Re: Newbie just starting on charting with PHP - and seeking advice on options/approaches - Mailing list pgsql-novice
From | Greg Cocks |
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Subject | Re: Newbie just starting on charting with PHP - and seeking advice on options/approaches |
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Msg-id | 66F6CF82BF58CE4DB4285BE816B297E840E538@tribble.SMStoller.com Whole thread Raw |
In response to | Re: Newbie just starting on charting with PHP - and seeking advice on options/approaches (Isaac Vetter <ivetter@math.purdue.edu>) |
List | pgsql-novice |
Issac, Thanks... sorry for the delay in replying... I like this application... very neat... I think though that I might be stretching the non-technical users (who are often the senior staff) to get Flash installedand the security opened up, etc... I have been looking at JpGraph... and Google's API... and I tried PHPlot off SourceForge, true 'roll your own' as someonesaid... I like "free" but the canned functionality of JpGraph at a cost of a less than two hours of my charge-out time to the projectis tempting - especially as the pro version has Windrose capabilities on the fly (which we would use), something hardto find even in a non-web setting! Hmmm... so many choices, and as you know once I have started investing in one solution I will be lax to switch to another! :-) Regards, GREG COCKS Gcocks|at|stoller.com -----Original Message----- From: Isaac Vetter [mailto:ivetter@math.purdue.edu] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 3:08 PM To: Greg Cocks Cc: PostgreSQL List - Novice Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Newbie just starting on charting with PHP - and seeking advice on options/approaches Hi Greg; This is really a php/web thing and not a postgresql/db thing. I recently started using Yahoo's Charts Control project for some web data visualization. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/charts/index.html It uses Flash which has it's upside (no image manipulation, PHP/GD integration, simpler) and its downside (requires users to have Flash). I haven't looked at Mike's suggestion, but considering that both Yahoo and Google offer liberally sourced libraries for data visualization on the web, is the for-pay product really superior? Isaac Vetter Greg Cocks wrote: > *Hello*, > > > > I am looking at options to chart dynamic data held in the PostgreSQL > database pushed out to the web 'pages' via PHP, time series data in a > scientific setting such as groundwater levels from a transducer... > > > > *I was seeking any input anyone might care to offer...* > > > > _Initial searching found these_: > > > > * http://www.maani.us/charts/index.php (with newbie tutorial I found > at http://www.developer.com/lang/php/article.php/3714046 ) > > > > * http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/chart/chart-manual.php > > > > * http://www.amcharts.com/ > > > > * http://naku.dohcrew.com/libchart/pages/introduction/ > > > > * http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ (simple example explained here > à http://james.cridland.net/code/google-chart.html ) > > > > * Or any other thoughts?? > > > > (I guess I could maybe pull together US$100 for licence if needed...) > > > > I don't need anything fancy, as the technical data analysis will be done > inside the network with ODBC, etc... this is more for the less-technical > web page user to see the data graphically... (much like they can see it > spatially via MapServer...) > > > > *Thanks in advance!* > > > > > > ---------- > Regards, > **/GREG COCKS/**/ > /GIS Analyst V > gcocks|at|stoller.com <blocked::mailto:gcocks@stoller.com> > S. M. Stoller Corp > 105 Technology Drive, Suite 190 > Broomfield, CO 80021 > www.stoller.com <blocked::http://www.stoller.com/> > 303-546-4300 > 303-443-1408 fax > 303-546-4422 direct > 303-828-7576 cell > > >
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