NYCPHP Meetup

[ophir prusak]

I've heard good things about jpgraph:
http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/

Ophir

Faber Fedor wrote:

>I'm not sure if this is on-topic for this group, but I'm sure I'll hear
>about it if it isn't. :-)
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>One of my clients has hired a third-party vendor to write a graphical
>front-end to the database that I'm constructing.  It's not an admin
>tool; it's more of a graphical report-generator.  
>
>Example usage: You click on a link and up pops a graph of the stock 
>market and several indices for the past week. Click on the red index
>line anywhere in the Tuesday area and a graph appears showing just that 
>index on an hourly basis for Tuesday.
>
>The third party vendor is doing this under a legacy operating system
>(and I'm going to have to tie it in to MySQL running on RHEL 3! Oh
>joy!).  
>
>I was wondering how you would do this under F/OSS? Would it make sense
>to do this in PHP on the backend?  How would you do the drill-downs? I'm
>thinking maybe XUL on the front-end making database calls via XML-RPC
>but how would you generate new graphics?
>
>I think something like this would go over *very well* in business, but I
>haven't seen the technology in F/OSS to allow it. Are there
>libraries/PEAR packages/CPAN modules/etc. that would make this
>(relatively) easy for a developer to slap together?
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