New Address - fahad19.com

Posted by Fahad Ibnay Heylaal at 4:55 AM . Thursday, September 11, 2008
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Hey folks!
I have moved my blog to a top level domain now. From now on, you will see my posts at:

http://fahad19.com

I will be posting more about my open source CMS Croogo and the CakePHP MVC framework.

Thanks for everyone's support.

Create charts with Google Charts API on the fly

Posted by Fahad Ibnay Heylaal at 12:25 AM . Monday, September 1, 2008
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Google is always very well equipped when it comes to APIs. I found out about their Charts API today and want to let you all know how to use it. Its not very difficult - just like placing an image tag in your HTML document.

3D pie chart
For example, you want to have a 3D pie chart with two segments (one is 30% and the other is 70%). So, this will be the url for that graph: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=t:70,30&chs=300x100&chl=Segment1|Segment2

And here comes the image output (generated by Google Charts!):


You can find out more about it here: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/