A friend of mine needs to present some charts etc (from data retrieved from a database) on his website. He's thinking of using flash, but I don't think it's a good idea because of loading time etc.

He's open to suggestions as long as the result is aesthetically pleasing .

How would you go about doing this - creating a dynamic page which queries a database and generates pretty charts.

He's using IIS/ASP.NET/SQL

4/5/2007 4:06:24 PM

i'm sure it's doable in asp.net. Thta's how the Stats charts are done i think
http://thewolfweb.com/stats.aspx

4/5/2007 4:29:17 PM

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=asp.net+dynamic+charts

4/5/2007 4:30:10 PM

shit


dont do it in flash


seriously



that's like using a sledgehammer to build a bookshelf

4/5/2007 6:40:43 PM

http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/

uses php

4/5/2007 6:48:23 PM

^^ what are you kidding? this could be done with flash and still be very lightweight. though if he's using asp.net that isn't really a consideration anyways

[Edited on April 5, 2007 at 7:06 PM. Reason : nthx]

4/5/2007 7:06:06 PM

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"though if he's using asp.net that isn't really a consideration anyways"

4/5/2007 9:01:25 PM

wow, looks like the Google Ads really do work....

this was at the top of the page last a minute ago

http://www.dotnetcharting.com/?gaw

4/5/2007 9:03:12 PM

this can be done very easily through php

http://www.google.com/search?q=php+random+image

4/5/2007 9:14:28 PM

You would want to use Flex rather than Flash.

4/5/2007 10:36:05 PM

If ASP.NET is anything like older versions, you can draw the image in memory using drawing APIs and then send the image to the client.

4/5/2007 11:25:13 PM

the GD package is a pretty popular open source one (php module should be available), worth the try

4/6/2007 3:39:49 PM

I looked up GD - the examples that I saw were very plain looking. Do you have any idea how to generate more "beautiful" graphs, such as this :-



This is generated using http://nubyonrails.com/pages/gruff but my friend's server does not have Ruby support .

4/7/2007 8:57:40 PM

http://www.maani.us/charts/index.php?menu=Introduction

4/7/2007 9:35:34 PM

you can generate "beautiful" graphs with ANY package, ASP or PHP. It's all about your development skills.

BTW, I LOVE .net charting. I used it for some print graphs last semester, it makes beautiful Aqua-esque graphics

4/7/2007 9:40:20 PM

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"I looked up GD - the examples that I saw were very plain looking. Do you have any idea how to generate more "beautiful" graphs, such as this :-["

This is why I hate NCSU's computer science program.

[Edited on April 7, 2007 at 9:51 PM. Reason : although I guess I don't know if this guy is in the CS program]

4/7/2007 9:45:51 PM

pink? yuck. Yeah don't do it flash. You can do it, but you'll spend 2x more time to figure shit out.

4/7/2007 10:26:47 PM

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"I looked up GD - the examples that I saw were very plain looking. Do you have any idea how to generate more "beautiful" graphs, such as this :-"

Look harder, i promise it works wonders

4/7/2007 10:36:31 PM

http://www.advsofteng.com/
http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/features_gallery.php
etc.

4/7/2007 11:16:20 PM

can do it in AJAX
http://www.ejschart.com

4/10/2007 9:22:28 AM

^ i got a virtual memory too low warning about 10 seconds into playing with that demo

4/10/2007 9:46:24 AM