I starting a couple of projects where I hope to use TimeLine and TimePlot. Our goal is to have users contribute to the database through an online interface. One thought was to create a webform that allows users to enter data into a database (MySQL) then write a script (probably PHP or Python) that queries the database and returns XML or JSON data (not sure which is best) to the eventsource of the time* object.
For single events, this should be easy since all you need to capture is date/range, title, and description. For time series data, it would take more work since a dataset (csv, xls, tab files) would need to uploaded and parsed before going into the database. In any case, we'd need to work with authentication, editing submitted data, quality assurance, and similar issues. Has anyone done this before? Are there any obvious pitfalls (database schema, performance lag) that are known? Does this approach make sense? Thanks for any help you can provide. - John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
