help: suggestiong on using php to generate graph

Rickster

Hi all, I need to make a website which plots graphs from a database. Manipulations of the graph is required, like scrolling up/down and left/rite, zoom in/out, enable/disable displaying position of points, as well as values, max/min and average of a line graph, etc. I don’t have much experience on website or web tool development and I am thinking of using php, so can anyone give me suggestions on what programming language(s), and methods might be useful on finishing this project? Any help is appreciated.

stolzyboy

if you are thinking of graphing with PHP, i suggest you take a look at phplot: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplot/

the only thing i'm not sure it has "out of the box" is scrolling and zooming... but that can likely be accomplished by using larger/smaller links and sending the graph different sizing depending on the link clicked

Rickster

Thank you for your help. I have a few questions after reading the materials from the link.
a. the website is going to be highly user interactive, many settings and parameters are going to be input by the user, so can php still handle that?

b. the ideal chart/graph I want to use has values on all 4 sides of the graph, pretty much like merging 2 graphs onto one but with the 2nd graph’s x-axis on the right side and the y-axis on the top. So is there any way to modify a graph to suit my design?

stolzyboy

all the code is there for you to use/change/etc... i've not dealt with your number 2. but i don't see any reason why one couldn't implement it...

and yeah, PHP should be able to handle it as long as the webserver can handle it, you can only process as fast as your server regardless what language you are using and PHP is arguably one of or the fastest web language readily in use today