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How to Build a Wrapper Module in Drupal for FusionCharts

What is FusionCharts?

Fusion Charts is a charting API that is specific to online graphs and charts. It renders graphs in either HTML5 or Flash so your charts will be compatible with mobile devices as well. It can handle data in XML or JSON formats. The software is easy to use and the graphs are customizable so, for creating interactive graphs and charts for your website, it’s a reasonable choice.

The chart types are divided into four packages.. They are:

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Creating and Using a Generic FusionCharts Module

This article shows you how to set up a generic module for running FusionCharts in Drupal. It provides an interface to the FusionCharts code so that it does not have to be duplicated every time you create a new graph.

It also shows you how to build another module that accesses the generic module. The chart-specific module contains a page callback to draw the graph and a hook_menu() function to link the graph to a menu item.

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Creating a Line Graph Using Google Chart Tool

The new Google Chart Tools is a Javascript library that lets the user create interactive graphs and charts. Google calls it their 'Visualization API', and differentiates it from the older 'Chart API' by saying their new tool is interactive, uses live data, and lets you incorporate third-party tools into your applications. I will call it their Chart Tool, because that is what it is called on the title page as of the writing of this document.

This example shows how to create a multi-line line graph using Google Chart Tools, PHP, and AJAX.

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The settings necessary to get a clean bar chart out of FusionChart

Submitted by ecoadmin on

I wanted to use FusionCharts to create a bar chart but the default settings in FusionCharts generate a display that buzzes with features that create noise but do little to help people understand the meaning of the data contained in the chart. Here is my data with the default settings:

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