Gchart: A full Introduction to jquery components based on Google Chart API--Getting Started
Gchart is a jquery component based on the Google Chart API . Using Gchart makes it easy to generate powerful graphs and reports. Based on the Google Chart interface Gchart, has a simple, convenient, powerful, sufficient, easy to use the characteristics. "Gchart: Google chart interface components based on jquery" series of articles will take you into the gchart of the reporting world.
Let's explain this clumsy headline.
Google Chart API:
Google Chart API is a Google-provided API that can generate a variety of graphs. Depending on your needs, the Google chart API will return a picture in PNG format to respond to a URL. The Google chart API can generate multiple types of pictures, including line, bar, and pie charts. You can specify properties for each type of picture, such as size, color, and label.
The above is copied Google Chart API official website, according to Chinese listening habits of the word is: Google Chart API is a special cock interface, the need for the report you want to go inside a plug, he can give you a PNG picture, this PNG image is the report you want!
The XX component based on jquery :
In a way: a buddy, wrote a JavaScript component, but this guy is a bit lazy, he didn't want to get an element to document.getElementById, so he used a JavaScript base library--jquery. Instead of trying to solve some of the clutter of JavaScript problems like browser compatibility, he focused on the logic of the components he was going to implement. Of course, there are a lot of other benefits to using jquery. In short, if you want to use this buddy's JavaScript component, first introduce jquery as a JavaScript base.
Gchart:
As it says, a buddy wants to write a JavaScript component that is designed to make it easier and easier for you to invoke Google's chart API to generate a variety of graphs.
In short Gchart this thing, the front is used by others jquery, followed by someone else Google Chart API. However, you do not underestimate it, can be zoned complex for simple, zoned decay for the magic, but also a talent. And our "Gchart: the Google Chart interface component based on jquery" series articles, is to read it.