1. Enriching your Views Ben Scholzen Game Developer Gameforge Productions

2. What we will cover

Zend_ProgressBar

Applications

3. Structure 4. Usage in the Web and on the ConsoleZend_Tag_Cloud

Definition of Tags and Tagclouds

5. Advantages of Zend_Tag_Cloud 6. Basic usage 7. Zend_ProgressBar 8. What Zend_ProgressBar does

Takes absolute progress data

9. Calculates relative progress data 10. Display the progress

Sort of ...

11. Sample output for end-users

Web

12. Console 13. Where you can use progress bars

Sending newsletters

14. Upload 15. Download 16. Processing files 17. Any other long-running tasks 18. Structureof Zend_ProgressBar

Zend_ProgressBar

Managing absolute values

19. Session management Zend_ProgressBar adapters

Receiving relative calculated values

20. Output of the data 21. Incremental example

Useful for fixed-growing values

22. Differential example

Useful for variable-growing values

23. The three standard adapters

Zend_ProgressBar_Adapter_Console

For output on the console

Zend_ProgressBar_Adapter_JsPush

For sending data in a single connection

Zend_ProgressBar_Adapter_JsPull

For sending data in multiple connections

24. The console adapter

Style of the output can be completly customized

25. Elements can be arranged

Bar

26. Percent 27. ETA 28. Text Output stream can be changed 29. Finish action can be choosen

Newline

30. Remove progressbar 31. Do nothing 32. The JavaScript Push adapter

Only requires a single connection

A separate one when doing uploads

33. A combined one when sending e-mails Used with either or 34. Drawbacks

Some antivirus software blocks the receiving until the connection was closed

35. The JavaScript Pull adapter

Runs in multiple separated connections

36. New data are received via JSON 37. Update interval can be freely choosen 38. Drawbacks

Depending on the update interval, many connections can slow down the server

39. On the browser side

Calculated data are received by the browser

Current

40. Max 41. Percent 42. TimeTaken 43. TimeRemaining 44. Text Output is created with HTML / CSS / JavaScript

JavaScript Frameworks (jQuery, Dojo, etc.)

45. Manually 46. Zend_Tag_Cloud

Zend_ProgressBar

47. Zend_Tag_Cloud

Was sind Tags

48. Vorteile von Zend_Tag_Cloud 49. Benutzung Fragen & Antworten 50. What are tags and tag clouds?

Tags

Catchwords / Notes

Tag clouds

Visualization of information

51. Collection of tags 52. Alphabetically sorted 53. Tags are visualized according to their weight 54. How a tag cloud looks like 55. Why should I use Zend_Tag_Cloud?

Interface / class for single tags

Setting and getting the title

56. Defining custom parameters Class for collections of tags

Simple iteration through all tags

57. Automatic callculation of logarithmical weight Class for output of tag clouds

Comes with a standard decorator for HTML

Can be completly customized

Allows output on any media Decorators and tags can be added either via configuration or programtically 58. A simple example 59. And what you get 60. What we got so far

Within a few minutes we created:

Multiple tags with weight and links

61. HTML output 62. Style the nasty list 63. The final result 64. Summary Questions?

Zend_ProgressBar

65. Zend_Tag_Cloud

Was sind Tags

66. Vorteile von Zend_Tag_Cloud 67. Benutzung Fragen & Antworten 68. Where to go from here

Zend Framework documentation http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.progressbar.html http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.tag.html

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