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Title: Easy Maintenance CSS/Flash graph
Post by: Travoli on December 06, 2010, 06:39:08 AM
I want to place a dynamic line graph on a webpage.  Low maintenance is key.  I'd love to be able to upload a new .txt or .xls and have the chart update from the data file.  With some quick research, I found a couple ideas (below).  But, there must be a better solution.  Anyone have any recommendations?

1st resource:  Graphs with CSS / PHP  http://www.terrill.ca/design/vertical_bar_graphs/
2nd resource: Open flash chart   http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/
Title: Re: Easy Maintenance CSS/Flash graph
Post by: Gurtie on December 06, 2010, 09:03:49 AM
is this any good? http://code.google.com/p/flot/ it delivers pretty graphs to me in a couple of tools which run from a database, so it doesn't sound a million miles away if you add an upload and an auto refresh
Title: Re: Easy Maintenance CSS/Flash graph
Post by: Travoli on December 06, 2010, 07:02:22 PM
both of those look great, thanks!
Title: Re: Easy Maintenance CSS/Flash graph
Post by: ergophobe on December 07, 2010, 12:18:57 AM
Google Charts has an API. I haven't played with the API, but I have made some charts with static data and it's pretty damn easy. I wouldn't think going dynamic would be that hard.

http://code.google.com/apis/chart/

It's not Flash though.