[UPHPU] PHP Chart Library

[cole at colejoplin.com]

Quoting John David Anderson <uphpu at johndavidanderson.net>:

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> On Sep 18, 2007, at 9:00 AM, cole at colejoplin.com wrote:
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>> I know I will open up a can of worms here, but I don't really care.  
>>  I prefer Flash reports. Reports that are presentational, like pies  
>>  and charts, deserve a presentational delivery. As I've  
>> demonstrated  for the group, PHP and Flash can produced spectacular  
>> results  together.
>>
>> While I understand that free and open source are very important to   
>> many in this group, business demands force me to go for superior   
>> excellence, wherever it may take me. While static graphs are not   
>> bad per se, they simply don't rise to spectacular.
>
> I second that. Flex has some pretty cool charting stuff. I'd check it out.
>
> -- John

Oh, John, don't get me started on Flex! You are so right. The Flash  
player may not be open source, but it is free to use. And with the  
Flex SDK open source, and Adobe pressing into Linux, and new  
components coming out, Flex is going to be making some big splashes.

Have you checked out FlexLib?  
(http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/wiki/ComponentList) It's open source  
components are really cool. They have charting (example at  
http://flexlib.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/examples/HorizontalAxisDataSelector/HorizontalAxisDataSelector_Sample.swf). But as you know, you can encapsulate any existing Flash SWF  
internally.

-- Cole