Best Graphing library for PHP

Question

All,

I was wondering if you have any suggestions for the best graphing library available for PHP. I plan to accomplish the following things:

1. It should be scalable to support complex graphing plotting.
2. It should support forecasting of data.
3. It should be easy to implement and should be flexible to extend feature set.
4. It should be option rich. (Possibly support 2D/3D graphs).
5. The data will come from MYSQL database. So, DB support should be good.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I would suggest Google Chart API as it doesn't rely on the server, it's flexible (as far as I can tell) and it's quite pretty.

Your second point, as to forecasting data I don't think it depends on the library but in your implementation.

So that's my 2 cents.

Answer 2

Has been asked and answered numerous times. Please see

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/395541/graphs-charts-in-php
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/528263/what-is-the-best-open-source-php-charting-solution
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1156252/free-chart-libraries-for-php
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1935330/php-chart-library-solution

or via Search

• http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=php+chart

Answer 3

Gordon's answer is the most apposite one, however looking at the links provided, there is only one one (short) mention of jpgraph - which IMHO is the most flexible tool available however this flexibility comes at the cost of requiring some time for learning the API. But its very well written and easy to work with.

C.