Google's Chart API

bdm · 12-07-2007, 03:17 PM

Haven't played around with it yet, but it seems fairly flexible. I've seen a few threads about generating charts. So maybe it will become useful to some people. And since you can execute 50,000 queries to their servers daily, there's no telling what kind of cool stuff people could come up with.

http://code.google.com/apis/chart/

Enjoy

aristoworks · 12-07-2007, 03:32 PM

1 step closer to taking over the world.

Wildhoney · 12-07-2007, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by aristoworks

1 step closer to taking over the world.

Lol. Have I started something? Nice graphs, although I would honestly still use my own server's resources and generate them using GD myself.

sjaq · 12-07-2007, 05:50 PM

I wonder if they are saving this data, if so this is kinda scary.

Maybe someone can come up with some kind of class wrapper for this so you don't have to use those crazy urls.

aadhunik · 12-07-2007, 08:24 PM

I love php Open Flash Chart.

Wildhoney · 12-07-2007, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by sjaq

I wonder if they are saving this data, if so this is kinda scary.

Maybe someone can come up with some kind of class wrapper for this so you don't have to use those crazy urls.

It all depends on what information you're giving Google. If you're simply giving them random digits and some equivocal text, then Google can't do a whole lot with that, it's when Google start linking that with the actual purpose of the diagram - by possibly supplying a title to Google such as: "Fiscal diagram for MySite.com from the 14th of Oct to the 14th of Nov".

I could make a nice wrapper class for this, but I'd much prefer to keep all the image processing locally.

CMellor · 12-08-2007, 03:22 PM

This looks pretty cool, thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Salathe · 12-08-2007, 05:08 PM

I got bored last night and wrote a quick wrapper for this API. It means I could write something like the following and get the image back.

php Code:

$aData = array(33, 30, 37, 37, 40, 23, 15, 18, 17, 4);

$pChart = new GoogleChart_Line(200, 100);
$pChart->data($aData);
$pChart->title("My Chart", '333333', '20'); // optional
$pChart->fill_background('ECF0F3'); // optional
$pChart->render();

Which results in:

It's very crude at the moment, so no code releases!

Maybe you can have a stab at writing a similar class too.

maZtah · 12-10-2007, 07:11 PM

I've also written a basic tutorial for this API here.

bdm · 12-10-2007, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by maZtah

I've also written a basic tutorial for this API here.

++ for you.

Haris · 12-11-2007, 03:38 AM

Although, some people might be happy with those 50,000 queries per 24 hour limit but I am never happy with those "Not expandable" limits.

I would love to pay to increase the limits, either to Google or my developer. (I am my own developer

)

bdm · 12-11-2007, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Haris

Although, some people might be happy with those 50,000 queries per 24 hour limit but I am never happy with those "Not expandable" limits.

I would love to pay to increase the limits, either to Google or my developer. (I am my own developer

)

Since this is simply an initial release, I'm sure they will increase the limit.

reborn · 12-21-2007, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Haris

I would love to pay to increase the limits, either to Google or my developer.

Why would you need over 50 000 queries? I would cache the result to save on googles machines.

Rendair · 12-21-2007, 02:15 PM

I still prefer PHP GD to make my graphs, but i must say this does make things easier.