Question

Does anyone know of a high quality PHP based graph library that I can use I have already looked at pchart (http://pchart.sourceforge.net/). PChart produces pixelated line graphs and does not really have any great 3D graphs? Also I would rather not use Java because of the client side aspect.

Answer 1

I have looked through all of the options outlined in the comment posted from Mike and below is my breakdown.

Charts Packages Found and my Comments:

http://www.anychart.com/products/anychart/gallery/ – Very expensive $4999 for any use license

http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/ – Flash based but very cool and free
http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart-2/ – This is the second version of above having moved to actionscript 3.0

http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ – Google chart API

http://pchart.sourceforge.net/index.php – pChart I have already used and it is the rendering that is an issue

http://www.advsofteng.com/ – Looked at yesterday and not free

http://www.amcharts.com/ – Flash based charts and not free

http://www.peters1.dk/webtools/php/lagkage.php?sprog=en – Raw PHP using the GD package in Linux but rendering is not good

http://www.fusioncharts.com/Gallery/Category.asp?Column3D – Flash based play 8 or above and not free but very nice

http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/ – Java based is free but rendering is no better then pChart

I think we may have a winner! http://ezcomponents.org/docs/api/trunk/Graph_gallery.html

This seems to be an API but a very good one with lots of other stuff they do as well.