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JavaScript charts in PHP using FusionCharts XT – Part 1

by Hrishikesh Choudhari on March 15, 2012 · 0 comments

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PHP developers often build applications that work on a diverse data spectrum like sales, marketing, finance, health care or government and beyond. For the end-users of such applications to be able to make sense and take the right actions, it is necessary to represent data in the right form as dashboards or reports. Dashboards, which are an inter-connected collection of charts, gauges and grids facilitate inference, insight and actions – the most critical aspects of any enterprise.

Many charting components are available for use in your PHP apps. While most of these are server side components that generate static images of charts and gauges, without any interactivity, a few are client-side solutions that use JavaScript or Flash to generate interactive charts, gauges and grids. Enter FusionCharts Suite, the industry’s leading enterprise-grade JavaScript charting solution. For PHP developers who wouldn’t want to dabble in JavaScript, it also provides server-side libraries which enable them to create delightful charts in JavaScript. These libraries help in connecting to data sources, producing the chart data, and generating the required HTML and JavaScript code, which can be easily embedded in any web page.
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How to create a Pareto chart?

by Sanket Nadhani on August 25, 2009 · 1 comment

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Differentiating the important from the not-so important is a very vital task for any management. In this post, we will see how a Pareto chart is a vital tool for the same, and how it can be easily created using the Dual-Y Combination chart in FusionCharts v3.

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Less litter, more letters using tooltips

July 15, 2009 Tutorials
Less litter, more letters using tooltips

While discussing a chart during a presentation, you’d probably have to talk at length about each plotted value. The lengthy discussions become particularly unavoidable if you have to cite reasons for declining sales or for an extended period of stagnation. In situations such as this, tooltips come in handy since you can easily display a lot of text on them.

FusionCharts v3.1 allows you to introduce line…

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Read between the plots

July 13, 2009 Tutorials
Read between the plots

You've successfully completed the first six months at your new job as a marketing specialist and the time has come to reveal how you leveraged your ideas for the benefit of the company. So, you make a Revenue chart and tell yourself: “These high-rise things are my contribution.” But you can't tell this to your superiors without seeming boastful.

So what do you do? Simple – just make your…

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Chart data is not just one-way traffic

July 6, 2009 Tutorials
Chart data is not just one-way traffic

Picture this: You are making a sales dashboard to be presented to the upper management of the company. During the presentation, your CFO asks you to pick out the raw data from a particular chart. At that moment, you cannot go back to the underlying database and give him the exact figures, can you? Nor can you afford to waste screen estate on dashboards by displaying tables right below the…

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Custom string labels (annotations) for data sets

May 10, 2009 Tutorials
Custom string labels (annotations) for data sets

Continuing with the series on how to get the most out of the new features of FusionCharts v3.1, here’s our latest – custom string labels (annotations) for individual data sets. In case you tuned into the series just now, here’s what we have already covered: 

Branding your Charts
Exporting your Charts as

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