schema as a diagram? So the overall class might have functions like "determine_schema" whereas each subclass would have "draw_arrow", "draw_box" (which write the xml), etc. Would something like that work? -- Yian Shang

DO That's true, thanks for clarifying. So since SVG and EPS are both just XML files, would using PHP's DOM libraries to generate them be best? And also, since phpMyAdmin is rewriting things in object-oriented php, would that be the way in which elements of pdf_schema.php are combined into a generic schema generating class and then used by other formats?

I think that makes sense. Would the pdf schema export eventually also be converted to use this framework? (Or is it better left alone since it already works?) Yian On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Michal Čihař &lt;michal(a)cihar.com&gt; wrote: > Hi > > Dne Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:16:34 -0700 > Yian Shang &lt;yian.shang(a)gmail.com&gt; napsal(a): > > > So since SVG and EPS are both just XML files > > No, EPS is text format, not a XML. See > <http://www.tailrecursive.org/postscript/eps.html>. > > > , would using PHP's DOM > > libraries to generate them be best? And also, since phpMyAdmin is > rewriting > > things in object-oriented php, would that be the way in which elements of > > pdf_schema.php are combined into a generic schema generating class and > then > > used by other formats? > -- > Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel&#174; Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Phpmyadmin-devel mailing list > Phpmyadmin-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpmyadmin-devel > >

Hi, I think it would be easier to first convert it. We don't want to That makes sense, thanks for clarifying. I just recently submitted my proposal, and I'd be very grateful if any feedback can be provided about it. Thanks, Yian