Hi Guys,

I seek help and advice from you guys. I need to write an application for my DNS Sinkhole or web front end for administration and nice fancy reporting functionality which comprises of different charts/pie charts

I need to know if there any such open source front end is available already which carries such reporting functionality?

And if not I don't mind write on from scratch but need to know which language can be suggested for such applications?

like Ruby, Java/JSP, TCL/Tk, pyhon etc...

Please help..

TIA

Your question is not very clear.

If you need to write a web front end with good reporting functionality then there are many web frameworks to choose from, or you could roll your own. A quick search for "web framework with pie charts" produces many useful results.

If you want to write a local application then probably the best language is the one you are most familiar with.

The way to approach such a problem would be to write up a simple specification for the application, then choose a platform and language or framework based on that specification and your own skill set and begin development.

Then, when you run into difficulties and have a specific question to resolve, ask for help here in the programming forum.

When asking for such help, please review the guidelines for asking complete questions in the Site FAQ.

Good luck!

Hey there,

Thanks for the feedback and pointing me to the correct direction. Well the idea here for posting a question is; we have DNS Sinkhole built on Debian but thats the complete raw where entire stuff handled using Files and bash scripts which does not have any GUI application.

We are thinking to give a nice GUI to administer it and provide the reporting functionality which could show the graphs of traffic, malicious domains and many such things.

Hence wondering which one to use.

This may or may not address your question, but were it my project I would leverage webmin and build my front-end as a webmin module.

A significant portion of the work is done for you as webmin is already a decent web front end that supports html5 gui features and web delivery of results and reports.

If you're going to write a local application, then I'd suggest using Qt for that in the language you are most comfortable with. In addition to its other benefits, it provides some pie-chart capabilities. If you don't have a language preference, then maybe C++ would be a good choice since so many local, standalone applications use it.