[analog-help] adding a dynamic element to analog?

[Jeremy Wadsack]

> How plausible is it to allow clients to choose a report period and
> have it run almost instantaneously? I'm running PHP and am seriously
> thinking about making the analog report page have select boxes like
> this month to date, last month to date, last six months, etc.

This depends mostly on the size of the log files to process. You can get
some speed improvements by using cache files
(http://analog.cx/docs/cache.html). However, this will limit the kind of
other settings you can allow the users to change because cache files
break all the data relationships.

> Has anyone done this using PHP? I'm specifically interested in
> forking this process with a "please wait" screen. Any insights would
> be greatly appreciated.

Ajax is your friend here.

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Jeremy Wadsack
Seven Simple Machines