On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 18:06 -0500, David Huynh wrote: > (Chisimba sounds interesting. Feel free to share with us some URLs > where > we can check it out.)
Hi David et al, I have now incorporated a simple version of timeline into Chisimba. You can see it in action at http://5ive.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=timeline You can pass basic timeline parameters in the querystring. timeLine - Fully qualified URI for the timeline XML file focusDate - THe date to centre the timeline on intervalPixels - The number of pixels for the width of the interval intervalUnit - The timelines unit for the interval (e.g. DAY, MONTH, YEAR) tlHeight - the height in pixels of the timeline For example, try: http://5ive.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=timeline&focusDate=1919 http://5ive.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=timeline&focusDate=1964 or http://5ive.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=timeline&timeLine=http://yoursite/path/to/yourtimeline.xml where yourtimeline.xml is of the format, for example: <data> <event start="Jul 18, 1918" title="Mandela born" image="http://simile.mit.edu/images/csail-logo.gif";> Rolihlahla Mandela born in the small village of Qunu in the district of Mthatha, the Transkei capital on born July 18, 1918.His given name Rolihlahla means one who brings trouble upon himself. </event> </data> Warning: This is a work in progress and I have not yet added proper code comments or try/catch blocks. Now that I know how to do it, I will be adding some of the other features of timeline to the Chisimba timeline module. But first I am going to try to create a mashup with my google maps simplemap Chisimba module. I am not a javascript person, more PHP, so I hope you don't mind me asking a dumb question. Is there a way to move the focusDate on click? In the mashup, I want to make it possible to click a pin on the map, and then have the timeline move to the date of the clicked event. Hopefully I can figure out vice versa as well. Regards Derek > -- Prof. Derek W. Keats, PhD Executive Director, Information and Communication Services The University of the Western Cape, P. Bag X17, Bellville 7535, South Africa Web: http://ics.uwc.ac.za/ and http://avoir.uwc.ac.za Ph: +27 21 959 2304; Fax: +27 21 959 1201; Cell: +27 82 787 0169 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: dkeats
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