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Two Quick Questions

jimmygoon
Mint-less
Posted on Mar 26, '07 at 10:25 pm

I hope to be a proud owner of a license for Mint 2.xx in about a month as my birthday is coming around, and I decided it was something that I “needed”… and now I’ve got two quick questions.

First, what software in this forum running on, is it still punBB?

Second, and more importantly, does the Mint API have the extensibility to encorporate a “heatmap” plugin - one that would show cool pictures of where users are clicking on my pages? I know this would require the GD library and some javascript. If no such plugin exists I would be very interested in writing one and releasing it of course (after I review what license I have to release it under of course)…

Thanks for the information.

Sam Brown
Pepper Developer
Posted on Mar 27, '07 at 05:54 am

First, what software in this forum running on, is it still punBB?

Not anymore, this is Shauns own home-grown PHP.

Second, and more importantly, does the Mint API have the extensibility to encorporate a “heatmap” plugin.

I don’t see why not, however, I haven’t delved very deep into the API to give you a concrete answer. Something that other Pepper Developers will be able to tell you.

That said, what I can say is that it would be a very welcome Pepper!

Remote Sensing Tools
Minted
Posted on Mar 29, '07 at 08:18 am

Heatmapping would rock my socks off. (As long as it incorporated the view as an onion-skin over the page, and not simply a heatmap without visual reference.)

jimmygoon
Mint-less
Posted on Mar 29, '07 at 06:22 pm

I would just create another div to include the picture and make it transparent (or the image would be transparent, one of the two) and allow the user to activate/deactivate the so called “onion-skin”.

Some JS to map each onclick to its X,Y coords and send to serverPHP ajax style to record/count its value and then some GD goodness to generate the graphic… still tossing around ideas on how that would be performed.

A static threshold for what is “blue-green-yellow-orange-red” or make it all relative… or some kind of both? Thoughts?

topfunky
Minted
Posted on Apr 07, '07 at 03:23 pm

There’s some Javascript and Ruby code here that might be a good starting point: http://blog.corunet.com/english/the-definitive-heatmap

poetics5
Minted
Posted on Sep 27, '07 at 11:16 am

any progress?

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