Need a quick chart on your Web site and don’t want to bother with creating it in Excel then exporting the image? Try the Google Chart API instead? Just build a URL, set it as an img source and see your results.
For example here’s the code for a simple pie chart:
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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We’ve actually written a wrapper class for the Google Chart API over here:
We’ve actually written a wrapper class for the Google Chart API over here:
http://www.talkphp.com/showthread.php?t=1704
Very cool. Thanks for pointing this out!