Re: Displaying information from table graphically

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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
>



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