you want rrdcgi it's great I love it.
it's a cgi script that does exactly what you want (I think) http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/rrdcgi.en.html David On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:17 PM, William R. Lorenz<[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Robert Hagens wrote: > >> I couldn't get php-rrdtool to work, it seems that support has stopped >> for it. I could be wrong. I do all my work in php, and fire up rrdtool >> as a separate process, and pipe commands to/from it from php. > >> frankie wrote: > >>>> Hi all, I want to generate the graph realtime when the web page is >>>> visited by someone similar to cacti . Is php-rrdtool is the only way >>>> to do it? > >>> No. I do it at work with a bash script and rrdtool, but I suspect php >>> or perl would be better as the bash script is not pretty ! See >>> https://lists.oetiker.ch/pipermail/rrd-users/2009-January/015167.html > > > It is also possible to reference a PHP script for an image, i.e.: > > <img src="/rrd-image-script.php" /> > > In the top of that PHP script, you will need to add the following, BEFORE > ANYTHING ELSE, to specify the document is a binary-encoded PNG image: > > <?php > header("Content-Type: image/png\n"); > header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"); > ?> > > At that point, you can just call out to rrdtool to get the image data, > using something akin to <?=system("rrdtool graph - OPTIONS")?> (of course, > please the OPTIONS with your options). The '-' prints to stdout, and thus > returns the image data via the system call to the page for its transfer. > > This is, in my opinion, the easiest method to produce dynamic PHP graphs. > You can also call out to /rrd-image-script.php?name=mygraph¶m1=val1 or > specify other variables that should be passed in on the HTTP GET string, > which will allow you to generate more than one graph from the same script. > > Hope this helps, > > > -- > William R. Lorenz > > _______________________________________________ > rrd-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users > _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users
