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Adding charts to websites
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 2:00 pm
by Bill H
I just came across this little utility for adding charts to websites. Inexpensive, really easy to use, and it creates very nice charts in a pretty awesome variety. If you need to use charts...
http://www.maani.us/xml_charts/index.ph ... troduction
Re: Adding charts to websites
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 2:17 pm
by alex.barylski
While they are alright I contacted the author several times in the past about commercial licenses and never heard anything back.
Google has a charting tool but by far the best I've found thus far:
http://www.amcharts.com/
Re: Adding charts to websites
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 3:02 pm
by onion2k
Google Charts are best because they're images so they work everywhere, and they're free.
Re: Adding charts to websites
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 3:59 pm
by Bill H
Where were you guys when I was posting on two different forums asking if anyone knew where I could find a charting utility? After several months of searching, I find one I like and you tell me after an hour that I'm using junk and could have done a lot better. Thanks.
Re: Adding charts to websites
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 4:09 pm
by matthijs
There are a couple of good solutions for charts, I've been researching them as well. Pure CSS (quite nice, that's what I'm going to use), Flash and Javascript. I'll look them up tomorrow and post them
Re: Adding charts to websites
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 4:50 pm
by onion2k
We mustn't forget JPGraph either, what with this being a PHP forum.
Re: Adding charts to websites
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:58 pm
by matthijs
Today I came across this new project
http://pchart.sourceforge.net/index.php
Others
http://code.google.com/p/flot/
I had a few others, but can't find them right now
There was an article on Alistapart about CSS graphs recently. I think the advantage of using css is that it's fast and customizable. The drawback might be that you don't have much interactive possibilities as you could have with flash or js
Re: Adding charts to websites
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:06 am
by onion2k
I was looking at Flot last night. Aside from a couple of cases where lines weren't drawn I was really impressed. I'm going to have a look at pchart today.
Re: Adding charts to websites
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:27 am
by JayBird
Re: Adding charts to websites
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:29 am
by matthijs
So what do you guys think. If you compare the different solutions, Flash, javascript, PHP or CSS. And if you'd use it on an app with many graphs per page. Wouldn't either plain html/css graphs or cached images generated by php be the most lightweight options?
I have little experience with Flash, but the only thing I know is that Firefox (even 3) still almost chokes on flash stuff. And in general (with other browsers as well) loading flash is slow, even with a fast broadband connection.
Re: Adding charts to websites
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 7:11 am
by m3mn0n
I've been a fan of maani's chart system for a few years now. It's amazing.