Yes, you can fetch data from a Google spreadsheet, and once it's in the 
client's browser, you can do anything you like with it.  I don't think you 
will want that, though, as the spreadsheet has to be made public in order 
to query it.

On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:27:54 AM UTC-4, Tracy Ridge wrote:
>
> Thanks Yolanda
>
> This is really useful.  Out of interest can you take data from a google 
> spreadsheet and manipulate it.  I wondered whether retrieving the 
> information form a google spreadsheet would be better.
>
> On Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:26:35 UTC+1, Yolanda Davis wrote:
>>
>> Tracy,
>>
>> I think you can accomplish this all with jQuery and the Google 
>> Datatable/DataView.  If you are using a file to store the JSON you can save 
>> it as a php file and then use jQuery ajax to read the contents of that php 
>> file into a DataTable.  From there you can use the group method in order to 
>> do aggregate functions (sum, average, etc).  Finally you can pass that into 
>> your column chart.
>>
>> I hope this helps! Here is the online reference to the group method:  
>> https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/reference#google_visualization_data_group
>>  
>>
>> Yolanda
>>
>> On Monday, August 13, 2012 6:24:42 PM UTC-4, Tracy Ridge wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am just requiring a little advice on how to approach this project.
>>> I am going to place all my data in a json file.  The data is a list of 
>>> donations categorised by individual, company, school and miscellaneous 
>>> donations.
>>>
>>> I want to make a column chart with the total(sum) of all donations from 
>>> each categories and a table with the top 10 donations from the categories 
>>> with the names and amount.
>>>
>>> I would prefer to do this with PHP but if easier will use jQuery and I 
>>> would also like to take in consideration any security issues.  Any help 
>>> will be gratefully appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
>>> Tracy 
>>>
>>>

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