web server auestion

2006-11-26 Thread Erez D
I am looking for a way to display a graph via web and letting the viewer zoom, move, and so. the graph should be automatically generated (i.e. cgi). how can i do that ? erez.

Re: web server auestion

2006-11-26 Thread Danny Lieberman
Take a look at GraphViz, I think they have all kinds of canned cgi scripts If you are running PHP you can call the object in Pear where it's called Image Graph Viz and roll your own. It's pretty well documented and functional Erez D wrote: I am looking for a way to display a graph via web

Re: web server auestion

2006-11-26 Thread Erez D
thanks for the reply, i looked at http://www.graphviz.org/ , but i'm looking for a different king of graph - a graph similar to what you get from a spreadsheet ( e.g. dots, lines, pie chart, etc ...) 10x erez. On 11/26/06, Danny Lieberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look at GraphViz, I

Re: web server auestion

2006-11-26 Thread Danny Lieberman
Erez If you do Java then its Jgraph - http://www.jgraph.com/downloads.html. Jgraph is great altho a) I personally despise Java b) Jgraph uses a commercial license If you do PHP then try Jpgraph - http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/ - be the PHP wannabe of Jgraph which is the top of the line. They

Re: web server auestion

2006-11-26 Thread Eli Marmor
Erez D wrote: I am looking for a way to display a graph via web and letting the viewer zoom, move, and so. the graph should be automatically generated (i.e. cgi). how can i do that ? If all you need is a server-side library to create GIFs/JPEGs/PNGs and to manipulate them, then libgd is

Re: web server auestion

2006-11-26 Thread Eli Marmor
I wrote: Erez D wrote: I am looking for a way to display a graph via web and letting the viewer zoom, move, and so. the graph should be automatically generated (i.e. cgi). how can i do that ? If all you need is a server-side library to create GIFs/JPEGs/PNGs and to manipulate

Re: web server auestion

2006-11-26 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Erez D [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am looking for a way to display a graph via web and letting the viewer zoom, move, and so. the graph should be automatically generated (i.e. cgi). how can i do that ? erez. Hmm... For FOSS solutions http://www.graphviz.org/ comes to mind, but you'll have

Re: web server auestion

2006-11-26 Thread Oded Arbel
On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 18:22 +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: If you need dynamic graphics, that can be manipulated in client-side (e.g. by JavaScript code), then you are in troubles: Canvas is great, but works only under Mozilla/FireFox. SVG is great too, but works only under Mozilla/FireFox. Both

Re: web server auestion

2006-11-26 Thread Eli Marmor
Oded Arbel wrote: On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 18:22 +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: If you need dynamic graphics, that can be manipulated in client-side (e.g. by JavaScript code), then you are in troubles: Canvas is great, but works only under Mozilla/FireFox. SVG is great too, but works only

Re: web server auestion

2006-11-26 Thread Peter
See ImageMagick's convert -draw option for straight CGI scripting. See PHP's gd extension for drawing from PHP. The other solutions are very heavy imho. Post script source generation followed by rendering by gs is also an option. PHP+gd is the 'default' way to do it with Apache servers. This

Re: web server auestion

2006-11-26 Thread Amos Shapira
On 27/11/06, Erez D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a way to display a graph via web and letting the viewer zoom, move, and so. the graph should be automatically generated (i.e. cgi). I'm pretty sure I've seen once a mashup which uses Google Finance/Google Trends' graphing widget