Re: Image_Graph problems

On 4/27/06, Frank Høvin <frank@neuni.com> wrote: > Ok, I know this is still in beta, but it obviously seems to work for others. > > > > I'm trying the examples at > http://pear.veggerby.dk/samples/, since there are > no documentation at the PEAR site. > There are always API docs as well and while they might not be as user friendly, they still work for finding what you need. > I get them to work, sort of – after discovering that having html code before > the code making the graphs garbles them – Of course. You can't output a binary file in the middle of your image. Your image creation has to happen in a seperate request from your normal page (or you have to create it, store it on the filesystem instead of outputting it, then output an image tag for it). > > except that I can't get the titles and labels to show on the graphs. I've > been playing around with the simple bar chart, > > but even though I use the exact same code as the examples, no text is > showing. That is, the title and labels are blank > > when I run the code, but when I run the examples from the veggerby site, > they are showing. > First thing to try is to set error_reporting to E_ALL (E_ALL &~E_STRICT if you're using PHP5). See if any errors pop up. Second, perhaps you're missing some fonts that the package needs. > > > F.ex: This line > > > > $Plot =& $Plotarea->addNew('bar', array(&$Dataset)); > > > > should display the title "bar" under the chart. But it doesen't. And the > same goes with all the other examples when I > > run them myself – titles, labels etc. are all blank. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > "One of the major reasons for the fall of the Roman empire was that, lacking > the number zero, they had no way to effectively terminate their C programs." > > > > > -- Justin Patrin