Thanks Yolanda

This is really useful.  Out of interest can you take data from a google 
spreadsheet and manipulate it.  I wondered whether retrieving the 
information form a google spreadsheet would be better.

On Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:26:35 UTC+1, Yolanda Davis wrote:
>
> Tracy,
>
> I think you can accomplish this all with jQuery and the Google 
> Datatable/DataView.  If you are using a file to store the JSON you can save 
> it as a php file and then use jQuery ajax to read the contents of that php 
> file into a DataTable.  From there you can use the group method in order to 
> do aggregate functions (sum, average, etc).  Finally you can pass that into 
> your column chart.
>
> I hope this helps! Here is the online reference to the group method:  
> https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/reference#google_visualization_data_group
>  
>
> Yolanda
>
> On Monday, August 13, 2012 6:24:42 PM UTC-4, Tracy Ridge wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am just requiring a little advice on how to approach this project.
>> I am going to place all my data in a json file.  The data is a list of 
>> donations categorised by individual, company, school and miscellaneous 
>> donations.
>>
>> I want to make a column chart with the total(sum) of all donations from 
>> each categories and a table with the top 10 donations from the categories 
>> with the names and amount.
>>
>> I would prefer to do this with PHP but if easier will use jQuery and I 
>> would also like to take in consideration any security issues.  Any help 
>> will be gratefully appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Tracy 
>>
>>

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