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PHPlot is a PHP class for on-the-fly graphs generation. It was started by
Afan Ottenheimer in 2000 as an Open Source project, and is developed on
<a class="ulink" href="http://sourceforge.net" target="_top">SourceForge</a>.
It is distributed<a href="#ftn.idp1372818012" class="footnote" id="idp1372818012"><sup class="footnote">[1]</sup></a> under the terms of the
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.php" target="_top">GNU Lesser
General Public License</a> version 2.1.
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Here are some of the features in PHPlot:
</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p>
Creates many graph types, including line plots, point plots, bar charts, and
pie charts, also data/error graphs.
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Draws 3-D shading of pie charts and bar graphs.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Customizable line color, width, solid or dashed patterns.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Flexible labels, tick marks, axes, titles, legend, grid lines.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
TrueType fonts are supported, but not required.
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Use linear or logarithmic axes.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Image output uses the GD Library, with supported formats including PNG, GIF,
and JPEG.
</p></li></ul></div><p>
</p><p>
PHPlot's home page is at
<a class="ulink" href="http://phplot.sourceforge.net/" target="_top">http://phplot.sourceforge.net</a>,
and project development takes place at
<a class="ulink" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplot/" target="_top">
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplot/</a>.
</p><div class="footnotes"><br /><hr style="width:100; text-align:left;margin-left: 0" /><div id="ftn.idp1372818012" class="footnote"><p><a href="#idp1372818012" class="para"><sup class="para">[1] </sup></a>
Versions prior to PHPlot-5.0.7 were distributed under the GPL and PHP
licenses.
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