Re: [Webcomp-main] PhpBaseClasses status

[Philip V. H. <spa...@fr...>]

On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 14:23, James P. Howard wrote:

> Philip - Just got back in town. I'm impressed. I am doing
> http://webcomp.sourceforge.net/formforge/
> A simple tool for simple people to build websites. Generates CSS styled html 
> code. Your graph module has started several wheels spinning. It's been a long 
> day for me but when I wake up I'm going to start working on making your 
> reusable code usable... Jim


Okay, that would be great, the Graph-code was originally only for intern
usage in my company. But I told my boss that it would be better to make
it part of the rest of the LGPL'ed library :) .. so that is why you can
get your hands on it's sources.

We use this Graph-object to plot the Balanced Scorecard results of our
company on our Intranet website. We also sell this intranet-website as
packaged software.

This is, perhaps, why it is still a little bit clumbsy designed. It was
originally not ment for OpenSource distribution :) and for a specific
type of Graphs.

It would be great to make it more Open for non-database input. Please
note that if you want me to add it to the sources of PhpBaseClasses at
this moment; then it will have to be completely backwards compatible.
This "is" important because I don't want to spend more time on the
Object in order to use it for our Intranet website (read this as: I have
now other stuff to worry about at work).

You are, of course, free to use the code if you respect the LGPL license
for your own projects. I would be pleased if somebody took my work
(PhpBaseClasses) and the work of others and melted all this into a very
good general purpose library for PHP or, perhaps, a JSP and .NET-a-like
framework. IMHO, without it, PHP will loose a lot programmers using it
to ASP.NET and JSP. I don't care about JSP as I like this programming
environment very much .. However, I would dislike it if one told me to
start programming websites in ASP.NET (But that is subjective).



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