Ask HN: Good looking PHP graphing library?

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Hi all,

I am looking for a PHP library that will let me create good looking charts. Specifically I'm after 3D style bar charts. I've found a few PHP libraries but the outputs are pretty ghetto looking.

Or.. is there an alternate to this? I need to be able to generate image files, not just display the charts.

Many thanks!

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For a project I'm working on right now, we're using HighCharts[0] which makes use of SVG. There's a ton of examples of how it works, so I won't delve into that, but I'm thinking you could probably do this by making use of HighCharts like you normally would, but using output buffering [1] and headers [2]

[0] - http://www.highcharts.com

[1] - http://php.net/manual/en/function.ob-start.php

[2] - http://devzone.zend.com/article/1269

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