There are some classes that exists, but never none of them as such degree of customization. You can produce all kind of progress meter you want: from basic horizontal bar, vertical bar, to circle, ellipse, and even free polygonal shape.
- create horizontal, vertival bar and also circle, ellipse and polygons (square, rectangle).
- allows usage of existing external StyleSheet and/or JavaScript.
- all elements (progress, cells, labels) are customizable by their html properties.
- percent/labels are floating all around the progress meter.
- compliant with all CSS/XHMTL standards.
- integration with all template engines is very easy.
- implements Observer design pattern. It is possible to add Listeners.
- adds a customizable monitor pattern to display a progress bar. User-end can abort progress at any time.
- allows many progress meter on same page without uses of iframe solution.
- error handling system that support native PEAR_Error, but also PEAR_ErrorStack, and any other system you might want to plug-in.
- PHP 5 ready
Here is a list of samples, to see what kind of render you could have :
Of course this is not limited to this little sample. For a full list of examples (demos) and screenshots (contains in the distribution), please visit my web site at
http://pear.laurent-laville.org/HTML_Progress2/.