Jun 18th, 2011, 4:40 AM
Google Charts API is *brilliant*. I've been following their progress for a while now.
So right now I don't know of any easy way to do this, I'll be honest. I wouldn't do a cron, no: since it'll be client-facing, I'd be more tempted to do something in JS to keep requesting data from the server every few seconds, then redraw the visualization. All those queries would be server-intensive, so there would need to be a nice fast script running on the server to return the appropriate results.
But this is all rather abstract, sorry. I don't have any recommendations I'm afraid...
- Ben
So right now I don't know of any easy way to do this, I'll be honest. I wouldn't do a cron, no: since it'll be client-facing, I'd be more tempted to do something in JS to keep requesting data from the server every few seconds, then redraw the visualization. All those queries would be server-intensive, so there would need to be a nice fast script running on the server to return the appropriate results.
But this is all rather abstract, sorry. I don't have any recommendations I'm afraid...
- Ben