Re: [ubuntu-uk] FLOSS solution for graphing in PHP

2007-06-22 Thread Mark Harrison
Thanks to all who responded - it looks like Alan's suggestion of gd is probably what I need. rrdtool looked interesting, but the home is pretty much all xAP/xPL stuff, not least because the HomeVision connector was the first GPL application I ever released :-) Time was (about 2002) when I log

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FLOSS solution for graphing in PHP

2007-06-22 Thread Chris Rowson
There's a perl module that makes graphs - I think it's used in the wifidog system I use for wireless auth to create user stats. http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/GDGraph/GD/Graph.html Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FLOSS solution for graphing in PHP

2007-06-22 Thread Alec Wright
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 18:36 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got what I thought would be a simple problem, and google is not > being my friend this afternoon. > > I have a database (MySQL5), and a webserver (Apache), and a programming > language that lets me extract info from one

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FLOSS solution for graphing in PHP

2007-06-22 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Mark, On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 18:36 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: > What I'm after is a free (in both senses) "thing" (library, probably), > that can grab some data, and turn it into a pretty-looking bar graph. I > don't mind particularly how it outputs the graph provided it's something > that c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FLOSS solution for graphing in PHP

2007-06-22 Thread Mark Jose
On Friday 22 June 2007 18:36, Mark Harrison wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got what I thought would be a simple problem, and google is not > being my friend this afternoon. > > I have a database (MySQL5), and a webserver (Apache), and a programming > language that lets me extract info from one and displ

[ubuntu-uk] FLOSS solution for graphing in PHP

2007-06-22 Thread Mark Harrison
Hi all, I've got what I thought would be a simple problem, and google is not being my friend this afternoon. I have a database (MySQL5), and a webserver (Apache), and a programming language that lets me extract info from one and display it with the other (PHP5.) These all run on a nice friendl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FLOSS solution for graphing in PHP

2007-06-22 Thread Alec Wright
I think imagemagick might help, but I'm not sure... On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 18:36 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got what I thought would be a simple problem, and google is not > being my friend this afternoon. > > I have a database (MySQL5), and a webserver (Apache), and a program