Graphing / Javascript queston

[toasterpastery]

Hi All. First time posting here. Looks like this is the place to come for PHP info. I am just starting a project where I would like to take some input from the user then do some heavy duty calculations possibly using info from a database then return graphic and non graphic output. The graphs need to be line graphs (not bar).

After some research I think PHP is the way to go. I think I am ready except for the graphics part.....

So from what I understand I have 3 options (or perhaps more if anyone has suggestions)

1) Use PHP with the GD library

2) Do all the calculations in PHP then pass them to some javascript code (a .js file I think) to make the graph output. I looked around on the web for line graph javascript code and there is some stuff but it looks commercial and I'm poor!

3) Other stuff I don't know about

Ok thanks for taking a look

Andy

[stuartc1]

I think your right PHP is probably your best (cheapest) option, it has pretty good graphic manipulation/creation handling and there is plenty of Open Source code for it. Have you looked at the site sourceforge for code to do this ??

If you suddenly are given stacks of money and wish to use another language other than PHP I would advice Cold Fusion as they have a pretty good graphing Server, but it comes with a hefty price tag.

Personally I would choose PHP anyway.

🙂

[TTT]

-->stuartc1 - coldfusion is not "pretty good" graphing server .... <cfgraph> can crash whole server 🙂

cheapest and best result can be done with JSP.