Pure PHP

Overview #

What we means by pure PHP is that you don't use any kind of framework, you only need to draw charts inside a single php file.

Usage #

Load library #

First things first, you will need to load KoolRepport's library. If you install KoolReport manually with downloading and copying koolreport folder into your app, you will need to require the library before you can use:

<?php
require_once "/path/to/koolreport/core/autoload.php";

Use any widgets #

Now you can use any widget of KoolReport inside your php file:

index.php

<?php
    require_once "/path/to/koolreport/core/autoload.php";
    use \koolreport\widgets\koolphp\Table;
    use \koolreport\widgets\google\ColumnChart;

    $data = array(
        array("category"=>"Books","sale"=>32000,"cost"=>20000,"profit"=>12000),
        array("category"=>"Accessories","sale"=>43000,"cost"=>36000,"profit"=>7000),
        array("category"=>"Phones","sale"=>54000,"cost"=>39000,"profit"=>15000),
        array("category"=>"Movies","sale"=>23000,"cost"=>18000,"profit"=>5000),
        array("category"=>"Others","sale"=>12000,"cost"=>6000,"profit"=>6000)
    );
?>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>KoolReport's Widgets</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    <body>
        <?php 
        Table::create(array(
            "dataSource"=>$data
        ));
        ?>
        <?php 
        ColumnChart::create(array(
            "dataSource"=>$data
        ));
        ?>
    </body>
</html>

So if you have data available, just feed them to KoolReport's widget to visualize like above.

With database #

There is convenient way to visualize your data from database. Here is an example:

<?php
    require_once "/path/to/koolreport/core/autoload.php";
    use \koolreport\datasources\PdoDataSource;
    use \koolreport\widgets\google\ColumnChart;
    $connection = array(
        "connectionString"=>"mysql:host=localhost;dbname=sales",
        "username"=>"root",
        "password"=>"",
        "charset"=>"utf8"
    );
?>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>KoolReport's Widgets</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    <body>
        <?php 
        ColumnChart::create(array(
            "dataSource"=>(new PdoDataSource($connection))->query("
                SELECT customerName,sum(amount) as total
                FROM orders
                GROUP BY customerName
            ")
        ));
        ?>
    </body>
</html>

Code explanation:

$connection contains the settings to connect to your database
In this example we use PdoDataSource as medium to connect to your data.
As you can see in the "dataSource" of ColumnChart, we create new instance of PdoDataSource with $connection settings and then followed with the SQL query.

This is very convenient way to connect, query and visualize your data. KoolReport has done almost all hard work for you.

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