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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>FusionCharts Free Documentation</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="Style.css" type="text/css" /></head> <body> <table width="98%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" align="center"> <tr> <td><h2 class="pageHeader">Using FusionCharts with PHP > Charting Data from Forms </h2></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="text"><p>In this section, we'll show you how to use FusionCharts with PHP to plot data collected in forms. </p> <p>We'll build a simple restaurant sales example, where the user will enter the items sold by a restaurant in a given week. This data will be submitted in a form to the server. We'll acquire this data and plot in on a chart. For the sake of simplicity, we wouldn't do any processing on this data. However, your real life applications might process data before presenting it on the chart. </p> <p><strong>Before you go further with this page, we recommend you to please see the previous section "Basic Examples" as we start off from concepts explained in that page. </strong></p></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="highlightBlock">The code examples contained in this page are present in<span class="codeInline"> Download Package > Code > PHP</span> > <span class="codeInline">FormBased</span> folder. </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="text"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="header">Building the Form </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="text">The form is contained in <span class="codeInline">Default.php</span> and looks as under: </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="text"><img src="Images/Code_Form.gif" class="imageBorder" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="text">It's a very simple form which submits to <span class="codeInline">Chart.php</span>. As such, we wouldn't go into the code of this form. You can directly open the source from download and see it. </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="text"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="header">Requesting the data and Creating the Chart </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="text">The work of requesting the data from submitted form and creating the chart is done in <span class="codeInline">Chart.php</span>, present in the same folder. It contains the following code: </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="codeBlock"><p><?php<br /> <span class="codeComment"> //We've included ../Includes/FusionCharts.php, which contains functions<br /> //to help us easily embed the charts.</span><br /> include("../Includes/FusionCharts.php");<br /> ?><br /> <HTML><br /> <HEAD><br /> <TITLE>FusionCharts - Form Based Data Charting Example</TITLE><br /> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript" SRC="../../FusionCharts/FusionCharts.js"></SCRIPT><br /> </HEAD><br /> <BODY><br /> <?php <br /> <br /> <span class="codeComment">//We first request the data from the form (Default.php)</span><br /> $intSoups = $_POST['Soups'];<br /> $intSalads = $_POST['Salads'];<br /> $intSandwiches = $_POST['Sandwiches'];<br /> $intBeverages = $_POST['Beverages'];<br /> $intDesserts = $_POST['Desserts'];<br /> <br /> <span class="codeComment">//Now that we've the data in variables, we need to convert this into XML.<br /> //The simplest method to convert data into XML is using string concatenation. </span><br /> <br /> <span class="codeComment">//Initialize <graph> element</span><br /> $strXML = "<graph caption='Sales by Product Category' subCaption='For this week' showPercentValues='1' pieSliceDepth='25' showNames='1' decimalPrecision='0' >";<br /> <span class="codeComment"> //Add all data</span><br /> $strXML .= "<set name='Soups' value='" . $intSoups . "' />";<br /> $strXML .= "<set name='Salads' value='" . $intSalads . "' />";<br /> $strXML .= "<set name='Sandwiches' value='" . $intSandwiches . "' />";<br /> $strXML .= "<set name='Beverages' value='" . $intBeverages . "' />";<br /> $strXML .= "<set name='Desserts' value='" . $intDesserts . "' />";<br /> <span class="codeComment"> //Close <graph> element</span><br /> $strXML .= "</graph>";<br /> <br /> <span class="codeComment"> 'Create the chart - Pie 3D Chart with data from $strXML</span><br /> echo renderChart("../../FusionCharts/FCF_Pie3D.swf", "", $strXML, "Sales", 600, 350);<br /> ?></p> <p></BODY><br /> </HTML></p></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="text"><p>As you can see in the above code, we're doing the following:</p> <ul> <li>Including <span class="codeInline">FusionCharts.js</span> and<span class="codeInline"> FusionCharts.php</span> in this page. </li> <li>Requesting data from the submitted form and storing it in local variables</li> <li>Creating an XML data document using string concatenation and storing it in <span class="codeInline">strXML</span> variable </li> <li>Creating a Pie 3D chart using <span class="codeInline">renderChart()</span> function and passing <span class="codeInline">strXML</span> as <span class="codeInline">dataXML</span> for the chart. </li> </ul> <p>When you finally run the code, you'll see a chart as under: </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="text"><img src="Images/Code_FormChart.jpg" class="imageBorder" /></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>