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

[Marc Delisle]

Madhura Jayaratne a écrit :
>>  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