Re: [Fwd: Re: [PHP] Displaying information from table graphically]

On 22 Nov 2008, at 16:23, dzenan.causevic@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
At least that eliminates GD as an option for this particular purpose.

Yes exactly something Flash like that allows interaction as well. But how
to exchange data between flash multimedia file and MySQL queries. This is
a serious issue, this is not trivial. I know there must be some way, but I
also dont know if it's worth it. That's why I need to do this research in
order to determine what kind of work this particular project would
involve. Your help is invaluable in that respect. Thanks goes to all of
you zillion times :)

Since you would be using coordinates to composite the images, building an imagemap at the same time should be really simple. However, I'd still go with constructing the images in divs or a table due to the relative simplicity.

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On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 14:22 -0100, dzenan.causevic@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I mean composite in a figurative way, but they have to be overlapping
individual images in order to be individually clickable. Does GD allow
that? Can I create multiple images on the top of each other in GD?

And how would imagemap work in this respect?

On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 12:51 -0100, dzenan.causevic@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Okay I would probabily define few functions such as room(), bed(),
bed_status() etc. that I could use for any room and then it would be
just
a matter of passing right arguments to those funtions.

However would those beds within the room composite graphic be
individually
clickable? So the composite graphic must be interactive in nature.
User
must be able to click on individual beds inside the room in order to
change its status. Would GD approach allow this kind of interaction?

On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 12:14 -0100, dzenan.causevic@xxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
It's not kind of a school/college project that I am too lazy to
do.
It's
just a matter of having 800 rooms and about 2,500 beds so I
believe
it's
gonna take forever defining all of those graphics via GD
functions.
That's
why I think I need to go with some rapid approach. I never used
GD's
so
I
dont even know how complex it is generating graphics this way. And
also
those graphics dont need to be sophisticated. Just simple graphic
representations of rooms and beds in few different colors
indicating
wheter bed is free, occupied, or reserved.

GD just seems too powerful and too time consuming for this task. I
probabily need some rapid approach with limited graphic
capabilities.
Does
such exist that's my question at this point of time

On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 16:55 -0100, dzenan.causevic@xxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
I have a PHP application that accesses data from MySQL. There
is
table
called "rooms", and table called "beds". There is another table
called
"patients". Patients are being placed into beds, and beds are
in
the
rooms. PHP application currently displays all information in
textual
mode
via regular HTML tags. But I would like to have that
information
displayed
in graphical mode instead of textual mode.

Is there a way to display this information from the database
graphically.
Graphic would represent a room, and it would contain beds
inside.
You
would be able to see visually which beds are occupied and which
are
free
by looking at the graphics.

User of the system wants pictures instead of text displayed via
HTML
tables as a list of entries.

Anyone knows anything like this?
Thanks,
Dzenan



This sounds a lot like a school/college/uni project that you're
too
lazy
to research... Correct me if I'm wrong.

The other guys who have answered are all spot on when they say
you
need
to look at the GD library.


Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk


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GD is fine for what you need to do, and it shouldn't be difficult
to
create what you need to do. There isn't any pre-built rooms()
function
in it, but just build that yourself and use basic math to create
the
graphics you need.


Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk



The only way you could achieve clickable parts of a composite image
like
that is either to not have it as a composite and use many images, or
use
an imagemap.


Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk



I don't think you can do that in anything. GD outputs an image, which
can be made up of layers, but there is no provision in the browser to
allow you to select an image below another one even if you can see it
because the top-most image is transparent. I think what you're really
looking for is something Flash based?


Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk





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