Let’s face it: in the business world, you’re bound to encounter individuals who just can’t get “the big picture.” At the sight of rows and columns of data, their brains disconnect, their eyes cross, their breathing becomes labored, and they pass out. But wouldn’t it be nice to avoid all that trauma? Imagine if you could help those poor, spreadsheet-phobic souls grasp what the data actually means with a clear and decisive graph.
Let’s face it: in the business world, you’re bound to encounter individuals who just can’t get “the big picture.” At the sight of rows and columns of data, their brains disconnect, their eyes cross, their breathing becomes labored, and they pass out. But wouldn’t it be nice to avoid all that trauma? Imagine if you could help those poor, spreadsheet-phobic souls grasp what the data actually means with a clear and decisive graph.
Well, you’re guaranteed to make friends for life with the JpGraph library for PHP. JpGraph is an exciting, object-oriented graphing library for PHP that’s easy to install and integrate. In no time, your co-workers will be thanking you profusely for adding some style to their otherwise mundane data collating existence.
The Audience
As JpGraph is a PHP class library, it’s best used as an extension to your existing web application.
The package is not intended for heavy graphing, such as plotting thousands upon thousands of data-points, but is perfectly suited for displaying data sets in your web application.
For example, JpGraph is a great solution to picture your user forums’ posting statistics over the last 12 months.
JpGraph is quite powerful and can add a touch of professionalism to your project or product. Here’s a quick look at JpGraph’s feature set:
The average graph size is 2 K, and graphs can be created as JPEG, PNG, and GIF images.
JpGraph can create spider-plots, pie-charts…
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