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Open Flash Charts is open source. So you get the source code of the chart to keep, this means that if you find bugs and need to fix them, you can. Or if you are worried that this website may dissapear, even if it does (don’t worry, it won’t), you have the code and can hire a flash programmer to fix any problems you have. Don’t forget to clear your browser cache when you have downloaded the Open Flash Chart files. This will remove any cruft that may cause you problems. Open Flash Chart Licence:Open Flash Chart is released under the GNU General Public License. For a bit more info on copyleft and don’t forget to check out Richard Stallmans, his ideals behind Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism. And finally the GPL FAQ, should answer all your questions on what you can and can not do with the source. And lets face it, with it licenced under GNU GPL you can do a lot with it. Commercial ventures may be interested in this question and answer. PHP classes Licence:The PHP classes are released under the GNU Lesser General Public License. What does the LGPL mean? Well, lets start with the GPL. A commercial product may interact with a GPL product ‘at arms length’, this means you can not include GPL libraries in your code. Open Flash Chart is a compiled flash object which communicates with the world by downloading a data file. This is ‘at arms length’ and means you can use it in a commercial product, so long as you inform your users that Open Flash Chart is GPL and provide access (e.g. a link) to the source code. The LGPL allows you to include libraries of code into your commercial product. That is why I chose the LGPL for the PHP libraries. Price:Don’t worry, Open flash Chart is free 🙂 but in return for all the hard work the development team have put into the code please, please take time to return the favor by doing one of the following:
Thanks! What is in the .zip file?In the .zip file is the flash movie (which displays the chart) and the PHP library which is used in all the examples on this site. You also get the full source code for Open Flash Chart, these are the .fla files. I suggest you ignore them unless you are extremely curious. To use Open Flash Chart upload the open-flash-chart.swf to your website. Then upload the PHP library folder to your website. Make sure all the permissions are set to allow the PHP to run OK. Then take a look at the examples on this site and make your own wonderful charts! Good luck! If you like the charts, don’t forget to buy advertising space. The next version of Open Flash Chart is in alpha. But we need your help to find bugs and hack the libraries. Help us get it released faster! Open Flash Chart 2 alpha Version 1.9.7 (28th Jan, 2008)Changes since 1.9.5
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Download the Open Flash Chart version 1.9.7 zip file, that includes Open Flash Chart, the PHP, Ruby, Perl, Python, .NET and Java classes and the Flash source code. Version 1.9.6 (8th Dec, 2007)Changes since 1.9.5This has a new chart:
The PHP library has changed a little, check out the examples to see the code changes. Commas now work. The PHP library will output either data files or a bunch of Javascript. There are new Perl and Java libraries in this release. Big thanks to:
Download the Open Flash Chart version 1.9.6 zip file, that includes Open Flash Chart, the PHP, Perl, Python, .NET and Java classes and the Flash source code. If the above link does not workPlease use the sourceforge link above. It saves bandwidth on my site and it also counts the number of downloads which is very useful. But if for some reason it is not working you can get the downlaod here: Open Flash Chart version 1.9.6. Version 1.9.5Changes since 1.9.4This has some new charts:
The new chart types do not have PHP libraries written yet. I have asked a few people to help me out and I will be coding too 🙂 I have also given the pie charts some love, they now re-size themselves to make the most of the space available. The PIE used to be 60% and the labels just had to fit in, sometimes they fell off the chart area, and other times the chart had big blank areas. Now the PIE chart re-sizes its self so everything is ‘just right’ ™ 😉 We also have some .NET libraries which I AM SO HAPPY ABOUT!! This was the last major platform that we didn’t support – so thanks to Raghunath T. (light .NET library) and Keith J. Kikta (big C# library). Big thanks to:
Download the Open Flash Chart version 1.9.5 zip file, that includes Open Flash Chart, the PHP, Perl and Python classes and the Flash source code. If the above link does not workPlease use the sourceforge link above. It saves bandwidth on my site and it also counts the number of downloads which is very useful. But if for some reason it is not working you can get the downlaod here: Open Flash Chart version 1.9.5. Version 1.9.4Changes since 1.9.3The AJAX examples are still broken 🙂 ooops.
