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gVis Google Visualization
[b]Introduction[/b] Hello all, so I have been working with Google Visualizations quite a bit in a number of different projects. Before I was running loops that just sent the data to the page and did the rest with javascript. Yesterday I finally started writing a library that would handle all of the javascript and options for google visualization and worked as easily as the CI table library. I call it gVis.
Usage By no means is this library complete, but it does provide a good framework of quickly creating a google visualization chart.
For more information on Google Visualization: [url]http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/index.html[/url]
Add the Google AJAX Library to the header of your page: [code] <head> [removed][removed] </head> [/code]
Next call the class: [code]$this->load->library('gvis'); [/code]
Choose your visualization. The available visualizations so far are: -AnnotatedTimeLine -ImageAreaChart -AreaChart -ImageBarChart -ColumnChart -Guage -GeoMap -IntensityMap -ImageLineChart -LineChart -Map -MotionChart -PieChart -ScatterChart -Table
[i]Please note some of the visualizations require special parameters. Example: GepMap requires country names or abbreviations.[/i]
[code]$this->gvis->set_visualization('ColumnChart'); [/code]
Set your column headers. First parameter is the column type, second parameter is column title. Available Column types: -string -date -number
[code] $this->gvis->set_header('date', 'Sent Date'); $this->gvis->set_header('number', 'Surveys Sent'); [/code]
Add your data: [code] $this->gvis->add_row('1/20/2010', 26); $this->gvis->add_row('1/21/2010', 36); $this->gvis->add_row('1/22/2010', 85); $this->gvis->add_row('1/23/2010', 13); $this->gvis->add_row('1/24/2010', 74); $this->gvis->add_row('1/25/2010', 24); $this->gvis->add_row('1/26/2010', 56); [/code]
Generate your visualization: [code] $googleVisualization = $this->gvis->generate(); [/code]
There are also optional parameters to be set: [code] $this->gvis->set_height(number); $this->gvis->set_width(numer); $this->gvis->set_title('string'); $this->gvis->set_is3D(boolean); $this->gvis->set_legend(string) // top, bottom, left, right, none [/code]
There is still lots to be done on this. I would like to add more validation for the different visualizations, and add more optional parameters.
To be done: -Accept arrays, and objects with set_header() -Additonal Optional Parameters to set -Multiple Visualizations on one page -Set Parameters with an array
Thanks for looking! Tips, comments and criticism always accepted!