PHPlot


PHPlot is a graphing library for PHP. It was originally developed by Afan Ottenheimer, and later thoroughly revised and expanded by myself, Miguel de Benito. During the years that the project was actively being developed, many features were implemented: it can graph pie, bar, linear, stacked and dotted charts with any number of data. It supports True Type fonts, legends, advanced tick labels, picture backgrounds. The list is long…

Afan’s original idea was to make it easy to plug data directly from a database into it, and it has proven a great one. The code to render a live graph built from a relational database is short and straightforward, even more so thanks to the innestimable help of L. J. Bayuk, who not only submitted and fixed bugs to the bug tracker hosted on sourceforge, but who also wrote a very complete manual, full with step-by-step examples and the whole API.

Alas, time is a scarce resource and it has been long since I last worked on PHPlot. Nevertheless, although quiet, the user community still keeps the project alive and emails and posts keep arriving. So, if you need a working, stable graphics library for PHP, PHPlot and the posts here might be of use to you.

Good news for PHPlot

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

To anyone currently using it, it is quite obvious that development on PHPlot was almost frozen. It’s almost been two years since my last CVS commit and during the last 21 months Afan only found time to do some. The only work was done by L.J. Bayuk, of whom I already talked here when he submitted me a great and very complete user manual. During all this time he has helped at the forums, sent bug reports and fixed them; but last 8th of November, Bayuk was added to the project developers assuming the maintainter role, and what an activity! 10 commits, 7 fixed bugs and release 5.0.rc3 ready in 5 days.

Looks like there’s good stuff coming!

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PHPlot documentation (again)

Sunday, September 25th, 2005

I really don’t know why I haven’t uploaded this before, but here is the current documentation of PHPlot, the PHP graphing library I maintain. Well, at least I used to, because I don’t really have the time any more…

Together with the standard documentation it you will find the latest manual that the kind L. Bayuk wrote for all of us, and which the unforgivable maintainer (me) has not yet released with PHPlot…

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PHPlot documentation, at last!

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005

Today is a great day for PHPlot. Although development has been quite slow for quite a while now, a new user, L. J. Bayuk, kindly offered himself to write some documentation some time ago (January, 9th).

As the project desperately needed it, I was eager to see what came out, and to my joy it was a very, very nice documentation which thoroughly covers everything PHPlot, from the first steps to a full API reference. Today I received it and I must say it looks perfect, so I’ll try to package a new release as soon as possible.

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