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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /><title>2.6. Customization</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="phplotdoc.css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="PHPlot Reference Manual" /><link rel="up" href="starting.html" title="Chapter 2. Getting Started with PHPlot" /><link rel="prev" href="start-multiple.html" title="2.5. Multiple Lines Per Graph" /><link rel="next" href="starting-next.html" title="2.7. What's Next?" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">2.6. Customization</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="start-multiple.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 2. Getting Started with PHPlot</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="starting-next.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="sect1"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="starting-custom"></a>2.6. Customization</h2></div></div></div><p>PHPlot can draw these types of plots:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p>Bars (with optional shadows) and Stacked Bars, both vertical and horizontal</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Lines</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Points (a lot of point shapes are available)</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Linepoints (as you might expect, both points and lines)</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Area and Stacked Area</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Pie (2D or 3D look)</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Thinbarline (sometimes also called impulse), both vertical and horizontal</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Lines, Points, and Linepoints with Error bars</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Squared (steps)</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Bubbles</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Open/High/Low/Close (shows price changes for a stock, for example)</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Boxes (5-number statistical summary)</p></li></ul></div><p></p><p>You specify which type of plot you want with the <a class="xref" href="SetPlotType.html" title="SetPlotType"><span class="refentrytitle">SetPlotType</span></a>function.</p><p>There are many ways we can change the look and feel of the graph.Almost every parameter of the graph, including ticks, grids, and data labels,can be adjusted using PHPlot functions.A categorized list of these functions can be found in <a class="xref" href="functions.html" title="Chapter 6. PHPlot Functions By Category">Chapter 6, <em>PHPlot Functions By Category</em></a>.Each of the functions is described in detail in <a class="xref" href="reference.html" title="PHPlot Function Reference">PHPlot Function Reference</a>.</p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="start-multiple.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="starting.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="starting-next.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">2.5. Multiple Lines Per Graph </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> 2.7. What's Next?</td></tr></table></div></body></html>