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recommendations for a PHP library for business graphics?

Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:38 pm
by itp
Great discussion board!

Does anyone have any recommendations for a good PHP library for business graphics - for example bar & pie charts.
Preferably open source. I have been playing with this class, based on GD library at codewalkers.com
which is a good, but limited.

http://www.codewalkers.com/c/a/Content- ... Bar-Chart/
my example... http://tinyurl.com/36fdc4

I would also want to know if is is possible to generate an image and insert it into an HTML page without creating a temporary file
on disk. All examples I have seen either write to disk or display image on its own and not within HTML img tag.
I ask this because some hosting services do not seem to permit a script to generate a file on the server.

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 2:07 am
by jmut

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:11 pm
by itp
thanks jmut!

JPGraph looks great, but I was not able to get it working on client's server. May have to do with how Apache is set up.
I tried PowerGraphic by Carlos Reche. It is not as feature rich and I don't think it is being updated, but is still very powerful and suitable for our needs.

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/1993.html

my examples
http://tinyurl.com/3dl76r

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:30 am
by Kieran Huggins