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The *Ploticus* plugin passes all its arguments to the ploticus
binary and displays the result as PNG, GIF, EPS, SVG, SVGZ or SWF.
Ploticus is a free, GPL, non-interactive software package
for producing plots, charts, and graphics from data.
See http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/doc/welcome.html
Ploticus uses a cache expire date of days.
!!! Usage
or without any script: (not tested)
TODO: ~PloticusSql - create intermediate data from SQL. Similar to [SqlResult|Help:SqlResultPlugin],
just in graphic form.
For example to produce nice looking pagehit statistics or ratings statistics.
Ploticus has its own sql support within #getproc data, but this would expose security information.
!!! Arguments
__device__: |
gif, png, jpeg, svg, svgz, eps, swf. Any -T parameter supported by ploticus. Default: png
__data__: |
optionally add data by pagelist plugins. See [WikiPlugin|Help:WikiPlugin]
__alt__: |
alt text for the image
__-prefab__: |
use the given prefab script (may need PLOTICUS_PREFABS)
__-csmap__: |
If a clickable map should be produced (not yet tested)
passed to ploticus as -csmap -mapfile $tempfile.map
__help__: |
Show a help screen
All other arguments are used as source to ploticus.
!!! Known Problems
For Windows you need either a gd library with GIF support or
a Ploticus with PNG support. This comes only with the Cygwin
build so far.
!!! Optional Configuration
config.ini:
PLOTICUS_EXE = pl.exe (on windows)
PLOTICUS_EXE = /usr/local/bin/pl (elsewhere)
prefabs need the environment variable PLOTICUS_PREFABS. Default: /usr/share/ploticus.
Maybe also set by the config variable PLOTICUS_PREFABS.
See also [WikiPluginCached|Help:WikiPluginCached] options in config.ini.
!!! Examples
The pie chart above was produced by this code from the ploticus
testsuite:
!!! Author
[Reini Urban|PhpWiki:ReiniUrban]
!!! See Also
Help:GraphVizPlugin
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