Creating Cool Charts in PHP Chart Js Php Wrapper

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Using PHP and FusionCharts to create cool live charts in your web applications.

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No matter how many server side languages come up, there is nothing that can replace PHP. At least not in the near future. PHP still forms the backbone of many of the most famous web applications.

If you are a backend developer and PHP is part of your tech stack, you will find this tutorial useful. In this I will go over the step-by-step process of creating beautiful charts using

Since you need to have the data before you start planning to visualize it, I am calling this step as step-0 instead of step-1.

FusionCharts understands both XML and JSON data formats, but we will be using only JSON for this tutorial. We will start our tutorial by converting below data into JSON key-value pair recognized by FusionCharts.

[{"label": "Oct", "value": "490000"},{"label": "Nov", "value": "900000"},{"label": "Dec", "value": "730000"}]

We are going to plot a bar chart using above data and the formatting we did above is good enough for it. It might be a little complex for other chart types.

In this step we will include FusionCharts' core JavaScript library and its

using FusionCharts' PHP Wrapper class. Syntax for creating chart object is as below:

$objectName = new FusionCharts("chart type","unique chart ID","Chart Width","Chart Height","HTML Element for Chart","Chart Data Format","Data Source");

Here's the chart object for the chart we are making in this tutorial:

$coolChart = new FusionCharts("bar2d", "myCoolPHPChart", "100%", "600", "barchart-container", "json", '{"chart": {"caption": "Monthly revenue for Q4 - 2015","xAxisName": "Month",//Other Chart Options},"data": [{"label": "Oct", Chart Js Php Wrapper

“Data Source” mentioned in the above syntax contains 2 objects:

: It includes various attributes responsible for chart interactivity and cosmetics. Some of them are explained as below:

: (Boolean) It is used to enable or disable hover effect in chart.

: (Hex Code/ Color Name) It is used to define plot color on mouseover.

: (Int) It is used to define transparency of hover color.

: (String) It is used to define font family for the chart.

: (Int) It is used to set font size across the chart.

: (Hex Code/ Color Name) It is used to set font color across the chart.

: It includes labels and their corresponding values for each data plot. Other attributes that can be added inside data object are:

: (String) It allows you to set custom string value for particular data plot.

: (string) It allows you to take a chart's functionality to next level by linking data plot to a webpage, drill-down chart or a custom JavaScript function.

: (Boolean) It is used to enable or disable label display for particular data plot (bar).

There are tons of customization options available that can be used based on your particular use case. You can explore this

element where chart will be rendered. Here is how we do it:

Cool Chart on its way!

To render the chart we will call render method for our chart object created in above step.

If you followed everything I mentioned above properly, you should have a working chart with you. If you are seeing any errors in your code, please refer to this

for full source code for the project we just made.

In this tutorial, we passed JSON for chart directly inside chart object but there are other ways of loading data as well. You can refer to

PHP and MySQL are considered as one of the best combinations out there for server-side language and a database, and are currently being used in many popular web applications. To learn more about their usage see

this tutorial on creating drill-down charts charts using PHP with data from MySQL database

I will be active in the comments section, so feel free to post any questions you might have about this tutorial. More than happy to help!

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