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setSerieDescription- Add a description to one serie

You can use this function to set a description to one serie. This attribute is important when you want to add a legend to you chart, this way instead of writting the serie name that may be obscur to the user, you can use an user friendly description

When creating a serie the description is set to the serie name.

Calling this function

setSerieDescription($Series,$Description);

Where :

Series is the name of the serie. (or an array of names)

Description is the description associated to the serie.

Sample script #1

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

 /* Populate some data */
 $MyData->addPoints(array(24,25,26,25,25),"My Serie 1");

 /* Set the description of "My Serie 1" */
 $MyData->setSerieDescription("My Serie 1","Temperature");

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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