Posted by Andrew @ Rockface on 07/02/05 12:55

shawn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I downloaded a piegraph class from phpclasses.org
> (http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/file/9316.html) and was able to show the
> sample pie graph. However if I include it directly in my code all are
> gibberish. I need to use <embed src="myfiles/pie.php"> to display it using
> browser's plug-in. In my case, Quicktime was the one to handle the phg
> format.
>
> The problem is: this works only on machine where Quicktime is already in
> place. If a browser doesn't have a png handler, for example without
> Quicktime, the embed simply displays as an empty image box. I was trying to
> add some parameter to the code like below:
>
> <embed src="pie.php" width="300" height="100" MIME-Type="image/x-png;
> image/png">
>
> but it didn't see to have any impact.
>
> I can't ask visitors to install Quicktime on their machines. All I wanted is
> to be able to show this dynamic generated png image in a php web page. Could
> someone tell me what I have not done right here and what is the proper way
> of doing this?

No idea why you need to embed anything. Here's the example you pointed at:

<?
require("piegraph.class.php");

// class call with the width, height & data
$pie = new PieGraph(200, 100, array(231,122,32,54));

// colors for the data
$pie->setColors(array("#ff0000","#ff8800","#0022ff","#33ff33"));

// legends for the data
$pie->setLegends(array("Internet Explorer","Mozilla
Firefox","Opera","Netscape"));

// Display creation time of the graph
$pie->DisplayCreationTime();

// Height of the pie 3d effect
$pie->set3dHeight(15);

// Display the graph
$pie->display();
?>

Nothing there about quicktime or embedding. Just create a file called
test.php, cut and paste the above code into the file. open the file with
your browser of choice. All this is assuming you have php installed -
you do have php installed don't you?

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