4 years ago

Category: Laravel, PHP, MySQL, nodejs, javascript

When using a charting library like AnyChart, which makes visualizing data so quick and easy, often the most challenging step for beginners is loading data. The data may differ in many ways including the number of features in the dataset, what type these features may be, the format of the data, and how the data is stored.

Today we will focus on using PHP to handle this task for us when our data is stored in MySQL.

This is easily done with the following code: The final step in our PHP script is to close the connection we have with our server.

We can do this with the following script: Once that is done we simply refer to our PHP script when loading the data.