How To Use Server-Side Charting to Generate Charts Dynamically (KB244049)

How To Use Server-Side Charting to Generate Charts Dynamically

ChartGIF: Demonstrates Streaming an Office Web Chart GIF to the Browser (KB264096)

ChartGIF.exe Demonstrates Streaming an Office Web Chart GIF to the Browser

Eastwood Chart Servlet

Eastwood Chart Servlet
Eastwood is a free servlet that emulates the function of the Google Chart API, using JFreeChart to render the charts. Eastwood is aimed at web developers that want to incorporate charts into their web pages, and features:
support for generating pie charts, bar charts, line charts and scatter plots, using encodings that match the Google Chart API;

JFreeChart

JFreeChart A free Java chart library.
JFreeChart supports pie charts (2D and 3D), bar charts (horizontal and vertical, regular and stacked), line charts, scatter plots, time series charts, high-low-open-close charts, candlestick plots, Gantt charts, combined plots, thermometers, dials and more. JFreeChart can be used in applications, applets, servlets and JSP. This project is maintained by David Gilbert.

FusionCharts Free

FusionCharts Free - Animated Flash Charts and Graphs for ASP, PHP, ASP.NET and other web applications

FusionCharts Free is a flash charting component that can be used to render data-driven & animated charts for your web applications and presentations.
It is a cross-browser and cross-platform solution that can be used with PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, ColdFusion, simple HTML pages or even PowerPoint Presentations to deliver interactive and powerful flash charts. You do NOT need to know anything about Flash to use FusionCharts. All you need to know is the language you're programming in.

Open Flash Chart .NET

Open Flash Chart .NET (OFC.NET) is based on the Open Flash Chart project located at http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/ (or SourceForge). Source code for OFC.NET is located on a Subversion server provided by K2 Colocation at http://svn.k2colocation.com/svn/OpenFlashChart.

Open Flash Chart

Open Flash Chart
Open Flash Chart, is open source. It is free to use and you get the source code to fiddle with!

amCharts - Flash Charts and Charting Software

amCharts: flash charts, charting software

Line & Area chart sets a new standard of usability for line & area charts. A visitor to your website will be able to zoom in on a particular period, turn values on and off, and show or hide graphs. With this tool, you can make:
- A simple line & area chart
- A stacked line & area chart
- A 100% stacked line & area chart
Pie & Donut chart
You can use it to create:
- 2D or 3D pie charts
- 2D or 3D donut charts
- Beautiful navigation clusters

Column & Bar chart
lets you build:
- 2D or 3D column charts
- 2D or 3D bar charts
- Stacked bar or column charts
-100% stacked bar or column charts
- Floating bar or column charts
- Bar or column and line chart mix

Scatter (XY) & Bubble chart can be used to display various scientific data, as well as presenting three-dimensional data in a 2D format.
With this chart, you can make:
- Scatter charts
- Bubble charts
- Time plots

WebFX Chart Demo

Chart Demo (WebFX)

Chart Types
A few different chart types are supported and they can be combined in a variety of configurations even in the same chart. The following types are supported:
Area
Line
Stacked Area
Stacked Line
Vertical Bars

Demo
Download

Plotr - a javascript framework which enables you to render charts (Solutoire.com)

Solutoire.com › Plotr
Plotr is a javascript framework which enables you to render charts in most modern browsers. It's based on the PlotKit Framework (renderer for Mochikit) and it depends on the Prototype Javascript Framework.

Plotr Project site

Downloads:
Latest version: 0.3.0
plotr-0.2.0.zip
plotr-0.3.0.zip


Examples:
Horizontal/vertical BarChart example
LineChart example
PieChart example
Legend example

PlotKit - Javascript Chart Plotting

PlotKit - Javascript Chart Plotting
PlotKit is a Chart and Graph Plotting Library for Javascript. It has support for HTML Canvas and also SVG via Adobe SVG Viewer and native browser support.
PlotKit is fully documented and there is a quick tutorial to get you started.
PlotKit is a complete rewrite of CanvasGraph. It is better structured and supported.

Requirements:
MochiKit 1.3 or higher
HTML Canvas: Safari 2+, Opera 9+, Firefox 1.5+, IE 6 (in emulated mode)
SVG: Opera 9+, Firefox 1.5+ (see note), IE6 with Adobe SVG.

