FusionCharts Plugin for CakePHP

Thank you for trying out FusionCharts plugin for CakePHP!

Please note that this is still a work-in-progress plugin, with only the basic functionality to reproduce the charts available in the official FC Free zip file. More features will be added and the existing ones will be improved as you people start to complain.

Please send your comments and suggestions to neutrinocms[at]gmail.com

Usage

Deploy the plugin in your app/Plugin/FusionCharts directory. If you're using Git, run this while in your app folder:

git submodule add git://github.com/lecterror/cakephp-fusion-charts-plugin.git Plugin/FusionCharts
git submodule init
git submodule update

Or visit http://github.com/lecterror/cakephp-fusion-charts-plugin and download the plugin manually to your app/Plugin/FusionCharts/ folder.

Since CakePHP 2.0 it is necessary to activate the plugin in your application. To do so, edit app/Config/bootstrap.php and add the line CakePlugin::load('FusionCharts'); at the bottom.

You're done. Check the demo charts included in the plugin to see how to generate individual chart types. Open the demos in your browser:

[your app root]/fusion_charts/fusion_charts_demo

The demos should also be available at my homepage, but these are not updated as they are still using the 0.1 version which is stuck with CakePHP 1.2.x:

http://lecterror.com/demos/fusion_charts

Important

If you're using CakePHP 1.3.x, you should use the 1.3.x series of the plugin. Check out the GitHub repository for the latest tag in the 1.3.x series.

If you're using CakePHP 1.2.x, check this page for additional info:

http://lecterror.com/articles/view/fusioncharts-plugin-for-cakephp-1

Some people have reported that this plugin also works with the paid version of FusionCharts, but I don't have a license so I can't confirm it.

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute, clone the source on GitHub, make your changes and send me a pull request. If you don't know how to fix the issue or you're too lazy to do it, create a ticket and we'll see what happens next.

Important: If you're sending a patch, follow the coding style! If you don't, there is a great chance I won't accept it. For example:

// bad
function drink() {
	return false;
}

// good
function drink()
{
	return true;
}

Credits

Obviously, this plugin is using FusionCharts Free, freely available from http://www.fusioncharts.com/

Thanks to Pallav Nadhani from InfoSoft Global for the support during development. Thanks to destinydriven (https://github.com/destinydriven) for doing the plugin migration from CakePHP 1.3.x to 2.x.

Licence

Multi-licensed under:

• MPL http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html
• LGPL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html
• GPL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html