VCL for PHP Charting components - Introduction

Some time ago I found these nice flash charting library:

http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart-2/

So it was a no-brainer to write the components to wrap that functionality so it can be used in Delphi for PHP.

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Here you can find a demo application:

http://www.qadram.com/vcl4php/samples/OpenChart/basic/index.php

To see the source for that demo, click here:

http://www.qadram.com/vcl4php/samples/OpenChart/basic/index.phps

On the next few days, I will post some more articles showing how easy is to write these components and integrate them into Delphi for PHP.

The articles will show:

• Planning
• Add persistent properties, like Font or your own ones for the chart axis
• Array properties and use the built-in property editors
• Write your own property editor in Delphi for Windows
• How to use events on your property editor
• How to add get design information from your property editor
• Javascript events
• Make your component work correctly on design-time
• Use DataSource properties
• Write a component that process a custom request