php-windows Digest 2 Mar 2011 14:48:57 -0000 Issue 3920
Topics (messages 30521 through 30521):
Re: Dynamic Charting Assistance Requested
30521 by: Tommy Pham
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On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Charles W Buege <cbu...@moreycorp.com> wrote:
> Hello out there -
>
> If anyone can help me, it'll be greatly appreciated!!
>
> I'm working with the pChart (http://www.pchart.net) PHP chart framework
> and think it is a fantastic program/product. I am NOT knocking pChart at
> all - I'm just looking for help from my fellow users out there and trying
> to use pChart in a way that it isn't really designed for/may not be able
> to do.
>
> Here is the project I'm working on: I'm retrieving data from an IBM
> iSeries AS/400 with a DB2 data source back end and I'm getting the data
> fine (MAD props out to ADOdb Database Abstraction Library for PHP -
> http://adodb.sourceforge.net - works like a CHAMP!!!) but I need to create
> some graphs off of said data. Well, pChart works GREAT for the graphs now
> that I understand a bit more about how it created the PNG graphs on the
> fly. Rather, my users have two specific requests for capabilities on
> these charts:
> 1. When they mouse-over the actual data, they want to be able to have a
> fly-over window show up with the exact value of what they are looking at
> (lower priority)
mouse-over = ajax = client side
> 2. When they are moused-over the data, they want the ability to 'drill
> down' into the data by simply clicking on the column/data point/slice of
> pie chart/etc. (MUCH higher priority)
>
mouse-over = ajax = client side
Having to generate an image with the data and use mouse-over certain
area of a dynamic image map sounds too complicated, IMO. I think
you're better of implementing this in Flash. I'm not a Flash
developer but it should be doable in Flash.
Good luck,
Tommy
> My idea with pChart is to find out what the coordinates are for each of
> the points of data on the chart, overlay the image that is generated with
> an image map, and have the image map do the work then allowing them to
> 'click into' the chart, bringing them to either a new page or new chart,
> depending on the page they are on.
>
> So, first off, does anyone have any suggestions of a better/different way
> to do something like this? This is just the idea I've come up with so
> far, so I'm not committed/married to it. I just think that using the
> image map would be the best/fastest way of doing this.
>
> The next question I would pose to everyone out there is if they know of
> any other charting frameworks out there that do this same thing that they
> would recommend. If you have any more detailed questions or I am
> neglecting anything, please feel free to e-mail me at (cbuege at moreycorp
> dot com) or just post a reply to this message.
>
> Now, I'm aware that Google Charts can do this very nicely, but we are
> trying to keep all of the applications in house as the charts that will be
> generated won't always be on machines that will have internet access, so
> we don't want to depend on Google for files external to the company.
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone out there that can help!!
>
> Charles
>
>
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