You can use server-side code to acquire data to populate your chart. Your server-side code can load a local file, query a database, or get the data in some other way. The following PHP example demonstrates reading chart data from a local text file when a page is requested. You can copy these files to your own server, if it supports PHP.
Note: This sample requires jQuery version 1.6.2 or later.
exampleUsingPHP.html file
This is the file that the user browses to. The drawChart() function calls the jQuery ajax() function to send a query to a URL and get back a JSON string. The URL here is of the local getData.php file. The returned data is actually a DataTable defined in the local sampleData.json file. This DataTable is used to populate a pie chart, which is then rendered on the page.
<html>
<head>
<!--Load the AJAX API-->
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.gstatic.com/charts/loader.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
// Load the Visualization API and the piechart package.
google.charts.load('current', {'packages':['corechart']});
// Set a callback to run when the Google Visualization API is loaded.
google.charts.setOnLoadCallback(drawChart);
function drawChart() {
var jsonData = $.ajax({
url: "getData.php",
dataType: "json",
async: false
}).responseText;
// Create our data table out of JSON data loaded from server.
var data = new google.visualization.DataTable(jsonData);
// Instantiate and draw our chart, passing in some options.
var chart = new google.visualization.PieChart(document.getElementById('chart_div'));
chart.draw(data, {width: 400, height: 240});
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<!--Div that will hold the pie chart-->
<div id="chart_div"></div>
</body>
</html>
getData.php File
When this file receives a request, it returns a copy of the local sampleData.json file.
<?php
// This is just an example of reading server side data and sending it to the client.
// It reads a json formatted text file and outputs it.
$string = file_get_contents("sampleData.json");
echo $string;
// Instead you can query your database and parse into JSON etc etc
?>
sampleData.json File
A JSON version of a small DataTable.
{
"cols": [
{"id":"","label":"Topping","pattern":"","type":"string"},
{"id":"","label":"Slices","pattern":"","type":"number"}
],
"rows": [
{"c":[{"v":"Mushrooms","f":null},{"v":3,"f":null}]},
{"c":[{"v":"Onions","f":null},{"v":1,"f":null}]},
{"c":[{"v":"Olives","f":null},{"v":1,"f":null}]},
{"c":[{"v":"Zucchini","f":null},{"v":1,"f":null}]},
{"c":[{"v":"Pepperoni","f":null},{"v":2,"f":null}]}
]
}
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