Tuesday, February 5, 2008

GraPHPite - Open Source PHP Graph

Creating graph in PHP is not so easy. You need to know lots of things, specially image manipulation by php. But there is a very easy solution for creating graph in PHP. It is GraPHPite. It is a free and open source graph rendering utility. Just download this script, place into your web directory and create your graph with the help of tutorial & documentation. You can create several types of graphs with it. You can create layouts with legends, fill using image or can create gradient smooth area. Another important feature of it is you can create multiple plot into a single graph. Types of graphs it can generates are:

  • Line Graph
  • Area Graph
  • Bar Graph
  • Stacked Bar Graph
  • Stacked Area Graph
  • Pie Graph
  • Radar Chart
  • Vector Function Graph
  • Step Chart
  • Impulse Chart
  • Dot Chart
  • Map Chart
  • Logarithmic axis & more...
Requirements
PHP4 or PHP5 with GD 2 support for optimal performance. I think this is very common to most of the servers.

Download
Download the latest version 1.2 from sourceforge.

Documentation
Full documentation is available from the site. Click here to view it.

Samples & Tutorials
Here are few excellent samples available in this link. You will find few good tutorial from here.


I think this graph utility will meet your all kind of needs for creating graph in php. You will also find that, creating graph with it is also a kind of fun. Hope you will like it.

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