Download:
Latest Version is : 0.9.1 - plotkit-0.9.1.zip
Last Updated: 29 August 2006

Documentation:
PlotKit Documentation - Complete documentation
PlotKit Quick Start

Examples:
PlotKit Dynamic Charting Test - Redrawing values from a dynamic table.
PlotKit Simple Canvas Demo - A self contained demo in a single file. Use this to get started!
PlotKit Simple SVG Demo - A self contained demo in a single file. Use this to get started!
Sweet Canvas Test
Sweet SVG Test
Simple Canvas Test
Simple SVG Test
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Emprise JavaScript Charts - 100% Pure JavaScript Charts

Emprise JavaScript Charts :: 100% Pure JavaScript Charts

Features:

1. Interactive: Features such as Hints, Mouse Tracking, Mouse Events, Key Tracking and Events, Zooming, Scrolling, and Crosshairs raise interactivity and user experience in web charting to a new level.
2. Axis Scaling: There's no need to determine your data range before hand. EJSChart will calculate and scale automatically to fit whatever data it is presented with.
3. Auto Zooming, Scrolling: Too much data and not enough screen real estate? Show it all. Let your end users zoom in on the pieces they're most interested in. Axis locking for single axis zoom, scrolling and automatic axis scaling are all included.

Chart Examples:
http://www.ejschart.com/examples/index.php

Open Flash Chart

Open Flash Chart - Home

Download Open Flash Chart, this includes the PHP class.
Read the tutorial.
Check out the gallery.

Helper classes:
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby and Rails
PHP
.NET

AnyChart - Flash Charting

AnyChart - Cross-Platform Flash Charting Solutions For Your Project
AnyChart is a flexible Adobe Flash based solution that allows you to create interactive and great looking flash charts and dashboards. It is a cross-browser and cross-platform charting solution intended for everybody who deals with creation of dashboard, reporting, analytics, statistical, financial or any other data visualization solutions.
Attractive data visualization is an essential part of any service or application. Ubiquity and performance of Flash technology makes it, probably, the best solution for charting needs.

FusionCharts Free - Flash Charts and Graphs

FusionCharts Free - Animated Flash Charts and Graphs for ASP, PHP, ASP.NET and other web applications
FusionCharts Free is a flash charting component that can be used to render data-driven & animated charts for your web applications and presentations.
It is a cross-browser and cross-platform solution that can be used with PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, ColdFusion, simple HTML pages or even PowerPoint Presentations to deliver interactive and powerful flash charts. You do NOT need to know anything about Flash to use FusionCharts. All you need to know is the language you're programming in.

Chart Gallery
Online Demos
Download

Charts And Graphs: Modern Solutions

Charts And Graphs: Modern Solutions Blog

Charts And Graphs: Modern Solutions - Smashing Magazine

Charts And Graphs: Modern Solutions Developer's Toolbox Smashing Magazine

Ajax- or JavaScript-frameworks:
The Dojo Charting Engine can generate graphs and charts with few JavaScript snippets.

Charts and Graphs: Flash-based Solutions

1. FusionCharts Free
2. amCharts
3. AnyChart Flash Chart Component
4. Rich Chart Server for .NET
5. Flash Charts Pro
6. Swiff Chart Generator
7. XML/SWF Charts
8. Open Flash Chart (OFC)

Charts and Graphs: PHP/ASP Libraries

1. Libchart
2. Image_Graph
3. JpGraph
4. .netCHARTING

Charts and Graphs: JavaScript-based solutions

1. Emprise JavaScript Charts
2. PlotKit - Javascript Chart Plotting (the script requires MochiKit JavaScript library)
3. Plotr

CSS-based Solutions

1. Ajax MGraph
2. CSS Vertical Bar Graphs
3. CSS Diagrams
4. CSS for Bar Graphs
5. Dynamic Pie Chart with CSS
6. Real World Bar Graphics with some CSS
7. SAC Simple Accessible Charts
8. CSS Line Graphs
9. Vertical Bar Graphs with CSS and PHP
10. An accessible bar chart
11. Stu Nicholls definition list bar chart
    
12. Chart Demo

Related Articles:

1. Displaying percentages
2. CSS Bar Graphs and Charts
3. Creating a graph using percentage background images
4. Super simple CSS bars

Canvas pie

Canvas pie

XSL stylesheets to convert XML into HTML bar charts

Digits to Charts (CodeProject)
This article presents several XSLT stylesheets for converting XML numerical data to eye-candy HTML bar charts.
Download stylesheets - 22.5 Kb