I wrote this a long time ago. To be honest it isn't very good code and I think I got the ideas from someone else.
Regardless it should give you an idea.
You basically pass in an array of dollar amounts and it outputs a bar graph.
You can also manually adjust the scale of the graph by varying the values $minval and $maxval.
The function "bar" makes a single bar of the graph.
Use it at your own risk though. It is pretty poor PHP but it did the trick for me!
------------------------------------------------------------------------ //graph looks best when values are between 50 and 250 function bargraph ($bararray, $xminval, $xmaxval){
function bar($height,$val, $minval, $maxval){ $n_bars=count($bararray); $newmargin = $maxval - $minval; $newdifference = $height - $minval; $newchange = $newdifference / $newmargin; $newheight = 200 * $newchange + 25; echo ("<td valign=bottom>" . "<table bgcolor=#aa2222 height=" . $newheight . " cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>"); echo("<tr><td align=center valign=bottom>"); echo ("<font color=#00000 size=-1 >"); echo ("$"); printf("%.2f", $val); echo ("</font>"); echo ("</td></tr></table></td>"); }
$n_bars=count($bararray); $border=0; echo("<table bgcolor=#a0a0a0 height=200 width=" . $n_bars*$width . " border=" . $border . " >");
if (!$xminval) $minval= min ($bararray); else $minval = $xminval;
if (!$xmaxval)$maxval= max ($bararray); else $maxval = $xmaxval;
for ($x = 0; $x<count($bararray); $x++){ bar($bararray[$x], $bararray[$x], $minval, $maxval); }
echo("</table>"); } --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Matt
John W. Holmes wrote:
From: "Craig Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I am looking for an open source and simple PHP script that will graph
(bar) a few MySQL fields. Does anyone have any recommendations?
The easiest way is to just have an image that you dynamically vary with width of
<img src="dot.jpg" height="10" width="$width">
Or take a look at JPGraph, which offers a lot of features.
---John Holmes...