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 display it with the > other (PHP5.) These all run on a nice friendly thing you may have heard > of called Ubuntu :-) > > > 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 can display within Firefox, so something that could dynamically > build a PNG or a Flash, or whatever really. > > However, Google has let me down - lots of chargeable libraries, but > adding the search term "free" gives me "free trial, $69 to buy" or the > like results. > > > Has anyone any personal recommendations? > > M.
rrdtool - takes a bit of getting the hang of, but will take data e.g temperatures - and output as graphs. Have a look at my brother in laws temperature graphs - http://www.hoagieshouse.com/temperature/ Thats the sort of thing you get - you can of course tweak them a bit too. A cron job gets the data every x seconds and adds the next point to your graph. Mark -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
