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<td><h2 class="pageHeader">FusionCharts PHP Class API > Creating Stacked Chart </h2></td>
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<td valign="top" class="text"><p>FusionCharts Free v2 offers Stacked Chart – a type of Multi-series chart where multiple datasets are stacked one above the other in each column. Look at the image below; this is how a Stacked Chart looks like:</p></td>
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<td valign="top" class="text"><img src="Images/PHPClassStacked.jpg" width="351" height="276" class="imageBorder" /></td>
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<td valign="top" class="text"> </td>
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<td valign="top" class="highlightBlock" ><p><strong>Before you go further with this page, we recommend you to please see the previous pages "Creating First Chart " & "Creating Multi-series chart" as we start off from concepts explained in that page. </strong></p></td>
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<td valign="top" class="text"><p>The process of generating Stacked chart is same as Multi-series chart. The only difference is here we need to specify a different chart type. Open and modify the Mulit-series chart you have created in the previous page thus:</p></td>
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<p> <span class="codeComment"># Include FusionCharts PHP Class</span><br />
include('../Class/FusionCharts_Gen.php');</p>
<p><span class="codeComment"> # Create <strong>Stacked Column3D</strong> chart object using FusionCharts PHP Class </span><br />
$FC = new FusionCharts("<strong>StackedColumn3D</strong>","350","300"); <br />
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<span class="codeComment"># Set the relative path of the swf file</span><br />
$FC->setSWFPath("../FusionCharts/");</p>
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<td valign="top" class="text"><p>As you can see, we have only chaged the chart type to <span class="codeInline">stackedColumn3D </span>while creating the chart object : </p>
<p><span class="codeInline">$FC = new FusionCharts(<strong>"StackedColumn3D"</strong>,"350","300");</span></p>
<p>This does the trick and you will see that instead of a multiseries chart we render a stacked chart. </p></td>
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<td valign="top" class="text"><p> </p> </td>
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<td valign="top" class="highlightBlock">Please go through <a href="Functions.html">FusionCharts PHP Class API Reference</a> section to know more about the functions used in the above code. </td>
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<td valign="top" class="text">Here comes the output: </td>
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<td valign="top" class="text"><img src="Images/PHPClassStacked.jpg" width="351" height="276" class="imageBorder" /></td>
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