[dba-Tech] So how do you automate imaging?

And it turns out there are lots of scripts/classes out there which take much of the work out of 
it.  http://www.google.com/search?q=php+gd+charting+library (About 44,700 results )

Some interesting links:

pChart
http://pchart.sourceforge.net/

libChart
http://naku.dohcrew.com/libchart/pages/introduction/

and lots more commercial and free one here:
http://www.hotscripts.com/category/php/scripts-programs/graphs-charts/

-- 
Stuart

On 11 Sep 2010 at 9:54, Jim Lawrence wrote:

> Hi Stuart:
> 
> That's awesome. 
> 
> You would not believe how many lines of JavaScript code I have used to
> create graphs for clients. This could make the job almost pleasant.
> :-)
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart
> McLachlan Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 9:32 PM To: Discussion of
> Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] So how do you
> automate imaging?
> 
> On 11 Sep 2010 at 14:06, Stuart McLachlan wrote:
> 
> > A quick look at  http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php shows
> > that it doesn't just manipulate existing images, it lets you create
> > images with text, line, arc etc functions so you could use it to
> > create graphs/charts on the fly in your web page from various data
> > sources.
> > 
> 
> Just tried one of the examples, it's really neat.  
> 
> The entire contents of the file
> http://www.lexacorp.com.pg/imagetest.php  follows, take a look at the
> result.
> 
> -- 
> Stuart
> 
> 
> <?php
> // create image
> $image = imagecreatetruecolor(100, 100);
> // allocate some colors
> $white    = imagecolorallocate($image, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF);
> $gray     = imagecolorallocate($image, 0xC0, 0xC0, 0xC0);
> $darkgray = imagecolorallocate($image, 0x90, 0x90, 0x90);
> $navy     = imagecolorallocate($image, 0x00, 0x00, 0x80);
> $darknavy = imagecolorallocate($image, 0x00, 0x00, 0x50);
> $red      = imagecolorallocate($image, 0xFF, 0x00, 0x00);
> $darkred  = imagecolorallocate($image, 0x90, 0x00, 0x00);
> // make the 3D effect
> for ($i = 60; $i > 50; $i--) {
>    imagefilledarc($image, 50, $i, 100, 50, 0, 45, $darknavy,
>    IMG_ARC_PIE); imagefilledarc($image, 50, $i, 100, 50, 45, 75 ,
>    $darkgray, IMG_ARC_PIE); imagefilledarc($image, 50, $i, 100, 50,
>    75, 360 , $darkred, IMG_ARC_PIE);
> }
> imagefilledarc($image, 50, 50, 100, 50, 0, 45, $navy, IMG_ARC_PIE);
> imagefilledarc($image, 50, 50, 100, 50, 45, 75 , $gray, IMG_ARC_PIE);
> imagefilledarc($image, 50, 50, 100, 50, 75, 360 , $red, IMG_ARC_PIE);
> // flush image header('Content-type: image/png'); imagepng($image);
> imagedestroy($image); ?>
> 
> 
> 
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