Re: Dynamic Charting Assistance Requested

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Charles W Buege <cbuege@moreycorp.com> wrote: > Hello out there - > > If anyone can help me, it'll be greatly appreciated!! > > 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. > > Here is the project I'm working on:  I'm retrieving data from an IBM > iSeries AS/400 with a DB2 data source back end and I'm getting the data > fine (MAD props out to ADOdb Database Abstraction Library for PHP - > http://adodb.sourceforge.net - works like a CHAMP!!!) but I > need to create > some graphs off of said data.  Well, pChart works GREAT for the graphs now > that I understand a bit more about how it created the PNG graphs on the > fly.  Rather, my users have two specific requests for capabilities on > these charts: > 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) mouse-over = ajax = client side > 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) > mouse-over = ajax = client side Having to generate an image with the data and use mouse-over certain area of a dynamic image map sounds too complicated, IMO. I think you're better of implementing this in Flash. I'm not a Flash developer but it should be doable in Flash. Good luck, Tommy > 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. > > 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. > > 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.  If you have any more detailed questions or I am > neglecting anything, please feel free to e-mail me at (cbuege at moreycorp > dot com) or just post a reply to this message. > > Now, I'm aware that Google Charts can do this very nicely, but we are > trying to keep all of the applications in house as the charts that will be > generated won't always be on machines that will have internet access, so > we don't want to depend on Google for files external to the company. > > Thanks in advance to anyone out there that can help!! > > Charles > > > > This e-mail, including attachments, may contain information that is > confidential and/or proprietary, and may only be used by the person to > whom this email is addressed. If the recipient of this e-mail is not the > intended recipient or an authorized agent, the reader is hereby notified > that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail is > prohibited. If this e-mail has been delivered to you in error, please > notify the sender by replying to this message and deleting this e-mail > immediately.