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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Appendix C. FAQ</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="manual.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.0"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="JpGraph Manual"><link rel="up" href="pt09.html" title="Part IX. Appendices"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Appendix C. FAQ</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part IX. Appendices</th><td width="20%" align="right"> </td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="appendix" title="Appendix C. FAQ"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="app.faq"></a>Appendix C. FAQ</h2></div></div></div>
<div class="qandaset" title="Frequently Asked Questions"><a name="id2623081"></a><dl><dt>C.1. <a href="apc.html#id2623083">Where should I install the library?</a></dt><dt>C.2. <a href="apc.html#id2623132">Can I use JpGraph with Windows/Unix/Linux etc? </a></dt><dt>C.3. <a href="apc.html#id2623153"> My Web-admin does not allow PHP any write permissions and hence I can't use
the cache feature of JpGraph. Is there any way to completely turn off the
caching feature?</a></dt><dt>C.4. <a href="apc.html#id2623188"> After installation all I get is an empty page when I try any of the
examples?</a></dt><dt>C.5. <a href="apc.html#id2623207"> How can I send the generated graph to both the browser and a file at the same
time?</a></dt><dt>C.6. <a href="apc.html#id2623322"> What is this 'auto' I see in all the Graph() creating in the Examples
directory? Do I need it?</a></dt><dt>C.7. <a href="apc.html#id2623344"> The Client side image map examples does not work on my machine?</a></dt><dt>C.8. <a href="apc.html#id2623366"> When I run 'testsuit_jpgraph.php' I get a warning "Due to insufficient
permission the source files can't be automatically created"</a></dt><dt>C.9. <a href="apc.html#id2623393"> How can I pass data to my image generating script?</a></dt><dt>C.10. <a href="apc.html#id2623433"> How can I use data from an Excel spreadsheet?</a></dt><dt>C.11. <a href="apc.html#id2623494"> How do I pass data from a Database (e.g. MySQL) to a script to produce a
graph?</a></dt><dt>C.12. <a href="apc.html#id2623533"> I change my data but my image does not get updated? The old image is still
send back to the browser?</a></dt><dt>C.13. <a href="apc.html#id2623628"> Can I run JpGraph in batch-mode just outputting an image directly to a file
and not streamed back to the browser? </a></dt><dt>C.14. <a href="apc.html#id2623649"> Is there a mailing list for JpGraph? </a></dt><dt>C.15. <a href="apc.html#id2623669"> Do you offer a commercial version of JpGraph with full support and no
QPL?</a></dt><dt>C.16. <a href="apc.html#id2623712"> Some of my script just return a blank image and no error messages? </a></dt><dt>C.17. <a href="apc.html#id2623726"> I can see the generated image fine in the browser but I can't print it?
</a></dt><dt>C.18. <a href="apc.html#id2623764"> How can I generate an image directly to disk without streaming it back to the
browser?</a></dt><dt>C.19. <a href="apc.html#id2623786"> When I try to plot graphs with many 1000:s of data points I only get a blank
page. Is there a limit in JpGraph to the number of data points you can plot?
</a></dt><dt>C.20. <a href="apc.html#id2623785"> How can I use an image in a dynamically created PDF?</a></dt><dt>C.21. <a href="apc.html#id2623880"> How can I force the user to get a question to download the generated image
instead of just displaying it in the browser? </a></dt><dt>C.22. <a href="apc.html#id2623909"> How can I open up a CSIM link in a graph in a separate window?</a></dt><dt>C.23. <a href="apc.html#id2623967"> No TTF fonts are displayed.</a></dt><dt>C.24. <a href="apc.html#id2624032"> All my TTF fonts are yellow no matter what color I specify?</a></dt><dt>C.25. <a href="apc.html#id2624050"> I get an error "This PHP build has not been configured with TTF support. You
need to recompile your PHP installation with FreeType support."</a></dt><dt>C.26. <a href="apc.html#id2624075"> I get an error "Fatal error: Font cant be
found"</a></dt><dt>C.27. <a href="apc.html#id2624110"> I get the error "Can't find font file
FONT_PATHarial.ttf" (or some other font)</a></dt><dt>C.28. <a href="apc.html#id2624140"> I get an error "Font file ... is not readable or does not
exist"</a></dt><dt>C.29. <a href="apc.html#id2624180"> How can I install additional TTF font families? </a></dt><dt>C.30. <a href="apc.html#id2624094"> How can I display special characters that isn't available on the
keyboard?</a></dt><dt>C.31. <a href="apc.html#id2624261"> When I put a text object on a graph and use Set90AndMargin() it doesn't
show?</a></dt><dt>C.32. <a href="apc.html#id2624327"> I get an error "Error: Cannot add header information
- headers already sent ..."
</a></dt><dt>C.33. <a href="apc.html#id2624383"> I get an error "Unknown function
imagecreate"</a></dt><dt>C.34. <a href="apc.html#id2624416"> I get an error "Unknown function
imagecreatejpeg"</a></dt><dt>C.35. <a href="apc.html#id2624444"> I get an error "Warning: MkDir failed (Permission
denied) in jpgraph.php on line XXXX"</a></dt><dt>C.36. <a href="apc.html#id2624472"> I get an error "Fatal error: Undefined class name
"parent" in jpgraph.php on line xxxx"</a></dt><dt>C.37. <a href="apc.html#id2624508"> I get an error "Your data contains non-numeric
values."</a></dt><dt>C.38. <a href="apc.html#id2624542"> I get an error "Date is outside specified scale
range" trying to create a Gantt chart</a></dt><dt>C.39. <a href="apc.html#id2624570"> I get an error "Invalid file handle in jpgraph.php at
line XXXX"</a></dt><dt>C.40. <a href="apc.html#id2624518"> I get an error "Fatal error: Call to undefined
function: getcsimareas() ..."
</a></dt><dt>C.41. <a href="apc.html#id2624550"> I get an error "Fatal error: Call to undefined
function: imagetypes()"</a></dt><dt>C.42. <a href="apc.html#id2624654"> I get an error saying something like "Error:
'parent::' not valid in context..."</a></dt><dt>C.43. <a href="apc.html#id2624682"> I get an error "Image cannot be displayed because it
contains errors.."</a></dt><dt>C.44. <a href="apc.html#id2624727"> When I use PHP5 + JpGraph 2.x I get "A plot has an
illegal scale..."</a></dt><dt>C.45. <a href="apc.html#id2624776"> I try to mix bar and line graphs and the bars doesn't get centered and the
labels are not correctly aligned?</a></dt><dt>C.46. <a href="apc.html#id2624663"> How do I turn off anti-aliasing for TTF fonts?</a></dt><dt>C.47. <a href="apc.html#id2624842"> The auto-scaling algorithm chooses very tight limits around my Y-values. How
do I get more "space" between the end of the scale and the min/max values?
</a></dt><dt>C.48. <a href="apc.html#id2624861"> I want to use autoscaling to handle the maximum value but I always want the
Y-axis to start at 0 regardless of the actual minimum value?</a></dt><dt>C.49. <a href="apc.html#id2624902"> I want the position of the X-axis to be at the bottom of the Y-scale and not
always at the position Y=0?</a></dt><dt>C.50. <a href="apc.html#id2624946"> I specify color X in the image but the color displayed is not exactly what I
specified?</a></dt><dt>C.51. <a href="apc.html#id2624988"> Can I have labels at an arbitrary angle on the X-axis? </a></dt><dt>C.52. <a href="apc.html#id2625029"> How do I invert the Y-scale so that it has the minimum value on top and the
largest value at the bottom?</a></dt><dt>C.53. <a href="apc.html#id2625086"> Can I have the auto-scaling algorithm restrict itself to whole
numbers?</a></dt><dt>C.54. <a href="apc.html#id2625104"> Is it possible to have horizontal bar graphs?</a></dt><dt>C.55. <a href="apc.html#id2625124"> Line weight does not seem to work in my graphs? I specify a thick line but
still get a thin line?</a></dt><dt>C.56. <a href="apc.html#id2625155"> How can I have more space between the Y-axis and the title? </a></dt><dt>C.57. <a href="apc.html#id2625168"> How can I display both X and Y values above each data point in a line, bar or
scatter plot?</a></dt><dt>C.58. <a href="apc.html#id2625213"> Can I display stock box-charts (open, close, high, low) with JpGraph? </a></dt><dt>C.59. <a href="apc.html#id2625231"> Is there any way to specify a newline in the legend box for a specific
legend?</a></dt><dt>C.60. <a href="apc.html#id2625258"> How can I print unicode characters?</a></dt><dt>C.61. <a href="apc.html#id2625220"> My background images doesn't display properly. It just shows a black solid
square? </a></dt><dt>C.62. <a href="apc.html#id2625314"> How do I make each bar in a bar plot have it's own color?</a></dt><dt>C.63. <a href="apc.html#id2625331"> How can I adjust the position of the axis title?</a></dt><dt>C.64. <a href="apc.html#id2625364"> How can I change the image format, i.e jpeg, gif or png? </a></dt><dt>C.65. <a href="apc.html#id2625346"> How do I specify the font for legends?</a></dt><dt>C.66. <a href="apc.html#id2625424"> When I rotate text and labels the text is not rotated correctly?</a></dt><dt>C.67. <a href="apc.html#id2625406"> When I rotate a paragraph (multi-line) text the paragraph is always left
aligned even though I have specified another alignment. It seems fine for
non-rotated paragraphs though. What is the problem? </a></dt><dt>C.68. <a href="apc.html#id2625472"> I have a huge number of data points and I only want labels (which I want to
specify as text string) and ticks on every n:th data. Can I do this?</a></dt><dt>C.69. <a href="apc.html#id2625497"> How can I make the labels have a 1000 comma separator?</a></dt><dt>C.70. <a href="apc.html#id2625536"> The Y2 axis is no longer positioned at the right side of the graph</a></dt><dt>C.71. <a href="apc.html#id2625573"> How can I include several graphs in the same image?</a></dt><dt>C.72. <a href="apc.html#id2625627"> How can I have an exploded slice with 3D pie plots?</a></dt><dt>C.73. <a href="apc.html#id2625654"> How can I display values for each slice close to the pie?</a></dt><dt>C.74. <a href="apc.html#id2625667"> How can I change between percentage and absolute values for pie slices?
</a></dt><dt>C.75. <a href="apc.html#id2625719"> Can I display the actual value as labels on the pie bar instead of the
percentage?</a></dt><dt>C.76. <a href="apc.html#id2625742"> How can I adust the start angle of the first slice?</a></dt><dt>C.77. <a href="apc.html#id2625757"> When I use IE v5 or v6 I can only save the generated graph image in the
browser as a BMP file even if it was generated as a JPEG or PNG encoded
image?</a></dt></dl><table border="0" width="100%" summary="Q and A Set"><col align="left" width="1%"><col><tbody>
<tr class="question" title="C.1."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2623083"></a><a name="id2623097"></a><p><b>C.1.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>Where should I install the library?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> The simple answer is: Anywhere You like! Since the necessary library files
are included in Your own script with an "include" (or more likely a
require_once) statement it doesn't matter where You put the library as long as
Your scripts can access it. A common place is to store the library is in a
directory where PHP searches for include files (as specified in Your
<code class="filename">php.ini</code> file), for example in
"<code class="filename">/usr/share/php</code>" or perhaps
"<code class="filename">/usr/local/php</code>" depending on Your PHP configuration. </p><p> An even simpler way is to just store the library in a directory where Your
scripts are executed from. However , this is not really recommended. </p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.2."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2623132"></a><a name="id2623134"></a><p><b>C.2.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>Can I use JpGraph with Windows/Unix/Linux etc? </p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Yes. The library itself is OS-agnostic. As long as you have a WEB server
which supports PHP 4.3.x (or above) and have the GD library. Please note though
that the behavior of PHP/Apache on Unix and Windows seems to have some subtle
differences which might affect things like path specification using '/' or '\'. </p><p>
</p><div class="caution" title="Caution" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Caution</h3>
<p>The library does not support any 64bit OS and there are known issues
with running the library on a 64bit OS (either Unix or Windows). There
are currently no plans to address this in the near future.</p>
</div><p>
</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.3."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2623153"></a><a name="id2623168"></a><p><b>C.3.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> My Web-admin does not allow PHP any write permissions and hence I can't use
the cache feature of JpGraph. Is there any way to completely turn off the
caching feature?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Yes, set the constant "<code class="code">USE_CACHE</code>" to <code class="code">FALSE</code> in
jpg-config.php. This way will skip writing file even if a filename has been
submitted in the Graph() creation call. You can also accomplish this by not
having any file name at all in the call to Graph().</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.4."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2623188"></a><a name="id2623198"></a><p><b>C.4.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> After installation all I get is an empty page when I try any of the
examples?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> If the HTTP server response is truly absolutely empty (verify that by looking
at the source of the page that gets returned to the browser) then the only
answer is that the HTTP server has crashed. Most likely it is the PHP process
within the server that has crashed. Even though PHP is fairly stable there are
still ways of crashing it. To investigate this further You might try to: </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem">
<p>... investigate the system log for traces of a server
crash.</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>... try increase the maximum allowed memory for PHP in php.ini. As
a rule it should be a minimum of 32MB (and preferable 64MB)</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>... upgrade PHP to the latest stable version (and use the compile
options shown further down in this FAQ.</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>... upgrade PHP to the latest stable version (and use the compile
options shown further down in this FAQ.</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>... enable all errors and warning for PHP (in php.ini) to help
track down the problem.</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>... disable output buffering to get errors send back to the
browser as soon as possible (in <code class="filename">php.ini</code>)</p>
</li></ul></div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.5."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2623207"></a><a name="id2623284"></a><p><b>C.5.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How can I send the generated graph to both the browser and a file at the same
time?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> This is not directly supported by means of any particular option or setting
in the library but with small "trick" this is easy enough to accomplish. </p><p> The idea is to use the _IMG_HANDLER option that forces the
<code class="code">Graph::Stroke()</code> to just return the image handler and then stop.
We can then manually first send the image to the chosen file and then stream it
back to the browser using some internal methods in the library. </p><p> The following code snippet shows how this is done </p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
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</pre></td><td class="hl-main" valign="top"><pre><span class="hl-inlinetags">&lt;?php</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">$graph</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-reserved">new</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Graph</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-number">400</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-number">300</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
&lt;... </span><span class="hl-identifier">code</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">to</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">generate</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">a</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">graph</span><span class="hl-code"> ...&gt;
</span><span class="hl-comment">//</span><span class="hl-comment"> Get the handler to prevent the library from sending the </span><span class="hl-comment"></span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-comment">//</span><span class="hl-comment"> image to the browser</span><span class="hl-comment"></span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">$gdImgHandler</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-var">$graph</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">Stroke</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-identifier">_IMG_HANDLER</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-comment">//</span><span class="hl-comment"> Stroke image to a file and browser </span><span class="hl-comment"></span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-comment">//</span><span class="hl-comment"> Default is PNG so use &quot;.png&quot; as suffix </span><span class="hl-comment"></span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">$fileName</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">/tmp/imagefile.png</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-code">; </span><span class="hl-var">$graph</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">img</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">Stream</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$fileName</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-comment">//</span><span class="hl-comment"> Send it back to browser </span><span class="hl-comment"></span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">$graph</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">img</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">Headers</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$graph</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">img</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">Stream</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-inlinetags">?&gt;</span></pre></td></tr></table></div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.6."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2623322"></a><a name="id2623324"></a><p><b>C.6.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> What is this 'auto' I see in all the Graph() creating in the Examples
directory? Do I need it?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> No. The third argument in the graph call is an optional cache file name and
is not necessary unless You want to use the caching feature of JpGraph. By
specifying 'auto' the filename is automatically created based on the name of the
script file.</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.7."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2623344"></a><a name="id2623346"></a><p><b>C.7.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> The Client side image map examples does not work on my machine?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> In order to run the examples the code generates HTML to read the image from
the cache directory as Apache sees it. You must adjust the image tag to have the
correct path to your cache directory. </p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.8."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2623366"></a><a name="id2623368"></a><p><b>C.8.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> When I run 'testsuit_jpgraph.php' I get a warning "Due to insufficient
permission the source files can't be automatically created"</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> This is not a serious problem. When the testsuit is run it tries to create a
symbolic link with the same base name as the individual testfile but with
extension ".phps". This is just so it is possible to click on an image and then
view the source syntax colored. If Apache doesn't have write permissions to the
directory where 'testsuit_jpgraph.php' is executed from you will get this
warning.</p><p> If you want to use this feature just change the permissions so Apache may
write to the directory.</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.9."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2623393"></a><a name="id2623395"></a><p><b>C.9.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How can I pass data to my image generating script?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> There are basically three(four) ways:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem">
<p>Read the data from a file</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>Read the data from a DB</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>Pass the data in the &lt;<span class="markup">img</span>&gt; tag using URL
parameter passing. For example <code class="code"> &lt;img
src="myimg.php?d1=2&amp;d2=7&amp;d3=12" border=0&gt;
</code> This method is not suitable for large data sets since there is
an upper bound to the length of an URL specification (around 255
characters)</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>A fourth way might be to use session variables to pass the data
between different scripts. For large data sets the only practical way is
to read the data from a file or from a DB to construct the data
vectors.</p>
</li></ul></div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.10."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2623433"></a><a name="id2623464"></a><p><b>C.10.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How can I use data from an Excel spreadsheet?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Export the data from Excel as a CSV (Comma separated Values) file to be able
to easily read the file. Then either write your own routine to read and parse
the data from that file or use the utility class "ReadCSV" in
"jpgraph_utils.php". </p><p> A basic example on how to do this for a line graph assuming the name of the
data file is "data.csv".</p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
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</pre></td><td class="hl-main" valign="top"><pre><span class="hl-inlinetags">&lt;?php</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-reserved">include</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">../jpgraph.php</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">include</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">../jpgraph_line.php</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">include</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">../jpgraph_utils.inc</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$n</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-identifier">ReadFileData</span><span class="hl-code">::</span><span class="hl-identifier">FromCSV</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">'</span><span class="hl-string">data.csv</span><span class="hl-quotes">'</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-var">$datay</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">if</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">$n</span><span class="hl-code"> == </span><span class="hl-reserved">false</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">die</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">Can't read data.csv.</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-comment">//</span><span class="hl-comment"> Setup the graph $graph = new Graph(400,300);</span><span class="hl-comment"></span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">$graph</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">title</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">Set</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">'</span><span class="hl-string">Reading CSV file with </span><span class="hl-quotes">'</span><span class="hl-code">.</span><span class="hl-var">$n</span><span class="hl-code">.</span><span class="hl-quotes">'</span><span class="hl-string"> data points</span><span class="hl-quotes">'</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$graph</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">SetScale</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">intlin</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$l1</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-reserved">new</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">LinePlot</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$datay</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$graph</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">Add</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$l1</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$graph</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">Stroke</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-inlinetags">?&gt;</span></pre></td></tr></table></div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.11."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2623494"></a><a name="id2623496"></a><p><b>C.11.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How do I pass data from a Database (e.g. MySQL) to a script to produce a
graph?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> By adding some SQL statements in Your graph scripts that creates the data
arrays from the DB. </p><p> Watch out for empty values and strings. JpGraph doesn't know how to plot
strings. Any value passed into JpGraph should be only valid numeric data. See
the online discussions on populating from a DB Populating DB or the discussion
on how to read data from file Reading from file. </p><p> See <code class="uri"><a class="uri" href="http://jpgraph.intellit.nl/viewtopic.php?t=8" target="_top">How to
populate arrays from mySQL</a></code>
</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.12."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2623533"></a><a name="id2623524"></a><p><b>C.12.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I change my data but my image does not get updated? The old image is still
send back to the browser?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> What you are seeing is a cached version of Your image. Depending on your
setup it could either be that the browser has a cached image or You are using
the built-in cache system in the library by accident. </p><p>
<span class="bold"><strong>Fixing the browser cache</strong></span> Since the script from
the browser point of view is the same it just displays the old image. To fix
this you need to turn of the browser image caching. </p><p> Another "trick" that can be used since normally it is impossible to control
the browser for the end user is ot add a "dummy" URL argument which changes.
This way the browser will always see a new URL and then always reload that file.
This could be done for example as:</p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
</pre></td><td class="hl-main" valign="top"><pre><span class="hl-code">echo ('&lt;img src=&quot;graphscript.php?' .microtime().'&quot;&gt;');</span></pre></td></tr></table></div><p>
<span class="bold"><strong>Fixing the library cache</strong></span></p><p> The other reason might be that You have enabled the built-in cache feature in
JpGraph. To turn it of You can either </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem">
<p> Not specify a cache name in the call to Graph(). Just call new
Graph(200,200) for example.</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p> Turn off the reading from the cache by setting READ_CACHE to
false (in jpg-config.inc)</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p> Turn off the reading and writing from the cache by setting
USE_CACHE to false (in jpg-config.php)</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p> Use the cache but with a timeout so that the image will be
re-generated if the cached image is older then the specified timeout
value in the call to Graph().</p>
</li></ul></div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.13."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2623628"></a><a name="id2623630"></a><p><b>C.13.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Can I run JpGraph in batch-mode just outputting an image directly to a file
and not streamed back to the browser? </p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Yes. Just specify an absolute file name in the call to Graph::Stroke(). To
store the image in the local temp directory use: </p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
</pre></td><td class="hl-main" valign="top"><pre><span class="hl-code">$myGraph-&gt;Stroke(&quot;/tmp/myimage.png&quot;);</span></pre></td></tr></table></div><div class="caution" title="Caution" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Caution</h3>
<p>Note: You must match the file ending Yourself to the format you have
chosen to generate the image in.</p>
</div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.14."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2623649"></a><a name="id2623660"></a><p><b>C.14.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Is there a mailing list for JpGraph? </p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> No, but there is a user <code class="uri"><a class="uri" href="http://jpgraph.intellit.nl/index.php" target="_top">community forum</a></code> at
<code class="uri"><a class="uri" href="http://jpgraph.intellit.nl/index.php" target="_top">http://jpgraph.intellit.nl/index.php</a></code> where users discuss various
aspects of the library.</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.15."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2623669"></a><a name="id2623694"></a><p><b>C.15.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Do you offer a commercial version of JpGraph with full support and no
QPL?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Yes, For commercial (non-open-source) you will need to get the "JpGraph
Professional License". This allows you you deploy JpGraph in a commercial
context. Further details upon contact.</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.16."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2623712"></a><a name="id2623714"></a><p><b>C.16.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Some of my script just return a blank image and no error messages? </p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> This could potentially be a lot of things depending on which browser you are
using. One thing you might want to check is that your script doesn't take to
long time. In that case they might hit the time limit for running a PHP script
as specified in php.ini. You can adjust that time limit with a call to
set_time_limit().</p><p> If You are seeing just an empty page (really empty) then this is a sign that
Your server has crashed. Most likely an old version of PHP is being used which
has taken down the HTTP server process. </p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.17."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2623726"></a><a name="id2623742"></a><p><b>C.17.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I can see the generated image fine in the browser but I can't print it?
</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> This is again browser dependent. Some browser does not like to print an image
which is generated on-line and does exist as a *.jpg, *.png etc file. No good
workaround has been identified short of changing browser. Some browsers (and
versions) can print others not. The only real safe way (if you need printing) is
to generate the image on disk and then have the browser read the image from
there. </p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.18."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2623764"></a><a name="id2623766"></a><p><b>C.18.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How can I generate an image directly to disk without streaming it back to the
browser?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Two ways: (Preferred way) If you supply a filename in the call to
$graph-&gt;Stroke() the image will be written to that file and not be streamed back
to the browser. If you prefer to have the image going to the cache directory but
not streamed back then you could just set the '$aInlineFlag' in the initial call
to Graph() (fifth argument) to false as in
</p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
</pre></td><td class="hl-main" valign="top"><pre><span class="hl-code">$mygraph = new Graph(200,200,&quot;auto&quot;,0,false);</span></pre></td></tr></table></div><p>
The "auto" argument makes an automatic file name in the cache based on the
script name. The 0 indicates that we have no timeout. The advantage with this
method is that you can specify a timeout to avoid having the image generated to
often. </p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.19."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2623786"></a><a name="id2623797"></a><p><b>C.19.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> When I try to plot graphs with many 1000:s of data points I only get a blank
page. Is there a limit in JpGraph to the number of data points you can plot?
</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> No, there is no such limit. The problem is most likely that your script takes
so long time that the PHP execution limit (as specified in php.ini) aborts the
script. If you have more than 10,000 data points JpGraph will work but doing
this kind of heavy data analysis on a WEB-server extension is probably not a
good idea to start with.</p><p> The other reason could be that the script exhausts the allowed memory limit
for PHP as specified in the "php.ini" file. By default this is often set to 8Mb
which is to low for a complex JpGraph script. Try increasing the memory limit to
a minimum of 16Mb. For very complex graphs with 1000s of data points there might
be a need to increase the memory even further. </p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.20."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2623785"></a><a name="id2623827"></a><p><b>C.20.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How can I use an image in a dynamically created PDF?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> You can do this in two ways, you can either stroke the image created with the
library directly to a file where it can be used with Your PDF library of choice.
For example, using FPDF (<code class="uri"><a class="uri" href="http://www.fpdf.org/" target="_top">www.fpdf.org</a></code>) the Image() function would have to be used to read an
image from the filesystem. </p><p> If You are using the PDF library (APIs included in the PHP distribution but
the library itself might require a license depending on Your usage.) you can
avoid the storage of the file by getting the image handler for the image
directly and use it with PDF. </p><p> With the PDF library you must first open the in memory image with a call to
<code class="code">pdf_open_memory_image($pdf, $im)</code>. The following script places
an image from JpGraph directly into a PDF page that is returned when running
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</span><span class="hl-var">$graph</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-reserved">new</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Graph</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-code">...</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-comment">//</span><span class="hl-comment"> Code to create the graph </span><span class="hl-comment"></span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-comment">//</span><span class="hl-comment"> .........................</span><span class="hl-comment"></span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-comment">//</span><span class="hl-comment"> Put the image in a PDF page </span><span class="hl-comment"></span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">$im</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-var">$graph</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">Stroke</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-identifier">_IMG_HANDLER</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$pdf</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-identifier">pdf_new</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-identifier">pdf_open_file</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$pdf</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-quotes">'</span><span class="hl-quotes">'</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-comment">//</span><span class="hl-comment"> Convert the GD image to somehing the </span><span class="hl-comment"></span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-comment">//</span><span class="hl-comment"> PDFlibrary knows how to handle </span><span class="hl-comment"></span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">$pimg</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-identifier">pdf_open_memory_image</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$pdf</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-var">$im</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-identifier">pdf_begin_page</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$pdf</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">595</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">842</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-identifier">pdf_add_outline</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$pdf</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-quotes">'</span><span class="hl-string">Page 1</span><span class="hl-quotes">'</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-identifier">pdf_place_image</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$pdf</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-var">$pimg</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">500</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-identifier">pdf_close_image</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$pdf</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-var">$pimg</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-identifier">pdf_end_page</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$pdf</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-identifier">pdf_close</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$pdf</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$buf</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-identifier">pdf_get_buffer</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$pdf</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$len</span><span class="hl-code"> =</span><span class="hl-identifier">strlen</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$buf</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-comment">//</span><span class="hl-comment"> Send PDF mime headers </span><span class="hl-comment"></span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">header</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">'</span><span class="hl-string">Content-type: application/pdf</span><span class="hl-quotes">'</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-identifier">header</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">Content-Length: </span><span class="hl-var">$len</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-identifier">header</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">Content-Disposition: inline; filename=foo.pdf</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-comment">//</span><span class="hl-comment"> Send the content of the PDF file </span><span class="hl-comment"></span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">echo</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">$buf</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-comment">//</span><span class="hl-comment"> .. and clean up </span><span class="hl-comment"></span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-identifier">pdf_delete</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$pdf</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-inlinetags">?&gt;</span></pre></td></tr></table></div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.21."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2623880"></a><a name="id2623882"></a><p><b>C.21.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How can I force the user to get a question to download the generated image
instead of just displaying it in the browser? </p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Change your code for creating the image: </p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
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</span><span class="hl-var">$im</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-var">$graph</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">Stroke</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-identifier">_IMG_HANDLER</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">; </span><span class="hl-var">$filename</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">chart</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$file_type</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">image/png</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$file_ending</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">png</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$filename</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-var">$filename</span><span class="hl-code">.</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">.</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-code">.</span><span class="hl-var">$file_ending</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-identifier">header</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">Content-Type: application/</span><span class="hl-var">$file_type</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-identifier">header</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">Content-Disposition:attachment; filename=</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-code">.</span><span class="hl-var">$filename</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-identifier">header</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">Pragma: no-cache</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-identifier">header</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">Expires:0</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-identifier">ImagePNG</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$im</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-inlinetags">?&gt;</span></pre></td></tr></table></div><p> A html link, which directs to the php page (assuming the filename is
chart.php): Download Then, if you click on the link, a download dialog appears
and you can download the "chart.png". </p><div class="note" title="Note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3>
<p>If you directly open chart.php, the image is directly streamed to the
browser and the download dialog will not open. </p>
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<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> To open a target CSIM (drill down) in a separate window some javascript in
the target link is necessary since this action must be performed in the browser.
The target URL needs top be in the form of an action to open up a window (with
any optional URL argument that might be needed). For example, assume we have a
bar graph and that theb user can click on each bar to get more details. When the
user clicks on a bar we open up the detaails witha call to the helper script
"bar_details.php" and send the parameter "id" to the script to separate the
individual bars. We would then use the following URL link (with javascript) </p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
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</span><span class="hl-comment">//</span><span class="hl-comment"> Create targets for the image maps so that the details are opened </span><span class="hl-comment"></span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-comment">//</span><span class="hl-comment"> in a separate window </span><span class="hl-comment"></span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">$fmtStr</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">javascript:window.open('bar_details.php?id=%d','_new','width=500,height=300');
void(0)</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$n</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-identifier">count</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$datay</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$targ</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-reserved">array</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$alts</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-reserved">array</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">for</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$i</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">; </span><span class="hl-var">$i</span><span class="hl-code"> &lt; </span><span class="hl-var">$n</span><span class="hl-code">; ++</span><span class="hl-var">$i</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">$targ</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">$i</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-identifier">sprintf</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$fmtStr</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-var">$i</span><span class="hl-code">+</span><span class="hl-number">1</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$alts</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">$i</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-quotes">'</span><span class="hl-string">val=%d</span><span class="hl-quotes">'</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">$bplot</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">SetCSIMTargets</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$targ</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-var">$alts</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$graph</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">Add</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$bplot</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
...
</span><span class="hl-comment">//</span><span class="hl-comment"> Send back the HTML page to browser </span><span class="hl-comment"></span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">$graph</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">StrokeCSIM</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-inlinetags">?&gt;</span></pre></td></tr></table></div><p> It should be noted that in the above Javascript code we have used the special
window name '_new' which means that a new window will be opened each time a user
clicks on a bar. By giving the window a specific name the same window would be
re-used every time. </p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.23."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2623967"></a><a name="id2623969"></a><p><b>C.23.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> No TTF fonts are displayed.</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> There are potentially many reasons for this Please start by trying the
following bare bones PHP script to see if basic TTF support is available in the
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</span><span class="hl-comment">//</span><span class="hl-comment"> Change this defines to where Your fonts are stored </span><span class="hl-comment"></span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">DEFINE</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">TTF_DIR</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-comment">//</span><span class="hl-comment"> Change this define to a font file that You know that You have</span><span class="hl-comment"></span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">DEFINE</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">TTF_FONTFILE</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">arial.ttf</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-comment">//</span><span class="hl-comment"> Text to display </span><span class="hl-comment"></span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">DEFINE</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">TTF_TEXT</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">Hello World!</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$im</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-identifier">imagecreatetruecolor</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-number">400</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">100</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$white</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-identifier">imagecolorallocate</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$im</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">255</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$black</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-identifier">imagecolorallocate</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$im</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-identifier">imagefilledrectangle</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$im</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-number">399</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-number">99</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-var">$white</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-identifier">imagettftext</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$im</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">30</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">10</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-number">40</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-var">$black</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-identifier">TTF_DIR</span><span class="hl-code">.</span><span class="hl-identifier">TTF_FONTFILE</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-identifier">TTF_TEXT</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-identifier">header</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">Content-type: image/png</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-identifier">imagepng</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$im</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-inlinetags">?&gt;</span></pre></td></tr></table></div><p> The above script when run should produce an image with a black text string on
a white background. If this doesn't work then there is a setup problem with PHP
+ TTF. </p><p> As a first step to resolve this recompile Your PHP4 setup using the following
basic configuration (depending on the local conditions some options/path might
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--prefix=/usr/share \
--datadir=/usr/share/php \
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--libdir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include \
--bindir=/usr/bin \
--with-config-file-path=/etc \
--enable-mbstring --enable-mbregex \
--with-mysql \
&lt;span class=&quot;bold&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;--with-gd \
--enable-gd-imgstrttf \
--enable-gd-native-ttf \
--with-ttf-dir=/usr/lib \
--with-freetype-dir=/usr/lib \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib \
--with-png-dir=/usr/lib \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib \
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;--with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6 \
--with-tiff-dir=/usr/lib \
--enable-memory-limit --enable-safe-mode \
--bindir=/usr/bin \
--enable-bcmath -enable-calendar \
--enable-ctype --with-ftp \
--enable-magic-quotes \
--enable-inline-optimization \
--with-iconv</span></pre></td></tr></table></div><p> If there is still no TTF fonts displayed then the next step is to upgrade
Your TTF libraries to the latest version. The FreeType version 2.1.9 is known to
work well. </p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.24."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624032"></a><a name="id2624034"></a><p><b>C.24.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> All my TTF fonts are yellow no matter what color I specify?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> You have a old buggy version of the FreeType library, most likely the old
FreeType I library is being used. Please upgrade to the latest version of
FreeType II.</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.25."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624050"></a><a name="id2624052"></a><p><b>C.25.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I get an error "This PHP build has not been configured with TTF support. You
need to recompile your PHP installation with FreeType support."</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> This error is reported if the built-in PHP/GD function <code class="uri"><a class="uri" href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagettfbbox.php" target="_top">"imagettfbbox()"</a></code> is not available. This is a crucial method to make
TTF fonts work with JpGraph. The most likely reason for this problem is that the
PHP configuration is faulty and does not have correct support for TTF fonts.
Please recompile PHP as shown above and make sure that the built-in version of
GD is being used and not the stand-alone library. </p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.26."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624075"></a><a name="id2624085"></a><p><b>C.26.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I get an error <span class="errmsg">"Fatal error: Font cant be
found"</span></p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> You have either not specified a correct path where your fonts are stored (see
top of jpg-config.inc) or you have tried to use a font you do not have
installed.</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.27."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624110"></a><a name="id2624112"></a><p><b>C.27.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I get the error <span class="errmsg">"Can't find font file
FONT_PATHarial.ttf"</span> (or some other font)</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> You are most likely running on Windows. This seems to be caused by a bug in
PHP/Apache (or PHP/IIS) specifically on Windows. The problem seems to be that
PHP doesn't remember a DEFINE() setting across two or more include directive. A
simple workaround is to hard-code the font path in class TTF in file
jpgraph.php. Note: If you have this problem you will most likely also have a
problem with the path to the cache directory.</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.28."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624140"></a><a name="id2624016"></a><p><b>C.28.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I get an error <span class="emphasis"><em>"Font file ... is not readable or does not
exist"</em></span></p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> This error is caused by the inability of PHP/JpGraph to read the font file.
This could have several reasons: </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem">
<p>The file path or name is wrong and the file really doesn't exist.
Please check that the file and path (as shown in the error message)
really exists.</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>If the file exists it might still not be possible for PHP to read the
file due to permission problem. Please make sure that PHP can read a
file in the TTF directory. This can be verified with the following short
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">DEFINE</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">TTF_DIR</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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</span><span class="hl-reserved">DEFINE</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">TTF_FONTFILE</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">arial.ttf</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
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<p> If the script reports <span class="emphasis"><em>FAIL</em></span> then it must be
investigated whether the file names or permissions are wrong. </p>
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<tr class="question" title="C.29."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624180"></a><a name="id2624074"></a><p><b>C.29.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How can I install additional TTF font families? </p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> See the <code class="uri"><a class="uri" href="phptip04.php" target="_top">Adding additional TTF font
families</a></code> section on this site for a full explanation of the necessary
steps.</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.30."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624094"></a><a name="id2624231"></a><p><b>C.30.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How can I display special characters that isn't available on the
keyboard?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> By using the standard "&amp;#dddd" encoding of the symbol in a text string.
For example, to get the character for the "copyright" symbol &amp;copy; which
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<p>Use the class "<code class="code">SymChar</code>" defined in jpgraph_utils.php to get
easy access to greek and special mathematical symbols. This class allow the
specification of common symbols by name. Some examples:</p>
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$gamma = SymChar::Get('delta');
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$mu = SymChar::Get('mu');
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$pi = SymChar::Get('pi');
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$lambda = SymChar::Get('lambda');
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$integral = SymChar::Get('int');
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<tr class="question" title="C.31."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624261"></a><a name="id2624281"></a><p><b>C.31.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> When I put a text object on a graph and use Set90AndMargin() it doesn't
show?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> The main cause for this behaviour is that the text object position is rotated
90 degrees. For example, putting a text object at Pos(0,0) it will become
"invisible". The reason for this behaviour is that the texts position (not the
text itself) is rotated around the center of the image 90 degrees clockwise. </p><p> For example, assuming the image is WxH in size. Rotating position (0,0) which
is the top left corner of the image gives the rotated position: </p><p>
<code class="code">(0,0) =&gt; rotate 90 degrees =&gt; (W,0)</code>
</p><p> Now, if a string was put at position (W,0) it will be drawn outside the image
and hence become invisible. </p><p> If You need to position text with rotated images just keep this in mind and
swap the meaning of the X and Y position since the X-position will become the Y
position and vice versa after a 90 degree rotation. Some experiments will soon
allow You to get the hang of it. </p><div class="tip" title="Tip" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Tip</h3>
<p>Start with an image that is equal in W and H since this makes it easier to
understand the rotation.</p>
</div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.32."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624327"></a><a name="id2624336"></a><p><b>C.32.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I get an error <span class="errmsg">"Error: Cannot add header information
- headers already sent ..."</span>
</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> First, this is not a problem with JpGraph per se. What has happened is that
your PHP file which produces the image has already returned some data to the
browser before the image has been sent. This is most often caused by one or more
spaces before the first "&lt;?php" The browser will now implicitly set the
header to plain text. </p><p> When later JpGraph tries to send the correct image header the browser gets
confused since it has already received a header for the current document. (Each
document can only have one and only one type). Check your files for any output
(even a single space) before the call to Graph::Graph() (or Graph::Stroke()) </p><p> If you are running on Windows this problem could be caused by a blank line at
the end of any of the jpgraph_*.php files. All files in jpgraph ends in a
newline which some configurations on Windows doesn't like. Remove the newline so
that the file ends just after the final "?&gt;" </p><p> Also remember that when you include external file using include/include_once
and so on Php include the whole content of the file; this content of the file
also include any potential carriage return/line feed or "blank" space before
"&lt;?php" and after "?&gt;" These "dirty characters" will stop the JpGraph
being properly sent back because they are included in the image streaming.
</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.33."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624383"></a><a name="id2624385"></a><p><b>C.33.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I get an error <span class="errmsg">"Unknown function
<code class="code">imagecreate</code>"</span></p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> You have not compiled PHP with support for the GD graphic library. See PHP
documentation for details. Note that you also need to configure PHP to use GD
and/or TTF fonts to get JpGraph full functionality</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.34."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624416"></a><a name="id2624418"></a><p><b>C.34.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I get an error <span class="errmsg">"Unknown function
<code class="code">imagecreatejpeg</code>"</span></p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> You have not compiled PHP with support for the JPG format. See PHP
documentation for details</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.35."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624444"></a><a name="id2624446"></a><p><b>C.35.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I get an error <span class="errmsg">"Warning: MkDir failed (Permission
denied) in jpgraph.php on line XXXX"</span></p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> This is a permission problem. To use the cache Apache/PHP must have write
permission to the cache directory. Make sure that Apache/PHP have sufficient
permissions to write to the specified cache directory.</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.36."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624472"></a><a name="id2624474"></a><p><b>C.36.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I get an error <span class="errmsg">"Fatal error: Undefined class name
"parent" in jpgraph.php on line xxxx"</span></p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> You are using an older version of PHP. JpGraph 1.x requires at least PHP
4.3</p><p>
</p><div class="note" title="Note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3>
<p>Remember that JpGraph 1.x has reached its end of life and is no longer
maintained.</p>
</div><p>
</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.37."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624508"></a><a name="id2624510"></a><p><b>C.37.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I get an error <span class="errmsg">"Your data contains non-numeric
values."</span></p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Most likely Your data really contains non-numeric data which You need to
further investigate (for example by printing out the array with a
<code class="code">var_dump()</code>. One additional thing to watch out for is if the
data looks like ".56" (or "-.56") which is a shortform of "0.56". The problem is
that the number starts with an "." (dot) which is non-numeric. The solution is
to replace the single dot with a "0."</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.38."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624542"></a><a name="id2624544"></a><p><b>C.38.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I get an error <span class="errmsg">"Date is outside specified scale
range"</span> trying to create a Gantt chart</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> As the error says, you start or end date for a activity is larger/smaller
than the max/min value in the scale. If you get this error and you are using
automatic scale then you are probably using a null value (empty string "") as
start or end date. Check your data</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.39."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624570"></a><a name="id2624572"></a><p><b>C.39.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I get an error <span class="errmsg">"Invalid file handle in jpgraph.php at
line XXXX"</span></p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> This is a permission problem. Check that your cache directory has the right
permissions to let JpGraph access and write to it. </p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.40."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624518"></a><a name="id2624596"></a><p><b>C.40.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I get an error <span class="errmsg">"Fatal error: Call to undefined
function: getcsimareas() ..."</span>
</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> You have enabled the <code class="code">DEFINE("JPG_DEBUG",true)</code> in jpgraph.php.
This is an internal debug flag which should always be left untouched. </p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.41."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624550"></a><a name="id2624625"></a><p><b>C.41.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I get an error <span class="errmsg">"Fatal error: Call to undefined
function: imagetypes()"</span></p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> You have not installed the core GD library correct. <code class="code">imagetypes()</code>
is a standard GD function. Please refer to the installation section in the
manual for more information on how to verify You setup.</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.42."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624654"></a><a name="id2624656"></a><p><b>C.42.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I get an error saying something like <span class="errmsg">"Error:
'parent::' not valid in context..."</span></p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> You are most likely using the Zend cache. There is a bug with some versions
of the Zend cache together with the "parent" meta class. If the referenced
parent class is in another file that is included this problem seems to occur.
The workaround seems to be to put all classes in the same physical file or
upgrade the Zend cache to a more recent version.</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.43."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624682"></a><a name="id2624684"></a><p><b>C.43.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I get an error <span class="errmsg">"Image cannot be displayed because it
contains errors.."</span></p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> First of all this is an error message from the browser and not the library.
There could be various reasons for this but the most likely scenario is that
Your installation of PHP has both enabled output buffering and enabled strict
error checking. </p><p> What could now happen is that with output buffering enabled PHP will buffer
up any text error messages. This could for example be som "Notice:" warnings if
You have forgotten to initialize some variables. When then the library adds the
proper image header and the buffered error messages together with the image gets
sent back the browser it all falls apart. </p><p> The browser tries to interpret both the error messages and the image data as
an image and it of course fails and gives this error message. Why? Because the
textual error messages that was buffered is interpreted as if they would belong
to the image which of course is nonsense. </p><p> The solution is to disable output-buffering until You are convinced that Your
code is without any problem. On a development server it is recommended to always
have output buffering disabled. </p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.44."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624727"></a><a name="id2624729"></a><p><b>C.44.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> When I use PHP5 + JpGraph 2.x I get <span class="errmsg">"A plot has an
illegal scale..."</span></p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> There have been a few reports of this problem and it seems to be due to a
faulty PHP 5.x installation. For example a standard SuSE 9.3 PHP5 installation
gives this problem. The exact reason for the problem has not been established
but it all points to a PHP5 problem since it can be solved by adjusting the PHP
installation without any change in the library. </p><p><span class="bold"><strong> Step 1: </strong></span></p><p> First check that Your php.ini file have compatibility mode turned off (in
<code class="filename">php.ini</code>)</p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
</pre></td><td class="hl-main" valign="top"><pre><span class="hl-code">zend.ze1_compatibility_mode=off</span></pre></td></tr></table></div><p>
<span class="bold"><strong>Step 2: </strong></span></p><p> If turning the compatibility mode off still doesn't solve the problem the
only remaining solution is to re-compile PHP 5. For example on our development
servers we use the following configuration Note: We place "php.ini" in
"/etc/php5/apache2" and You might want to change this to suit Your specific
setup. </p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
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</pre></td><td class="hl-main" valign="top"><pre><span class="hl-code">./configure
--prefix=/usr/share --datadir=/usr/share/php \
--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs2-prefork \
--libdir=/usr/share
--includedir=/usr/include \
--bindir=/usr/bin \
--with-config-file-path=/etc/php5/apache2 \
--enable-mbstring --enable-mbregex \
--with-mysql \
--with-gd --enable-gd-imgstrttf --enable-gd-native-ttf \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib \
--with-png-dir=/usr/lib --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib --with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6 \
--with-tiff-dir=/usr/lib --with-ttf-dir=/usr/lib \
--with-freetype-dir=/usr/lib \
--enable-ftp \
--enable-memory-limit
--enable-safe-mode \
--bindir=/usr/bin \
--enable-bcmath -enable-calendar \
--enable-ctype --with-ftp \
--enable-magic-quotes \
--enable-inline-optimization \
--with-bz2 \
--with-iconv</span></pre></td></tr></table></div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.45."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624776"></a><a name="id2624802"></a><p><b>C.45.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I try to mix bar and line graphs and the bars doesn't get centered and the
labels are not correctly aligned?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> This is a known problem. The best way to partly solve this is to make sure
you add the bar plot as the last plot to the graph. The reason behind this
problem is that plot that gets added to the graph internally makes modification
to the alignment of the plot. Since each plot does not know what other plot has
been added it will happily overwrite previous plots settings in the graph. Hence
the workaround by adding the bar last. conflicting settings.)</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.46."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624663"></a><a name="id2624823"></a><p><b>C.46.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How do I turn off anti-aliasing for TTF fonts?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> There is not any built in support in JpGraph to do this. Since the whole
purpose of TTF fonts is to provide a smooth font experience there is really no
point in wanting to do this. If you want non-aliased fonts you should use the
built-in bitmap fonts.</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.47."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624842"></a><a name="id2624844"></a><p><b>C.47.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> The auto-scaling algorithm chooses very tight limits around my Y-values. How
do I get more "space" between the end of the scale and the min/max values?
</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Use the <code class="code">SetGrace()</code> to specify some extra space (as percentage of
the scale) between the min/max value and the limits of the scale. For example
<code class="code">$graph-&gt;yscale-&gt;SetGrace(10)</code> gives 10% extra space at the
ends.</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.48."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624861"></a><a name="id2624874"></a><p><b>C.48.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I want to use autoscaling to handle the maximum value but I always want the
Y-axis to start at 0 regardless of the actual minimum value?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Use the <code class="code">SetAutoMin()</code> method. For example as in </p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
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$graph = new Graph(400,350);
$graph-&gt;SetScale(&quot;intlin&quot;);
$graph-&gt;yaxis-&gt;scale-&gt;SetAutoMin(0);
...</span></pre></td></tr></table></div><div class="tip" title="Tip" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Tip</h3>
<p>If you need to limit the maximum value but auto-scale the minimum value
use the <code class="code">SetAutoMax() </code>method.</p>
</div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.49."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624902"></a><a name="id2624916"></a><p><b>C.49.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I want the position of the X-axis to be at the bottom of the Y-scale and not
always at the position Y=0?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> To adjust the position of the Axis Use the <code class="code">Axis::SetPos()</code>
method. The argument to this method can be either the numerical scale value on
the Y-axis where the X-axis should be positioned or it can be one of the two
special value "min" or "max". In the latter case the axis will be positioned on
either the minimum or the maximum value of the scale. For example
</p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
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$graph-&gt;xaxis-&gt;SetPos(&quot;min&quot;);
...</span></pre></td></tr></table></div><p>
Will put the X-axis at the lowest value of the Y-axis. </p><div class="note" title="Note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3>
<p>The same positioning is possible for the Y-axis.</p>
</div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.50."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624946"></a><a name="id2624954"></a><p><b>C.50.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I specify color X in the image but the color displayed is not exactly what I
specified?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> This is a result of a finite color palette for GIF, PNG formats. If you are
using anti-aliasing, perhaps a background image or even gradient fill you might
exhaust the color palette supported in the GD library. Try set the constant
<code class="code">USE_APPROX_COLORS</code> to false and generate the picture again. If
you now get an error message saying that no more colors can be allocated this is
the problem. There is no good workaround if you are using GD 1.x since for PNG
the GD 1.x library does not support "True-color". </p><p> The only real solution is to upgrade to GD 2.x to get full true-color
support. If you are using a background image try to "degrade" it to have a
smaller color palette or turn of anti-aliasing and you might have enough free
palette entries to cater for all the colors you want and still use GD 1.x </p><div class="note" title="Note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3>
<p>This problem is only seen in very, very old installations that use GD 1.x
library which has been deprecated since around 2005</p>
</div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.51."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2624988"></a><a name="id2624997"></a><p><b>C.51.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Can I have labels at an arbitrary angle on the X-axis? </p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Yes, almost any text can be stroked at an arbitrary angle. For example to
have the labels at 45 degrees angle use </p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
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$graph-&gt;xaxis-&gt;SetTickLabels($labels);
$graph-&gt;xaxis-&gt;SetLabelAngle(45);
...</span></pre></td></tr></table></div><div class="note" title="Note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3>
<p>Internal fonts support 0 and 90 degrees text. If you need to use, say 45
degree (or any other arbitrary angle), you must use TTF fonts. </p>
</div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.52."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625029"></a><a name="id2625031"></a><p><b>C.52.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How do I invert the Y-scale so that it has the minimum value on top and the
largest value at the bottom?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> The easiest way to do this is by following a two step process</p><p>a) Negating all Your values and then </p><p>b) Create a callback function for the Y-axis that negates all the display
values. </p><p> What will happen now is that after the negative values have been feed into
the graph it will create a scale starting at the lowest value, say -8, then go
up to the highest, say -1. If these values are then inverted when printed it
will in affect achieve the inverted axis appearance. The code snippet below
shows a basic example of this technique. </p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
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function _cb_negate($aVal) {
return round(-$aVal);
} // A fake depth curve
$ydata = ....
// Negate all data
$n = count($ydata);
for($i=0; $i&lt;$n; ++$i) {
$ydata[$i] = -$ydata[$i];
}
// Basic graph setup
$graph = new Graph(400,300);
$graph-&gt;SetScale(&quot;linlin&quot;);
// Setup axis
$graph-&gt;yaxis-&gt;SetLabelFormatCallback(&quot;_cb_negate&quot;);
$plot = new LinePlot($ydata,$xdata);
$graph-&gt;Add($plot);
$graph-&gt;Stroke();</span></pre></td></tr></table></div><p> Two scripts that uses this technique can be found in the
<code class="filename">Examples/</code> directory in the distribution,
<code class="filename">"inyaxisex1.php"</code> and
<code class="filename">"inyaxisex2.php"</code>. </p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.53."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625086"></a><a name="id2625089"></a><p><b>C.53.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Can I have the auto-scaling algorithm restrict itself to whole
numbers?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Yes, use the "int" scale specification, for example
<code class="code">$graph-&gt;SetScale('inttext')</code> will make the Y-axis have an
integer scale and the X-axis a text-scale</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.54."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625104"></a><a name="id2625113"></a><p><b>C.54.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Is it possible to have horizontal bar graphs?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Yes, Just create a normal bar and call the method
<code class="code">Set90AndMargin()</code> to rotate the graph.</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.55."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625124"></a><a name="id2625137"></a><p><b>C.55.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Line weight does not seem to work in my graphs? I specify a thick line but
still get a thin line?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> You have probably enabled Anti-aliasing. If anti-aliasing is enabled setting
line-weight will have no affect.</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.56."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625155"></a><a name="id2625157"></a><p><b>C.56.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How can I have more space between the Y-axis and the title? </p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Use the <code class="code">Axis::SetTitleMargin()</code> method. For example to have a 25
pixels margin for the Y-title you could use:
</p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
</pre></td><td class="hl-main" valign="top"><pre><span class="hl-code">$mygraph-&gt;yaxis-&gt;SetTitleMargin(25);</span></pre></td></tr></table></div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.57."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625168"></a><a name="id2625184"></a><p><b>C.57.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How can I display both X and Y values above each data point in a line, bar or
scatter plot?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> You need to use a value formatting callback. The callback function is called
for each data point and is passed the Y-value as argument. This means that if
You also need to display the x-value it must be available in the callback
function,perhaps as a global data array. </p><p> Something along the lines of</p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
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</span><span class="hl-var">$datay</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-reserved">array</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-code">...</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$datax</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-reserved">array</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-code">...</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$idx</span><span class="hl-code">=</span><span class="hl-number">0</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">function</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">xyCallback</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$yval</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-brackets">{</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-reserved">global</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-var">$datax</span><span class="hl-code">, </span><span class="hl-var">$idx</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-reserved">return</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-quotes">'</span><span class="hl-string">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">'</span><span class="hl-code">.</span><span class="hl-var">$datax</span><span class="hl-brackets">[</span><span class="hl-var">$idx</span><span class="hl-code">++</span><span class="hl-brackets">]</span><span class="hl-code">.</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">, </span><span class="hl-var">$yval</span><span class="hl-string">)</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-brackets">}</span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-comment">//</span><span class="hl-comment"> Some more code ... </span><span class="hl-comment"></span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">$graph</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-reserved">new</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">Graph</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-code">...</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$graph</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">SetScale</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-string">intlin</span><span class="hl-quotes">&quot;</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$p1</span><span class="hl-code"> = </span><span class="hl-reserved">new</span><span class="hl-code"> </span><span class="hl-identifier">LinePlot</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-var">$datay</span><span class="hl-code">,</span><span class="hl-var">$datax</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$p1</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">value</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">SetFormatCallback</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-quotes">'</span><span class="hl-string">xyCallback</span><span class="hl-quotes">'</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-var">$p1</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">value</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">Show</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-comment">//</span><span class="hl-comment"> Some more code ... </span><span class="hl-comment"></span><span class="hl-code">
</span><span class="hl-var">$graph</span><span class="hl-code">-&gt;</span><span class="hl-identifier">Stroke</span><span class="hl-brackets">(</span><span class="hl-brackets">)</span><span class="hl-code">;
</span><span class="hl-inlinetags">?&gt;</span></pre></td></tr></table></div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.58."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625213"></a><a name="id2625215"></a><p><b>C.58.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Can I display stock box-charts (open, close, high, low) with JpGraph? </p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Yes, just create a <code class="code">StockPlot()</code> graph.</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.59."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625231"></a><a name="id2625239"></a><p><b>C.59.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Is there any way to specify a newline in the legend box for a specific
legend?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Yes. From version 1.8 full multi-line text paragraphs are supported. Just
make sure that your text uses double-quotes and a newline character. </p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.60."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625258"></a><a name="id2625260"></a><p><b>C.60.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How can I print unicode characters?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Use &amp;#XXXX; format in your strings where XXXX is the decimal value for
the unicode character. You may find a list of Unicode characters and there
encodings at <code class="uri"><a class="uri" href="http://www.unicode.org/charts/" target="_top">www.unicode.org</a></code> Please observe that the encoding in the lists are
given in hexadecimal and these values must be converted to decimal. </p><p> Note: If You are working in an UTF-8 environment then the characters may be
input directly.</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.61."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625220"></a><a name="id2625295"></a><p><b>C.61.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> My background images doesn't display properly. It just shows a black solid
square? </p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> You are using a very old GD version (probably 2.0.1). Background images only
work with a truecolor image, (enable the USE_TRUECOLOR constant). Some people
have reported that it works as long as the background image is not in PNG
format. The drawback with truecolor images is that truefont doesn't work
properly in GD versions &lt; 2.0.8 </p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.62."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625314"></a><a name="id2625316"></a><p><b>C.62.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How do I make each bar in a bar plot have it's own color?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Specify an array as argument to <code class="code">BarPlot::SetColor()</code> as in
</p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
</pre></td><td class="hl-main" valign="top"><pre><span class="hl-code">$mybarplot-&gt;SetColor(array(&quot;red&quot;,&quot;green&quot;,&quot;blue&quot;,&quot;gray&quot;));</span></pre></td></tr></table></div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.63."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625331"></a><a name="id2625341"></a><p><b>C.63.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How can I adjust the position of the axis title?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> You can add an alignment parameter when you specify the title. You specify
one of "high", "low" or "center" as in </p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
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$mygraph-&gt;xaxis-&gt;SetTitle(&quot;mytitle&quot;,&quot;center&quot;);
$mygraph-&gt;xaxis-&gt;SetTitle(&quot;mytitle&quot;,&quot;low&quot;);</span></pre></td></tr></table></div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.64."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625364"></a><a name="id2625367"></a><p><b>C.64.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How can I change the image format, i.e jpeg, gif or png? </p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Use the <code class="code">Image::SetImgFormat()</code> method at runtime. You can also
change the default value with the <code class="code">DEFAULT_GFORMAT</code> define in
jpg-config.php. This is normally set to 'auto' format which means that JpGraph
will automatically choose the format depending on what is available.</p><p>For example to use the JPEG format :</p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
</pre></td><td class="hl-main" valign="top"><pre><span class="hl-code">$graph-&gt;img-&gt;SetImgFormat('jpeg');</span></pre></td></tr></table></div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.65."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625346"></a><a name="id2625403"></a><p><b>C.65.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How do I specify the font for legends?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Use the Legend::SetFont() method. As in </p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
</pre></td><td class="hl-main" valign="top"><pre><span class="hl-code">$graph-&gt;legend-&gt;SetFont(FF_FONT1,FS_BOLD);</span></pre></td></tr></table></div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.66."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625424"></a><a name="id2625426"></a><p><b>C.66.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> When I rotate text and labels the text is not rotated correctly?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Red Hat 7.2 has a bug in it's TTF libraries (FreeType 2.0.3) that comes with
the distribution. Upgrade to FreeType 2.0.9.</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.67."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625406"></a><a name="id2625445"></a><p><b>C.67.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> When I rotate a paragraph (multi-line) text the paragraph is always left
aligned even though I have specified another alignment. It seems fine for
non-rotated paragraphs though. What is the problem? </p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> This is a limitation with the current implementation. (The reason is that GD
does not support inter-paragraph alignment so all that logic is done within the
libraries string-layout engine. </p><p> At the moment the logic only implements this paragraph alignment for
non-rotated paragraphs.) For rotated paragraphs left-alignment will always be
used regardless of specified paragraph alignment.</p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.68."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625472"></a><a name="id2625474"></a><p><b>C.68.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> I have a huge number of data points and I only want labels (which I want to
specify as text string) and ticks on every n:th data. Can I do this?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Yes. What most users stumble on is the fact that the label array must still
contain data for all the data points even though only every n:th data label is
displayed. </p><p> This means that if your original data array only contains just the display
values it is necessary first to augment the label array with padding spaces to
fill it out. </p><p> It is then possible to use the method
<code class="code">Axis::SetTextTickInterval()</code> to specify that only every n:th
tick+label should be displayed. Something like:
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$graph-&gt;xaxis-&gt;SetTickLabels($datax);
$graph-&gt;xaxis-&gt;SetTextTickInterval( ... );</span></pre></td></tr></table></div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.69."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625497"></a><a name="id2625515"></a><p><b>C.69.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How can I make the labels have a 1000 comma separator?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> The easiest way is to use the PHP built-in function
"<code class="code">number_format()</code>" as a callback (see php manual. <code class="uri"><a class="uri" href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.number-format.php" target="_top">number_format()</a></code>)</p><p>For example, to have the line plot display values using this format first
setup and install the callback function as: </p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
</pre></td><td class="hl-main" valign="top"><pre><span class="hl-code">$lineplot-&gt;value-&gt;SetFormatCallback(&quot;number_format&quot;);</span></pre></td></tr></table></div><p> If you instead want the Y-axis label to use this kind of formatting install
the callback using </p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
</pre></td><td class="hl-main" valign="top"><pre><span class="hl-code">$graph-&gt;yaxis-&gt;SetLabelFormatCallback(&quot;number_format&quot;);</span></pre></td></tr></table></div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.70."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625536"></a><a name="id2625562"></a><p><b>C.70.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> The Y2 axis is no longer positioned at the right side of the graph</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> This will happen after that You have manually specified the sclae and/or the
tick spacing. If the user manipulates the default scale the library defaults to
setting the position of the Y2 axis to the 0 X-position. It is easy to re-adjust
the Y2 axis position by calling SetPos() as the following code snippet
demonstrates
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$graph-&gt;y2axis-&gt;SetTitleSide('right');</span></pre></td></tr></table></div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.71."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625573"></a><a name="id2625587"></a><p><b>C.71.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How can I include several graphs in the same image?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> This can be solved by a bit of extra GD code since the library by default do
not directly support this functionality. The easiest way to solve this is to
manually create a big enough empty graph with plain GD commands. Then get the
image handles from the Stroke() methods in the graphs that should be included.
It is then possible to use these handles together with the GD copy command and
copy the individual graphs to the previously created empty large GD image. </p><p> This is illustrated in the following code snippet. In the example below we
assume that graph1 is the same size as the final combined graph we would like to
create. This way our combined graph get a background and color as specified in
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// ...... create graph 1 here.......
$handle1 = $graph1-&gt;Stroke( _IMG_HANDLER);
// ...... create graph 2 here.......
$handle2 = $graph2-&gt;Stroke( _IMG_HANDLER);
// ...... create graph 3 here.......
$handle3 = $graph3-&gt;Stroke( _IMG_HANDLER);
// Now create the &quot;melting graph&quot; which should contain all three graphs
// $WIDTH1 and $HEIGHT1 are width and height of graph 1 ($handle1)
// $WIDTH2 and $HEIGHT2 are width and height of graph 2 ($handle2)
// $WIDTH3 and $HEIGHT3 are width and height of graph 3 ($handle3)
// $x2,$x3 and $y2,$y3 shift from top left of global graph (ie position of
// graph2 and graph3 in global graph)
$image = imagecreatetruecolor($WIDTH1,$HEIGHT1);
imagecopy($image, $handle1,0, 0, 0, 0, $WIDTH1,$HEIGHT1);
imagecopy($image, $handle1,$x1,$y1,0,0,$WIDTH2,$HEIGHT2);
imagecopy($image, $handle1,$x2,$y2,0,0,$WIDTH3,$HEIGHT3);
// Stream the result back as a PNG
image header(&quot;Content-type: image/png&quot;);
imagepng ($image);</span></pre></td></tr></table></div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.72."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625627"></a><a name="id2625629"></a><p><b>C.72.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How can I have an exploded slice with 3D pie plots?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Use either <code class="code">Pi3DPLot::ExplodeSlice()</code> or
<code class="code">Pie3DPlot::Explode()</code>
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<tr class="question" title="C.73."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625654"></a><a name="id2625656"></a><p><b>C.73.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How can I display values for each slice close to the pie?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Use the method <code class="code">PiePlot::value::Show()</code></p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.74."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625667"></a><a name="id2625678"></a><p><b>C.74.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How can I change between percentage and absolute values for pie slices?
</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Use <code class="code">PiePlot::SetValueType($aType)</code> where <code class="code">$aType</code> is
either <code class="code">PIE_VALUE_ABS</code> or <code class="code">PIE_VALUE_PERCENTAGE</code>. To
hide/show values on the pie you access the value property of the plot (just like
in line plots) If you want some special format of the string you also need to
specify a format string. By default just a number gets printed. If you (for
example) want percent with a "%" sign you should use a format string like "%d%%"
(assuming you just want to display whole numbers)
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$mypieplot-&gt;value-&gt;Show(); // Defaults to TRUE
$mypieplot-&gt;SetValueType(PIE_VALUE_PERCENTAGE);</span></pre></td></tr></table></div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.75."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625719"></a><a name="id2625721"></a><p><b>C.75.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Can I display the actual value as labels on the pie bar instead of the
percentage?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Yes, use
</p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
</pre></td><td class="hl-main" valign="top"><pre><span class="hl-code">$pieplot-&gt;SetLabelType(PIE_LABEL_ABS);</span></pre></td></tr></table></div><p> and
make sure labels are not hidden. </p></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.76."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625742"></a><a name="id2625744"></a><p><b>C.76.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> How can I adust the start angle of the first slice?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> Use </p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
</pre></td><td class="hl-main" valign="top"><pre><span class="hl-code">$pieplot-&gt;SetStartAngle(45);</span></pre></td></tr></table></div></td></tr>
<tr class="question" title="C.77."><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="id2625757"></a><a name="id2625764"></a><p><b>C.77.</b></p></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> When I use IE v5 or v6 I can only save the generated graph image in the
browser as a BMP file even if it was generated as a JPEG or PNG encoded
image?</p></td></tr>
<tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> This is a bug in the way IE handles HTTP headers. By default the library
sends no-cache headers to instruct the browser to always make a HTTP request to
the server. This is necessary since graph scripts normally have the same name
but the graphs may change over time and we don't want the browser to be fooled
by thinking it has already fetched the graph before. </p><p> The only known workaround is to tell the library not to send back any
no-cache headers as illustrated below. </p><div class="hl-main"><table class="hl-table" width="100%"><tr><td class="hl-gutter" align="right" valign="top"><pre>1
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</pre></td><td class="hl-main" valign="top"><pre><span class="hl-code">$graph-&gt;img-&gt;SetExpired(false);
$graph-&gt;Stroke();</span></pre></td></tr></table></div><p> The <code class="code">SetExpired(false)</code> call instructs the library to not send
back any has-expired headers.</p></td></tr>
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