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drawPlotChart - Draw a plot chart

This function allows you to draw a plot chart. All the drawing parameters are given trough a $Format array. To learn more about this please read the Format array guide.

Calling this function
drawPlotChart($Format="");
Where :

Format is an array containing the drawing parameters of the chart.


Customisation array - Tune up your chart!

It is possible to customize the plot chart rendering by playing with this array. Providing a detailled configuration is not mandatory, by default the bar will be drawn with a width of 200px, a height of 20px and basic color sets.

You can specify the size of the plot with PlotSize.
You can draw a border around the plot setting PlotBorder to TRUE or FALSE.
You can set the plot border color with BorderR, BorderG, BorderB.
You can set the plot border alpha with BorderAlpha.
You can set the width of the border with BorderSize.
You can use the Surrounding option to define the border color. This value will be added to the R, G, B factors to define the new color.
You can specify if the values must be written on the chart setting DisplayValues to TRUE or FALSE.
You can specify the text UP/RIGHT offset with DisplayOffset.
You can enable image map recording by setting RecordImageMap to TRUE.
You can specify the labels color with DisplayR,DisplayG,DisplayB.

You can define if the labels color will be the same than the serie color of if you want to force it manually setting DisplayColor to :

DISPLAY_MANUAL, color will be specified manually with DisplayR,DisplayG,DisplayB.
DISPLAY_AUTO, will use the serie color.

Sample script #1


 /* Build a dataset */
 $MyData = new pData();  
 $MyData->addPoints(array(-4,VOID,VOID,12,8,3),"Probe 1");
 $MyData->addPoints(array(3,12,15,8,5,-5),"Probe 2");
 $MyData->addPoints(array(2,7,5,18,19,22),"Probe 3");
 $MyData->setAxisName(0,"Temperatures");
 $MyData->addPoints(array("Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun"),"Labels");
 $MyData->setSerieDescription("Labels","Months");
 $MyData->setAbscissa("Labels");

 /* Create the 1st chart*/
 $myPicture->setGraphArea(60,60,450,190);
 $myPicture->drawFilledRectangle(60,60,450,190,array("R"=>255,"G"=>255,"B"=>255,"Surrounding"=>-200,"Alpha"=>10));
 $myPicture->drawScale(array("DrawSubTicks"=>TRUE));
 $myPicture->setShadow(TRUE,array("X"=>1,"Y"=>1,"R"=>0,"G"=>0,"B"=>0,"Alpha"=>10));
 $myPicture->setFontProperties(array("FontName"=>"fonts/pf_arma_five.ttf","FontSize"=>6));
 $myPicture->drawPlotChart(array("BorderSize"=>1, "Surrounding"=>40, "BorderAlpha"=>100, "PlotSize"=>2, "PlotBorder"=>TRUE, "DisplayValues"=>TRUE, "DisplayColor"=>DISPLAY_AUTO));
 $myPicture->setShadow(FALSE);

 /* Create the 2nd chart */
 $myPicture->setGraphArea(500,60,670,190);
 $myPicture->drawFilledRectangle(500,60,670,190,array("R"=>255,"G"=>255,"B"=>255,"Surrounding"=>-200,"Alpha"=>10));
 $myPicture->drawScale(array("Pos"=>SCALE_POS_TOPBOTTOM,"DrawSubTicks"=>TRUE));
 $myPicture->setShadow(TRUE,array("X"=>1,"Y"=>1,"R"=>0,"G"=>0,"B"=>0,"Alpha"=>10));
 $myPicture->drawPlotChart(array("PlotSize"=>1,"PlotBorder"=>TRUE,"BorderSize"=>1));
 $myPicture->setShadow(FALSE);

 /* Write the legend*/
 $myPicture->drawLegend(510,205,array("Style"=>LEGEND_NOBORDER,"Mode"=>LEGEND_HORIZONTAL));


Sample script #2


 /* pChart library inclusions */
 include("../class/pData.class.php");
 include("../class/pDraw.class.php");
 include("../class/pImage.class.php");

 /* Create and populate the pData object */
 $MyData = new pData();  
 for($i=0;$i<=20;$i++) { $MyData->addPoints(rand(0,20),"Probe 1"); }
 for($i=0;$i<=20;$i++) { $MyData->addPoints(rand(0,20),"Probe 2"); }
 $MyData->setSerieShape("Probe 1",SERIE_SHAPE_FILLEDTRIANGLE);
 $MyData->setSerieShape("Probe 2",SERIE_SHAPE_FILLEDSQUARE);
 $MyData->setAxisName(0,"Temperatures");

 /* Create the pChart object */
 $myPicture = new pImage(700,230,$MyData);

 /* Turn of Antialiasing */
 $myPicture->Antialias = FALSE;

 /* Add a border to the picture */
 $myPicture->drawRectangle(0,0,699,229,array("R"=>0,"G"=>0,"B"=>0));
 
 /* Write the chart title */ 
 $myPicture->setFontProperties(array("FontName"=>"../fonts/Forgotte.ttf","FontSize"=>11));
 $myPicture->drawText(150,35,"Average temperature",array("FontSize"=>20,"Align"=>TEXT_ALIGN_BOTTOMMIDDLE));

 /* Set the default font */
 $myPicture->setFontProperties(array("FontName"=>"../fonts/pf_arma_five.ttf","FontSize"=>6));

 /* Define the chart area */
 $myPicture->setGraphArea(60,40,650,200);

 /* Draw the scale */
 $scaleSettings = array("XMargin"=>10,"YMargin"=>10,"Floating"=>TRUE,"GridR"=>200,"GridG"=>200,"GridB"=>200,"DrawSubTicks"=>TRUE,"CycleBackground"=>TRUE);
 $myPicture->drawScale($scaleSettings);

 /* Turn on Antialiasing */
 $myPicture->Antialias = TRUE;
 $myPicture->setShadow(TRUE,array("X"=>1,"Y"=>1,"R"=>0,"G"=>0,"B"=>0,"Alpha"=>10));

 /* Draw the line chart */
 $myPicture->drawPlotChart();

 /* Write the chart legend */
 $myPicture->drawLegend(580,20,array("Style"=>LEGEND_NOBORDER,"Mode"=>LEGEND_HORIZONTAL));

 /* Render the picture (choose the best way) */
 $myPicture->autoOutput("pictures/example.drawPlotChart.simple.png");
Last updated on 09/03/2010 
by Jean-Damien 
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