Help with a progress widget please.
 

Hi guys, I'm looking to build a widget either HTML or PHP to display progress.

Let's say I set a target of ?1000. Perhaps I add this to the database or more simply just use a text file on my server. I read the single line of text from the text file which is my current value. I want to display that value as a progress bar.

For example,

progress bar min value = 0
progress bar max value = 1000

Read value from file, EG, 125
Show this value on the progress bar.

Secondly, I want a button that opens an input box where I enter a value, and it adds that value to the value stored in the text file then updates the progress bar.

I've got some PHP code for reading and writing to a text file , but I've not idea where to start with a progress bar and input box.

Here's what I've got so far, simply displaying the value from the file.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
B.

You could of course do what you described. I think the easiest thing would be to add an option in the admincp to set the max and current value, and you wouldn't need to read or write a file (but of course that would mean logging in to the admincp to change the value). As for drawing the bar, I think there are a number of progress bar mods that you could look at, and I'm sure if you googled progress bar you'd find the html for just about any look you wanted. I remember looking at on that was just an image that get's stretched based on the percentage, so it was all done with html.