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Support => Wordpress Plugins => Topic started by: doug@dyerware.com on August 12, 2011, 12:44:23 AM

Title: Easy Chart Builder 2.0 beta (updated B3)
Post by: doug@dyerware.com on August 12, 2011, 12:44:23 AM
I know folks are frustrated it has not been updated recently.  2.0 completely redoes the rendering and javascript.  Charts are dynamic, as the mouse rolls over key areas they will highlight.

There will be more options to tailor axis titles and legend and whatnot, but some features are going away.

I think everyone will like the outcome much better.  Your pages will not break as the old tags will remain identifiable but may not do anything. 

Once things are settled and more is in place, will follow up on this post.

Update
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beta 3 drop can be found here for those that want to use it.
http://www.dyerware.com/beta/ECB2b3.zip (http://www.dyerware.com/beta/ECB2b3.zip)

To install it, simply replace the easy-chart-builder.php in the plugin folder with the one provided in the zip file above.

New: importsql argument to specify an SQL Table to drive the chart.  Use the valuenames argument to specify the column name in the table for the values in the value axis.  Use the groupnames argument to list columns you want in the chart.

Below are two examples everyone can do as they are simple plots of your wordpress tables.  Note only one column of the table in these simple demos is plotted:
[easychart type="line" importsql="wp_posts" valuenames="post_date" groupnames="comment_count"]
[easychart type="horizbar" importsql="wp_links" valuenames="link_name" groupnames="link_rating"]

If you create a custom table, you can do a lot of things.  For example if you enter the tutorial chart found on the ECB document page, and you listed the tests (3D, E-Learning, etc) under the column "tests", you could access it as such:
[easychart type="horizbar" importsql="testchart" valuenames="tests" groupnames="AMD Phenom X4 9950,Intel Core i7 940"]

New: importcsv argument to specify a csv file to drive the chart: importcsv="yourfile.csv"
The beta has an example csv file for you to explore the format.  Specify the full path or plop it in your wordpress root folder.

Change: Only Pie, Line, horizbar|stacked, vertbar|stacked are supported.  Overlapped, radar, and scatter are not implemented.  Scatter will eventually be added.

Bugs: The data table is screwy and will likely be fired in favor of the original one.
Title: Re: Easy Chart Builder 2.0 beta (updated)
Post by: doug@dyerware.com on September 02, 2011, 09:03:49 PM
Update beta 2:
fixes pie charts
Title: Re: Easy Chart Builder 2.0 beta (updated B3)
Post by: doug@dyerware.com on September 05, 2011, 11:31:28 PM
Update beta 3:
SQL Import feature.
Title: Re: Easy Chart Builder 2.0 beta (updated B3)
Post by: xtremetoonz on December 08, 2011, 08:57:15 PM
Will 2.X support more than 12 groups? I have a particular need for 14. Thank you!
Title: Re: Easy Chart Builder 2.0 beta (updated B3)
Post by: keeley on December 12, 2011, 05:29:09 PM
Loving the new charts. Any chance the currency will work with the roll overs on the charts? Right now there are no commas or dollar signs. Thanks much.
Title: Re: Easy Chart Builder 2.0 beta (updated B3)
Post by: reblerich on April 26, 2012, 09:07:53 AM
Im struggling a little with  this plugin, im not sure where my shortcode is wrong, can anyone help please?


[easychart type="pie" height="200" width="200" title="SLA Hits" groupnames="Critical Hits, Disaster Recovery, Uptime" groupcolors="FF00FF, 005599, 229944" valuenames="SLA, SLA2, SLA3" groupXvalues="30, 20, 50"]
Title: Re: Easy Chart Builder 2.0 beta (updated B3)
Post by: doug@dyerware.com on April 29, 2012, 01:35:09 AM
Im struggling a little with  this plugin, im not sure where my shortcode is wrong, can anyone help please?


[easychart type="pie" height="200" width="200" title="SLA Hits" groupnames="Critical Hits, Disaster Recovery, Uptime" groupcolors="FF00FF, 005599, 229944" valuenames="SLA, SLA2, SLA3" groupXvalues="30, 20, 50"]

That "X" in groupXvalues should be a number, 1-N , where group1values = list of values for the first guy in your group names list.

Assuming you want one of those values per group (and a pie chart thats a good assumption) try this:
[easychart type="pie" height="200" width="200" title="SLA Hits" groupnames="Critical Hits, Disaster Recovery, Uptime" groupcolors="FF00FF, 005599, 229944" valuenames="SLA, SLA2, SLA3" group1values="30" group2values="20" group3values="50"]
Title: Re: Easy Chart Builder 2.0 beta (updated B3)
Post by: ciiciprian on June 03, 2012, 08:50:37 PM
Hello,

I saw that the current plugin still has problems regarding the negative values insertion

and do you look in future to create the possibility of communication with excel tables?

Thank you for this great application!

Ciprian
Title: Re: Easy Chart Builder 2.0 beta (updated B3)
Post by: doug@dyerware.com on June 03, 2012, 09:22:46 PM
Hello,

I saw that the current plugin still has problems regarding the negative values insertion

and do you look in future to create the possibility of communication with excel tables?

Thank you for this great application!

