[Phpmyadmin-devel] GSoc 2010 - Charts in server status page

[Marc Delisle]

Madhura Jayaratne a écrit :
> Hi everyone,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>  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)
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> 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.
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> Would love to hear your opinion about this
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> Thanx in advance
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> Regards,
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> -- 
> Madhura Jayaratne

Are you thinking about a js framework (producing the charts on the 
client) or a PHP framework (running on the server).

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Marc Delisle
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