Hi, Jason. I'm developing some really cool line/point and bar graphs. While the Image stuff is definitely quite different, I think you'd really like it once you get into it. Our graphs are generated dynamically from data in a database. I can't show you the graphs because they aren't ready for the public yet, but on the line/point graph we actually have the points as different shapes and stuff - circles, triangles, squares... Once we get the new version of PHP we'll be using styled lines (dot dash dash kinds of things) with a width, so they will be easily copied in to PowerPoint presentations.
It's a lot of work to get it started, because you have to figure out where you're going to want everything to go, but I recommend trying it. Start by drawing some rectangles and filled rectangles and stuff like that. Oh, and when you use ImageTTFText, I recommend that for smaller fonts you use -$fontColor instead of just $fontColor - it comes out clearer. For bigger fonts sometimes the blurry one is better because it's less pixilated. Good luck! If you need anything else, let me know! -Natalie -----Original Message----- From: Jason Soza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 1:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Graphs using PHP Just want to run this by you all to check the feasibility of it. I run a site that deals with cars, people can upload pics of their vehicle and tell everyone else its year, color, 'generation', and where they're located. What I'd like to do is make some graphs on the front page that look like gauges you'd see in a car, i.e. speedometer, tachometer, oil, etc. but these would actually be graphs showing, for instance, how many of the cars on the site are red, or whatever the most popular color is. So if a majority of the cars were red, and red cars made up 57% of the total cars on the site, I'd want a graphic of a speedometer with a needle that would be in a position that represented 57%. How difficult is this? I looked at some of the imagecreate() functions in the manual, but they look like a language all their own and I'd like to know if there's any easier way to do this that I'm overlooking. I'm thinking doing some kind of image overlay is the way to go, but not sure. Any ideas or pointers would be great, links to sample scripts would be excellent. Thanks! Jason Soza -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