Thanks to everyone who emailed bug reports. Email me if you want a link here. I am too tired to go through all my eamils looking for names, sites and amazing bug reports 🙂 I can’t thank you all enough!Download the Open Flash Chart version 1.9.4 zip file, that includes Open Flash Chart, the PHP, Perl and Python classes and the Flash source code. If the above link does not workPlease use the sourceforge link above. It saves bandwidth on my site and it also counts the number of downloads which is very useful. But if for some reason it is not working you can get the downlaod here: Open Flash Chart version 1.9.4. Version 1.9.3Changes since 1.9.2I have broken the AJAX examples 🙁 this is because of the swfobject. I will try to fix these in the next release. If anyone can help I’d appreciate it 🙂 thanks.
Download the Open Flash Chart version 1.9.3 zip file, that includes Open Flash Chart, the PHP, Perl and Python classes and the Flash source code. If the above link does not workPlease use the sourceforge link above. It saves bandwidth on my site and it also counts the number of downloads which is very useful. But if for some reason it is not working you can get the downlaod here: Open Flash Chart version 1.9.3. Version 1.9.2Changes since 1.9.1
Download the Open Flash Chart version 1.9.2 zip file, that includes Open Flash Chart, the PHP, Perl and Python classes and the Flash source code. If the above link does not workPlease use the sourceforge link above. It saves bandwidth on my site and it also counts the number of downloads which is very useful. But if for some reason it is not working you can get the downlaod here: Open Flash Chart version 1.9.2. Version 1.9.1Changes since 1.9Check out how the title is now CSS styled. Big update. Tons of great people helped me out. I am too tired to write now. More tomorrow. Expect another release very soon, this is a developer test release so we can squash the bugs 🙂 Download the Open Flash Chart version 1.9.1 zip file, that includes Open Flash Chart, the PHP, Perl and Python classes and the Flash source code. If the above link does not workget it here Open Flash Chart version 1.9.1. Version 1.9Changes since 1.8Hugo, of OpenMRS fame took our code and hacked in some beautiful pie charts! W00t! The man is a genius! Yay! Added:
Download the Open Flash Chart version 1.9 zip file, that includes Open Flash Chart, the PHP classes and the Flash source code. Version 1.8Changes since 1.7NetVicious is a code demon! He has added lots of functionality for 1.8, and his code is also very nice to read and easy to merge. Added:
Download the Open Flash Chart version 1.8 zip file, that includes Open Flash Chart, the PHP classes and the Flash source code. Version 1.7Changes since 1.6Huge changes to the code to allow resizing of the chart (width = %), this also allowed me to refactor the code into lots of descrete classes (which is a good thing 🙂 Added:
Download the Open Flash Chart version 1.7 zip file, that includes Open Flash Chart, the PHP classes and the Flash source code. Version 1.6Changes since 1.5Added:
Download the Open Flash Chart version 1.6 zip file, that includes Open Flash Chart, the PHP classes and the Flash source code. Version 1.5Changes since 1.4Added:
Download the Open Flash Chart version 1.5 zip file, that includes Open Flash Chart, the PHP classes and the Flash source code. Version 1.4Changes since 1.3Added:
Download the Open Flash Chart version 1.4 zip file, that includes Open Flash Chart, the PHP classes and the Flash source code. Version 1.3Changes since 1.2Added new chart type: bar chart. Can have multiple bars (grouped together) for each X axis point. Can mix line and bars in the same chart. Download the Open Flash Chart version 1.3 zip file, that includes Open Flash Chart, the PHP classes and the Flash source code. Version 1.2Changes since 1.1Line graphs that have the ‘dot’ style now have tooltips. The dot also grows on when the mouse hovers over it, to provide some feedback to the user. Download the Open Flash Chart version 1.2 zip file, that includes Open Flash Chart, the PHP classes and the Flash source code. Version 1.1Changes since 1.0You can now add many sets of data to the graph. Added a new line style (dots) and fixed some bugs. Download the Open Flash Chart version 1.1 zip file, that includes Open Flash Chart, the PHP classes and the Flash source code. Version 1.0Download the Open Flash Chart version 1.0 zip file, that includes Open Flash Chart, the PHP classes and the Flash source code. |
Info: Open Flash Chart 2 is out. Version 1.x and these pages will never disappear and the charts will continue working forever, but further development on 1.x has stopped. Take a look at version 2 here Open Flash Chart 2.