[Phpmyadmin-devel] flash files

Wed Jun 16 16:37:02 CEST 2010

I believe this is the example you had in mind [1]. It looks really good. An
this is really great because users without JS support would just get plain
picture.

[1] http://pchart.sunyday.net/ImageMap/

On 16 June 2010 16:29, Michael Keck <sfnet at michaelkeck.de> wrote:

>
>
> Am 16.06.2010 14:57, schrieb Martynas Mickevičius:
>
> 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/
> [2] http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/
> [3] http://raphaeljs.com/
> [4] http://ezcomponents.org/docs/tutorials/Graph
> [5] http://pchart.sourceforge.net/index.phpHo
>
>
> pChart is nice, small and easy to implement. Width jQuery (there's
> somewhere a plugin called imagemap) you're able to have a quick functional
> solution which is fully crossbrowser compatible. The imagemap plugin from
> jquery is only required to get the same functionality as OFC, but with
> javascript, on the fly without needed plugins. on pChart there must be (if I
> remember right) an example to generate charts, display theme and animate it
> with tooltips like OFC.
>
> Michael
>
>
> 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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