Re: Dynamic Charting Assistance Requested [message #172795 is a reply to message #172788] |
Wed, 02 March 2011 19:09 |
Chuck Anderson
Messages: 63 Registered: September 2010
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Charles wrote:
> Hello out there -
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> If anyone can help me, it'll be greatly appreciated!!
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> I'm working with the pChart (http://www.pchart.net) PHP chart framework and think it is a fantastic program/product. I am NOT knocking pChart at all - I'm just looking for help from my
> fellow users out there and trying to use pChart in a way that it isn't really designed for/may not be able to do.
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> 1. When they mouse-over the actual data, they want to be able to have a fly-over window show up with the exact value of what they are looking at (lower priority)
> 2. When they are moused-over the data, they want the ability to 'drill down' into the data by simply clicking on the column/data point/slice of pie chart/etc. (MUCH higher priority)
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> My idea with pChart is to find out what the coordinates are for each of the points of data on the chart, overlay the image that is generated with an image map, and have the image map do
> the work then allowing them to 'click into' the chart, bringing them to either a new page or new chart, depending on the page they are on.
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> So, first off, does anyone have any suggestions of a better/different way to do something like this? This is just the idea I've come up with so far, so I'm not committed/married to it.
> I just think that using the image map would be the best/fastest way of doing this.
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> The next question I would pose to everyone out there is if they know of any other charting frameworks out there that do this same thing that they would recommend.
I have done something very similar with jpgraph. The ability to make
image maps is built-in and well documented.
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