Ciprian

Sorry Ciprian,

Are you referring to the beta 2.x or the 1.x in the wordpress plugin directory?  2.x will eventually become released, however we are developing new iPhone game and its difficult to find time for the plugins until it finally is birthed :)


-d
Title: Re: Easy Chart Builder 2.0 beta (updated B3)
Post by: ciiciprian on June 09, 2012, 04:07:58 PM
I`m reffering to the last plugin (2x) in comparison with the first one.

Thanks,
Ciprian
Title: Re: Easy Chart Builder 2.0 beta (updated B3)
Post by: tomC on August 25, 2012, 09:06:28 PM
This plug-in looks perfect for a little site I'm putting together, especially working with mysql.

The plugin from wordpress works just fine, but as soon as I install the beta per instructions above no charts appear.  (Tried even using the basic [easychart] shortcode just to test)

The only other plug-in I'm using is "Maintenance Mode" and "WP-Polls".  Using a little bit of javascript, jquery.masonry, and that's all.  Curious if anyone's had issues with these, maybe has some advice...etc.  Perhaps it's the latest version of WP doing this?

Perhaps there's a way using PHP and some loops to generate values on the fly so that I might be able to use the release version?
Title: Re: Easy Chart Builder 2.0 beta (updated B3)
Post by: bluvector on March 05, 2013, 05:11:05 PM
Hello, I saw that you can power the charts with your wordpress mysql.  Is it possible to use an external database to power the charts instead?
Thank you!
Title: Re: Easy Chart Builder 2.0 beta (updated B3)
Post by: doug@dyerware.com on March 05, 2013, 11:48:51 PM
Hello, I saw that you can power the charts with your wordpress mysql.  Is it possible to use an external database to power the charts instead?
Thank you!

I'm not sure but I think it has to be the same dbase.  It can use a csv file however
Title: Re: Easy Chart Builder 2.0 beta (updated B3)
Post by: lobster on March 25, 2013, 03:18:30 PM
First of all thanks for the great plugin.

However, after updated to 2.0 beta, a lot of the features like "grid", "watermark" no longer work?
Also the legend has been moved to the right, prefer it bottom.
Title: Re: Easy Chart Builder 2.0 beta (updated B3)
Post by: doug@dyerware.com on March 25, 2013, 03:35:47 PM
I gotta fix the legend.  My plan is to put all the features in that I can.
Title: Re: Easy Chart Builder 2.0 beta (updated B3)
Post by: lobster on March 25, 2013, 05:28:04 PM
Thanks for the reply.

i tried to use ECB in my php template for wordpress via custom fields but the chart always comes up blank.
 
This is my codes

<?php
$P_1 = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'chart_party_name_1', true);
$P_2 = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'chart_party_name_2', true);
$S_1 = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'party_1_seats_won', true);
$S_2 = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'party_2_seats_won', true);
?>

<?php echo do_shortcode('[easychart type="horizbar" title="SYSMark 2007: AMD v.s. Intel" groupnames="<?php echo $P_1 ; ?>, <?php echo $P_2 ; ?>" valuenames="Votes Won" group1values="<?php echo $S_1 ; ?>" group2values="<?php echo $S_1 ; ?>"]'); ?>


if i paste just the code below in the php, i can see it returns the proper entered values in custom fields.

[easychart type="horizbar" title="SYSMark 2007: AMD v.s. Intel" groupnames="<?php echo $P_1 ; ?>, <?php echo $P_2 ; ?>" valuenames="Votes Won" group1values="<?php echo $S_1 ; ?>" group2values="<?php echo $S_1 ; ?>"]
Title: Easy Chart Builder 2.0 beta (updated B3)
Post by: ravi on March 27, 2013, 11:54:52 AM
First of all thanks for creating nice plugin,

I'm using the version 1.2 and its working nice, i using line chart to show statics of some data,

In line chart, lines are displayed fine if there is more than one record, in case if there is a single data(value names with multiple group names) i cant find a line, but i want to show that also.
kindly help me out..

Thanks in advance 

 
Title: Re: Easy Chart Builder 2.0 beta (updated B3)
Post by: doug@dyerware.com on March 27, 2013, 11:56:25 AM
Sorry guys am falling behind on replying with answers

Ill get cracking this evening, pinky swear
Title: Re: Easy Chart Builder 2.0 beta (updated B3)
Post by: chilegirl12 on March 30, 2013, 07:53:14 PM
I have two questions about the chart builder.

1. Is there a way to change the font family?  I have tried adding it to the custom CSS, etc. but it doesn't seem to work?
2. I am using a bar graph, and it loads fine, but I want the data points to show on the actual graph either above the bars.  Is anyone able to do this?  The bars are great, but I actually need the numbers to show too... It can't be in just the data table; it has to appear on the bar graph itself.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! 
Title: Re: Easy Chart Builder 2.0 beta (updated B3)
Post by: keeley on July 02, 2013, 05:15:22 PM
Hello. I have the version 2 installed and I am getting an error on one page and not another.

http://bcarterfdn.org/print/ i get the error google is not defined.

on http://bcarterfdn.org/background-and-guidelines/ everything works fine. Both pages are loading the same info from the database except that the "print" page is loading all wordpress pages onto one. Any thoughts?