[Solar-talk] Graphing Data

[Adrian Videnie]

Kilbride, James P. wrote:
>
> Is anybody out there generating graphs of data points using Solar? If 
> so what's your preferred method of doing it? Say for example I want a 
> line graph to show rise in temperature over a given timeperiod and my 
> database stores daily temperatures. getting the data is all 'trivial' 
> what are people using for doing the graph itself?
>
Unless you have something against flash, I would recommend this:

http://www.fusioncharts.com/free/

I have nothing against JS based charts or even php generated graphs via 
GD (which is overkill in my opinion, both for the server and the 
developer), but I always try to use the right tool for the job. And for 
charts, flash is the answer.

There is also a completely open source solution (from what I know):

http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/tutorial.php

but I never used it and does not seem to be as powerful as the first 
solution.

Integration is very simple, you usually generate from PHP an XML file 
which will be loaded by the SWF file to generate the graphs.

Best regards,
Adrian