The GD library (which is currently built in to PHP) is able to generate such graphs, but it does not have any specific features for that. See http://www.php.net/gd for information on these functions.
As for the data to import, I would think you could be more flexable than MySQL. But that's up to you.
On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 13:40:51 -0600, =James Birkholz= j.birchwood@verizon.net wrote:
What would be the best approach to auto display data as simple graph images? For example, "population over time" (in years).
I assume the data would need to be in a mySQL table. Is the best solution to use an extension and then use php to generate the table? If so, does the standard php graphics addon provide the tools? (?Graphix? Magix?) If so, anyone have a link bookmarked for documentation?
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