SWF Chart

I have experienced on populate data on chart by using swiff chart; Globfx product with PHP and coldfusion. But swiff chart is pricey. Today I found Open flash Chart.

Open Flash Chart, is open source. It is free to use. Why is it free? here is the excerpt from the website:

'Once upon a time I had to deal with a company who sell flash charting
components, their component had a bug that I needed fixing, so I emailed them
about it asking when it'd be fixed. (Remember that I had paid real money for
this software.) They were so incompetent, rude and obnoxious that after three or
four weeks of emails I thought to myself "I could learn Flash and Actionscript
and write my own charting component, release it as Open Source, host it on
sourceforge and build up a community of helpful coders faster than they can fix
a single bug." And that is what I did. And that is why it is free. I guess the
moral of the lesson is: don't piss off your customers.'

How to pass URL Parameter to Flash

1. Learn what is FlashVars


2. Add this code to your html when adding Flash object
3. Open Flash file (*.fla)


4. Example use of query-string



on (press)
{
getURL("page.php?catID="+_root.catID+"&state=KELANTAN&subcatID="+_root.subcatID);
}



5. catID was appended on the URL string