Using Fusion Chart in PHP and rendering in Smarty Templating Engine

Question

My issue is not able to render the chart in .tpl file. The following code is the example taken from Fusion chart document check for reference

<?php
   include("../Includes/FusionCharts.php");

   //Create an XML data document in a string variable
   $strXML  = "";
   $strXML .= "<graph caption='Monthly Unit Sales' xAxisName='Month' yAxisName='Units'
   decimalPrecision='0' formatNumberScale='0'>";
   $strXML .= "<set name='Jan' value='462' color='AFD8F8' />";
   $strXML .= "<set name='Feb' value='857' color='F6BD0F' />";
   $strXML .= "<set name='Mar' value='671' color='8BBA00' />";
   $strXML .= "<set name='Apr' value='494' color='FF8E46' />";
   $strXML .= "<set name='May' value='761' color='008E8E' />";
   $strXML .= "<set name='Jun' value='960' color='D64646' />";
   $strXML .= "<set name='Jul' value='629' color='8E468E' />";
   $strXML .= "<set name='Aug' value='622' color='588526' />";
   $strXML .= "<set name='Sep' value='376' color='B3AA00' />";
   $strXML .= "<set name='Oct' value='494' color='008ED6' />";
   $strXML .= "<set name='Nov' value='761' color='9D080D' />";
   $strXML .= "<set name='Dec' value='960' color='A186BE' />";
   $strXML .= "</graph>";

   //Create the chart - Column 3D Chart with data from strXML variable using dataXML method
   echo renderChartHTML("../../FusionCharts/FCF_Column3D.swf", "", $strXML, "myNext", 600, 300);
?>

It works if i render in normal .php but how to pass the renderChartHTML value to the Smarty tpl so that it will get displayed in a <div>{$chartdata}</div> like this .Would be great if any example to display Fusion chart in smarty tpl.

As of now i am able to get the graph like assigning the $strXML to smarty variable and passing the values directly to embed parameters. Anyone suggest a better way of doing this?

In PHP:

$smarty->assign('strXML', $strXML);

In .tpl :

<embed src="FCF_MSLine.swf" flashVars="&dataXML={$strXML}&chartWidth=900&chartHeight=600" quality="high" width="900" height="600" name="testgraph" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />

Answer 1

$output = renderChartHTML("../../FusionCharts/FCF_Column3D.swf", "", $strXML, "myNext", 600, 300);
$smarty->assign('chartdata', $output);