Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Build impressive flash dashboards and charts

Open Flash Chart is a cool open source flash project that allows you to easily embed impressive dashboards and charts into your website or business portal.

This is one of the 3D-bar chart samples:



And a glass bar chart sample:



The data from which to build the charts can be extracted from any data source or database, and saved into an array that is passed to the OFC library to build the chart.
The basic tutorial in the website shows how to integrate the flash chart along with the data file into your page.
Of course you will have to do some tweaks here and there like changing some include paths, renaming some folders... etc. But the cool result is worth the hassle ;)

I will be posting a detailed step-by-step tutorial of how to build and integrate the charts into a PHP5 website once I get some time.

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