neat-charts/README.md

Dash-SVG-chart

PHP project to generate cached SVG price charts

Requirements

• PHP

Installation

Extract the files from https://github.com/seigler/Dash-SVG-chart/archive/master.zip where you want to use the chart, or from the command line run git clone "https://github.com/seigler/Dash-SVG-chart" . in the folder where you want the charts served from.

Usage

In your PHP file:

Header('Content-type: image/svg+xml; charset=utf-8');
Header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="chart-' . date('Y-m-d\THisT') . '.svg"');
include 'buffer.php';
include 'SVGChartBuilder.php';

/* your code here to generate $chartData */

print SVGChartBuilder::renderStockChart($chartData, [
  'width'=>800,
  'height'=>250,
  'lineColor'=>"#1C75BC",
  'labelColor'=>"#777",
  'smoothed'=>false
]);

In your HTML: <img src="path to the PHP file">

Credits

• PHP output buffering based on http://www.the-art-of-web.com/php/buffer/
• Chart appearance based on advice found at http://vis4.net/blog/posts/doing-the-line-charts-right/