Package Overview
HTML_Progress provides 8 main classes to help you use progress bars:
Global classes
HTML_Progress
Main component to graphically display how much of a total task has completed.
See (Using Determinate Progress Bars) for information and an example of using a typical
progress bar. The section Using Indeterminate Mode tells you how to animate a progress
bar to show activity before the task's scope is known.
Data Model class
HTML_Progress_DM
This class handles any mathematical issues arising from assigning faulty values.
User Interface classes
HTML_Common
This class provides methods for html code display and attributes handling.
It is a base class for other HTML classes and can be downloaded at PEAR under
HTML_Common package.
HTML_Progress_UI
This class provides a basic look and feel implementation of a progress bar.
HTML_Progress_Model
This class provides an easy way to set look and feel of a progress bar with
external config file. This class requires another great PEAR package, the
Config package which provides methods
for configuration manipulation.
HTML_Progress_Generator
This class provides an easy way to build and run demo of your own progress bar.
You can also save final PHP and/or CSS source-code.
HTML_Progress_Generator become the next generation of
interactive tools after ProgressMaker (included in HTML_Progress 1.0)
Observers classes
HTML_Progress_Observer
This class implements the observer pattern for watching progress bar activity
and taking actions on exceptional events.
HTML_Progress_Monitor
This class allow an easy way to display progress in a dialog. The user can cancel
the task.
It requires another PEAR package, the
HTML_QuickForm package which
provides methods for creating, validating, processing HTML forms.
HTML_Progress_Uploader
This class provides a GUI interface (with progress bar) to manage files
to upload to a ftp server with your web browser.
