[pcplantdb] More geeky (and graphy) stuff

Bear Kaufmann bear at ursine-design.com
Tue Aug 2 15:42:09 EDT 2005


On Tuesday, August 2, 2005, at 12:39  PM, Chad Knepp wrote:

> Bear Kaufmann writes:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Congrats on the letter from Encarta to PFAF. It'd definitely increase
>> visibility to a lot of users (and draw eyes from folk looking for the
>> name of cabbage).
>>
>> Last night I searched around, and played with some graphing engines,
>> and producing dynamic XML from the database on the fly.
>> Here, I'm finding all the uses used by a plant Family, then graphing 
>> it
>> out. You can start to see the connections/relatedness in terms of use.
>>
>> Check out:
>> http://www.permaculture.info/test/graph/perfuse_dev.php
>>
>> Proof of concept. Best proof? Hardly, but a start.
>
> Very nice, Richard did a demo app like this earlier.  I'm curious as
> to how it connects to the info.  Static file?  I think xml-rpc will be
> pretty handy for connecting the data to a GBI part.

Since I was having trouble connecting to the DB on ibiblio, yes, 3 
static files.
On localhost, you can enter any family into the url (family=), and get 
dynamic results.

Hmm, is Richard's still around?

Cheers,
Bear




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