froscon2007 - 0.96
FrOSCon
Free and Open Source Software Conference
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Balazs Dianiska |
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| Day | 2 |
| Room | HS6 |
| Start time | 10:00 |
| Duration | 01:00 |
| Info | |
| ID | 55 |
| Event type | Lecture |
| Track | Drupal |
| Language | English |
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Drupal as a graphics platform
Implementing graphic API into Drupal with built-in SVG support
Drupal is well known as one of the most dynamically developed content management systems (CMS). As proof of this the organization has received 20 student slots from the Google Summer of Code 2007 program. Within this program I am creating a brand new drawing API for Drupal, enabling developers to display information in graphic form (e.g. graphs) easily. In the proposed talk I am planning to outline the structure of the API, how developers can exploit its potential features, and what these potential features could be.
To represent certain types of information the best way to go is using graphics. These cases are typically when one has to display numeric information, when visual comparison is easier than doing the math. Statistical data are a good example, everyone has seen google analytics. The Drawing API in Drupal will help the developers in providing the shapes in a Form API-like way. My talk about the API itself will focus on the following topics:
- Multi-object handling (canvas),
- Transformation (rotate, skew, resize),
- Pre-defined shapes,
- the SVG toolkit.