[Phpwiki-talk] New Ploticus plugin

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

I commited now a new Ploticus plugin.

The Ploticus WikiPlugin passes all its arguments to the ploticus
binary and displays the result as PNG, GIF, EPS, SVG, SVGZ or SWF.
Ploticus is a free, GPL, non-interactive software package
for producing plots, charts, and graphics from data.

See http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/doc/welcome.html

Limitations:
- For windows you need either a gd library with GIF support or
   a ploticus with PNG support. This comes only with the cygwin
   built pl221win32cygmax.zip.
- We support only images supported by GD so far (PNG most likely).
   No EPS, PS, SVG, SVGZ or SWG support yet due to API limitations in
   ~WikiPluginCached. No technical problems, so you can expect it soon.

A PloticusSql plugin to use data from sql queries is planned also. 
Similar to SqlResult, just in graphic form.
For example to produce nice looking pagehit statistics or ratings 
statistics. I got this idea from mediawiki.

plugincache-config.php must be configured properly and the external 
ploticus binary must be installed and defined in the file.

The PloticusPlugin page will be setup tomorrow at the demo site.
I want to revive VisualWiki also then.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/