[Phpmyadmin-devel] flash files

Martynas Mickevičius mmartynas at gmail.com
Wed Jun 16 14:57:48 CEST 2010


Hey everyone,

Well flash is as cross-browser as you can get. But I understand the need of
open source tools and plugins involved in pma. Maybe OFC was not the best
way to go for charts as there are lots of javascript utilities which do
almost the same thing.

For flot [1] to work in older IE browsers there is a need of HTML canvas
helper called excanvas [2] (as it is the case with many javascript
plotters). As I understand this is just a javascript library offering canvas
functionality.

The Raphael [3] is too general I believe. It is a tool to work with SVG. So
all the details that are needed for charts are missing there. More general
solutions of which are plenty would better suit our needs.

eZ Components Graph component [4] looks very good and is very well
documented. Before this I thought of implementing image chart renderer by
myself, but now I just do not see any reason for it, since eZ has many
functions that can be used.

eZ Components is a huge project in itself. But I believe the Graph component
can be used independently.

There is another PHP chart project that I stumbled upon which looks really
good. It is pChart [5]. However eZ says that they have a company behind
them. And their latest version is newer than pChart.

So now I believe I will scrap the flash approach and go with flot and eZ
Graph. First of all I will add eZ Graph to the places that OFC has been
added. Then I will proceed with flot.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/flot/
<http://code.google.com/p/flot/>[2] http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/
 <http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/>[3] http://raphaeljs.com/
<http://raphaeljs.com/>[4] http://ezcomponents.org/docs/tutorials/Graph
 <http://ezcomponents.org/docs/tutorials/Graph>[5]
http://pchart.sourceforge.net/index.phpHo

On 16 June 2010 13:00, Michael Keck <sfnet at michaelkeck.de> wrote:

>
>
> Am 16.06.2010 11:01, schrieb me at derrabus.de:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I don't know, if my word still counts in such decisions, but please...
> please no
> > FlashMyAdmin. Honestly.
> >
> Yes!
> > I just checked the server charts project abstract from the phpMyAdmin
> wiki, and
> > there it says: "All graphs would be drawn using GD2 and use information
> from the
> > MySQL server." So when and why did this requirement change?
> >
> That's what I'm tried to explain in previous post.
> > All the information you need to draw the chart is coming from the server,
> so why
> > don't you let the server generate it? There are approaches to do this
> with php,
> > for instance ezcGraph [1].
> >
> Nice and great other tool ;)
> > Regards,
> >
> > Alexander M. Turek
> >
> > [1] http://ezcomponents.org/docs/tutorials/Graph
> >
> >
> > "Martynas Mickevičius" <mmartynas at gmail.com> hat am 16. Juni 2010 um
> 09:08
> > geschrieben:
> >
> >
> >> No, we do not really need flash for charts. My initial thought was using
> >> Open Flash Chart project and local image charts for those who have JS
> >> enabled browsers and for those who do not. However there are some HTML5
> >> chart projects which offer good functionality and are only JS based.
> >>
> >> OFC which is now used has all the source code available.
> >>
> >> On 15 June 2010 23:31, Michael Keck <sfnet at michaelkeck.de> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>   Do we really need Flash for Charts?
> >>>
> >>> Am 15.06.2010 17:24, schrieb Martynas Mickevičius:
> >>>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>>   I wanted to ask where should I put the flash files needed for Charts.
> I
> >>> believe it would be good to create a folder *flash* in the root
> directory
> >>> and put them there. Is it OK?
> >>>
> >>>   Martynas
> >>>
> >>>
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