Thanks Mike. Will wait :-) On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 5:47:42 AM UTC-7, Michael Brown wrote: > > I am trying to use MySQL as a data source for Gauge, but it's not working > yet. > > All of the examples I see have the Javascript in your Chart web page call > a PHP script on the database server. The PHP accesses the MySQL database > and formats the return data as JSON. The Javascript then feeds the JSON to > the Google chart API. It's too bad that Google didn't include direct SQL > handling in the Chart API. > > While the Google documentation shows the expected format of the JSON data > with row and col definitions, whatever I feed to the gauge causes it to not > display *anything*, the gauge just vanishes on the page. And there is no > error code or message being returned by the gauge, so I have no idea what > is wrong, short of trying dozens of slightly different formats. > > This is my general frustration with anything from Google, and I've done a > LOT of Android coding for my own needs. They provide a powerful and useful > system, but it's unnecessarily difficult to program to, and it's not > documented well enough to show examples for all use cases and error > handling is non-existent. And then they deprecate it a few years later and > you're screwed. > > When I get it working I'll come back and paste in the relevant code. > > -- > > Mike Brown > > "Driving a gasoline sports car is going to feel like a steam engine with a > side of quiche." Elon Musk > > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 6:50 PM Shivakumar Chandrashekar <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Friends, I am newbie for this. Just wanted to know if anyone used excel >> (preferably) or MySQL as data source and used this API. If yes, could you >> please share how to use ? any challenges faced ? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google Visualization API" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-visualization-api/b9cffd23-1f20-4dfe-b0b2-6c0f2988a44d%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-visualization-api/b9cffd23-1f20-4dfe-b0b2-6c0f2988a44d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >
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