[ubuntu-uk] FLOSS solution for graphing in PHP

[Alec Wright]

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 18:36 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got what I thought would be a simple problem, and google is not 
> being my friend this afternoon.
> 
> I have a database (MySQL5), and a webserver (Apache), and a programming 
> language that lets me extract info from one and display it with the 
> other (PHP5.) These all run on a nice friendly thing you may have heard 
> of called Ubuntu :-)
> 
> 
> What I'm after is a free (in both senses) "thing" (library, probably), 
> that can grab some data, and turn it into a pretty-looking bar graph. I 
> don't mind particularly how it outputs the graph provided it's something 
> that can display within Firefox, so something that could dynamically 
> build a PNG or a Flash, or whatever really.
> 
> However, Google has let me down - lots of chargeable libraries, but 
> adding the search term "free" gives me "free trial, $69 to buy" or the 
> like results.
> 
> 
> Has anyone any personal recommendations?
> 
> M.
> 
Well, when I said imagemagick might help earlier, i was being a bit
stupid because its quite low level, and makes images rather than graphs.
But if you want to work at that low level, imagemagick could be what you
need.
-- 
Alec Wright