Google Chart Helper 0.1

Jobba the Site is coming along great and is getting closer and closer to being done.

As I am sure you know, Google recently released a chart api, but it is a bit of a pain to generate all of the numbers and put them in the image uri so that Google can generate the charts for you. That is why I created the google_chart_helper for Code Igniter. So far it is pretty beta, and only does one chart type, the pie chart, but I figured I would put it up here to see if anyone has a better way of doing it (or some cool tips that I don’t know about).

Here is how it works:

$chart = new google_chart();
$chart_data = array(2,3,4);
$chart_labels = array(two, three, four);
$width = 500;
$threedee = false;
$colourful = true;
$chart->pie_chart($chart_data, $chart_labels,
$width, $threedee, $colourful);

and the result will be something like:

This was generated a while ago, and I saved it, but generally, Google will create a new chart for you every time you ask for one.

Here is the php file:

my_google_chart_helper

Have fun!

Edit
Here is the file as a txt so you can look at it (or what ever)

This entry was posted on Saturday, April 19th, 2008 at 6:06 pm and is filed under Code Igniter, PHP, Programming . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “Google Chart Helper 0.1”

  • gavin Says:
    April 19th, 2008 at 6:59 pm

    sweet! i’m going to check that out for my store software.

    p.s. you need to update your rss feed for our site, we’re no longer in /wordpress :)

  • gavin Says:
    April 24th, 2008 at 2:34 pm

    ok i want it, but the link links to a PHP file, so i can’t see the code. maybe you should link to a .php.txt?

  • SeanJA Says:
    April 24th, 2008 at 8:56 pm

    I was assuming that people would just right-click and save-as… but ok… since you don’t have a right mouse button… ;)

  • gavin Says:
    April 24th, 2008 at 11:30 pm

    no, it doesn’t work. it’s a php file. you can’t just save php files lol, it would be a huge security problem

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