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setAbscissa - Define the abscissa axis labels serie

This function allow you to associate a data series to the abscissa labels of you chart. This function can be used in a lot of circumstances like for displaying dates, hours, or pure text labels on the abscissa axis.

When selecting a serie as Abscissa axis labels, this serie is marked as "non drawable"

Calling this function
setAbscissa($Serie);

Where :

Serie is the name of the serie that will be used to label the abscissa axis.

Sample script #1

 /* Create the pData object */
 $MyData = new pData(); 

 /* Populate some data */
 $MyData->addPoints(array(1,2,3,4),"My Serie 1");
 $MyData->addPoints(array("Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr"),"My Serie 2");

 /* Use "My Serie 2" as abscissa axis labels */
 $MyData->setAbscissa("My Serie 2");

Labels "Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr" will be used on the abscissa axis.
Sample script #2



 $MyData = new pData();  

 /* Prepare some nice data & axis config */
 $MyData->addPoints(array(24,-25,26,25,25),"Temperature");
 $MyData->setAxisName(0,"Temperatures");
 $MyData->addPoints(array("Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun"),"Labels");
 $MyData->setSerieDescription("Labels","Months");
 $MyData->setAbscissa("Labels");

 /* Define the graph area and do some makeup */
 $myPicture->setGraphArea(60,60,660,190);
 $myPicture->drawText(350,55,"My chart title",array("FontSize"=>20,"Align"=>TEXT_ALIGN_BOTTOMMIDDLE));
 $myPicture->drawFilledRectangle(60,60,660,190,array("R"=>255,"G"=>255,"B"=>255,"Surrounding"=>-200,"Alpha"=>10));

 /* Compute and draw the scale */
 $myPicture->setFontProperties(array("FontName"=>"fonts/pf_arma_five.ttf","FontSize"=>6));
 $myPicture->drawScale(array("DrawSubTicks"=>TRUE));
Last updated on 12/03/2009 
by Jean-Damien 
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