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Posted by Shawn Hamzee on 07/17/06 21:45
> Shawn Hamzee wrote:
>
> Don't toppost
>
>> <andy@andyh.co.uk> wrote:
>>> <hamzee@sbcglobal.net.INVALID> wrote:
>>>> I am having a problem with Image_Graph on php 5.1.4. I installed
>>>> the package and all of its dependencies through pear installer
>>>> without any hitches. Then I started to add some very simple code to
>>>> create a graph in an existing php page. I added the code for the
>>>> graph and added the elements of it plus some static data. However,
>>>> when I browse the page, I get garbled data instead of the graph.
>>>> Has anyone ever run into this problem. I am testing this on an xp
>>>> test bed for now.
>>>>
>>>> I am thinking the fact that I'm getting garbled data means that the
>>>> class creation has gone well; however rendering the graph is not
>>>> happening for some reason.
>>>
>>> Have you output an appropriate Content-type header for the image
>>> format you're
>>> using?
>> Actually, I just found out what is going on:
>> In order to use image_graph, one cannot have both a graph and html
>> (php generated or otherwise) on the same page.
>>
>> So in order to get around this, you'll have to save the graph to an
>> image
>> file (.png) and then echo a link in the script for it.
>
> Not really.
> You could save the portion of your script that makes the graph something
> like graphcreator.php, and echo that as the source for your image. That way
> it will always stay up to date without any constant diskwriting. Depending
> on how much people will see the graph storing it and refreshing it
> periodically could save some overhead. If it's just some statistics a few
> people will check out a couple of times per week I'd keep it totally
> dynamic.
>
> Grtz,
Really! Do you have a working example of your method? I'd be interested to
see how the source of image can be a php file!
Thanks
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