draw network topology (php/jquery)

Question

I work for the small ISP. We need to draw network topology in our project for network management. I usually have this data:

"cisco" | => "d-link" | => "d-link"

and so on...

So. Using PHP and jQuery how can i draw simple but nice topology picture? Thanks in advance! Appreciate your support.

Answer 1

In PHP, you could call out to Graphviz to make the images. There's probably a PHP wrapper for Graphviz already written out there, but it's pretty easy to call it yourself.

For example, this input file (in example.dot):

digraph example {
    dlink1 [label="d-link"];
    dlink2 [label="d-link"];
    cisco -> dlink1;
    cisco -> dlink2;
}

Can be converted into an image:

$ dot -Tpng -o example.png example.dot

Here's the result: