Part 1 – Initial desires & decisions
A short while ago one of the clients I work with expressed a desire to display data on their website. The basic idea was to show weekly data over a yearly period. Nothing too complicated in terms of presentation. This information was to be pulled off a MySQL server. This meant that the method had to allow a dynamic set of data to be displayed.
I decided to use the Google Charts Tool to create my custom chart. It allows a significant amount of customisation and is very logical to integrate into your website. The data is displayed as an image, and this means that it is robust and cross-browser compatible.