Actually, I disagree completely. I think this is one of the best APIs I have seen. And the documentation is better than most. If you are having problems understanding a particular part of the API, you should post specific questions.
I am currently implementing my own data source for serving data to a visualization from a SQL database and it is simpler than I would have thought. However, I'm coming from a Java background, and I'm not familiar with PHP so maybe its a "cultural" thing... If you are familiar with using J2EE webapps (war), its very easy to put a servlet stack that will serve your data from any SQL table. Not sure how you would do this from other web app containers. If you are having trouble understanding how the Visualization API works, I suggest you start serving a JSON dataTable directly to your visualization, before you start messing with the Data Source API. On Jun 23, 12:52 pm, kyle Hailey <[email protected]> wrote: > Considering how quickly people give up with things I consider simple, I'm > impressed by what people are doing with the Google API. > > I think the docs are a bit obscure but I generally feel that way about docs. > Luckily there is the example show case where I can take working code and > tweak it. > > Given that this is a free service and you tend to get what you pay for, I > think this pretty dang cool. > > I do wonder what the revenue model is here. > and considering much of this will never be used by many companies since it > can't be hosted outside of google, I wonder if they will sell a version that > can be hosted locally. > > Kyle Haileyhttp://sites.google.com/site/youvisualize/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Visualization API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
