.EPS support for PHP?

[ArchGabriel]

I'm developing an application that should take data from a MySQL
database, plot it as a chart and write in .eps-format.

Does anyone know if there is any I/O-PHP-support for .eps, or any other vector graphic-format(i.e .svg,.ai)

thankful for any help

ArchGabriel

[feldon23]

EPS is just text.

Instead of dumping HTML to the screen, dump a header tag telling the browser "hey, this is EPS" and then echo your EPS file to the browser. You'll probably also want to use Content-Disposition to prompt the person to download the file instead of just dump EPS to the screen.

From the header() example in the PHP manual,

header("Content-type: application/postscript");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=download.eps");

// query your EPS from MySQL into $data

echo $data;

[ArchGabriel]

Hmmm....

I must have been somewhat fuzzy in stating my question.
Your answer didn't really resolve my issue.
I want to dump from the screen to a file.

Maybe something like the GD library to draw a chart on the screen and then, once your satisfied, export it to .EPS.

Are there any?

ArchGabriel

[feldon23]

//prepare $eps_data for writing

$fp = fopen("mygraphic.eps", "w+");
fwrite($fp, $eps_data);
fclose($fp);