I too think that JQPlot will be a good way to go for rendering graphs - looks simple enough to code for and the documentation is good.
However, one of the big things with the graphs that mahara currently displays is the complexity/slowness to generate the data for the graphs in the first place. In the past the mahara system would run cron jobs to generate the data and then generate the resultant graphs as an image file all in one step so that later the system could call these images to display on page load. If we are to make the graph generator be a javascript one then we should probably still generate the data via crons for the existing graphs and then save that data into a table so that JQPlot (or whatever) can call the JSON formatted data via ajax on page load. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mahara Contributors, which is subscribed to Mahara. Matching subscriptions: Subscription for all Mahara Contributors -- please ask on #mahara-dev or mahara.org forum before editing or unsubscribing it! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/853662 Title: Use newer and flashier graphing framework to generate graphs in Mahara Status in Mahara ePortfolio: Triaged Bug description: As discussed at 4th Developer Meeting - pChart may be a suitable framework for rendering graphs in Mahara, e.g. in the admin section, but we found out, that it+s not for commercial use, so it's not Open Source and cannot be used in Mahara. There is a suitable replacement: eZ Components - Graph component, because it generates images so the graphs do not require Javascript to be enabled. eZ Components are released under New BSD License: http://ezcomponents.org/introduction/license More info about eZ Components - Graph component: - Documentation at http://ezcomponents.org/docs/tutorials/Graph - Examples at http://ezcomponents.org/docs/api/trunk/Graph_gallery.html - Download at http://ezcomponents.org/download To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/853662/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors Post to : mahara-contributors@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
