Creating a Google Line Chart from MYSQL data

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joseph mutisya

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Sep 1, 2016, 10:24:43 AM9/1/16
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My aim is to create multiple line charts on the same graph using data i pull from mysql database.


I have the code in place but I'm missing a step therefore not getting the output I expect. Here's my code:


<?php
    $results = array('cols' => array (array('label' => 'Date', 'type' => date'),
               array('label' => 'Amount', 'type' => 'number')
               ),
               'rows' => array()
              );

    $query = $db->prepare('SELECT * FROM Claims GROUP BY EXTRACT(MONTH FROM ClaimDate ) , EXTRACT( YEAR FROM ClaimDate ) ');

    $query->execute();
    $rows1 = $query->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);

    foreach($rows1 as $row)
    {
        $ClaimDate = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', $row['ClaimDate'])->format('Y-m-d');

        $dateArr = explode('-', $ClaimDate);
        $year = (int) $dateArr[0];
        $month = (int) $dateArr[1] - 1; 
        $day = (int) $dateArr[2];

        $results['rows'][] = array('c' => array(array('v' => "Date($year, $month, $day)"), array('v' => $row['amount'])
        ));
    }
    $json = json_encode($results, JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK);
    // print_r($json);exit;
?>

<script type="text/javascript">
google.load("visualization", "1", { packages: ["corechart"]});
google.setOnLoadCallback(drawChart);

function drawChart() 
{
   var data = new google.visualization.DataTable(<?php echo json_encode($json); ?>);
   var chart = new google.visualization.LineChart(document.getElementById('line_chart'));
   chart.draw(data, {width: 400, height: 240});
}   
</script>
<div id="line_chart"></div>

So that's my code. This is the json that is passed to the chart from the database:

{"cols":[{"label":"Date","type":"date"},{"label":"Amount","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"c":[{"v":"Date(2015, 5, 23)"},{"v":6000}]},{"c":[{"v":"Date(2016, 5, 23)"},{"v":16000}]},{"c":[{"v":"Date(2015, 6, 23)"},{"v":10000}]},{"c":[{"v":"Date(2016, 6, 23)"},{"v":10000}]},{"c":[{"v":"Date(2015, 7, 23)"},{"v":5000}]},{"c":[{"v":"Date(2016, 7, 23)"},{"v":60000}]}]}

And below is the line chart that is output:


line chart output from above code


This is not what I want. My end goal is to get graph that displays multiple line charts(depending on the number of years present) with all the months displaying on the X-axis with the amount displaying on the Y-axis. This is the closest thing I've seen that resembles what I want to achieve:


linechart


The above image shows what I want to achieve. Like stated before, the months on the X-axis with the amount on the Y-axis. then the 'values' would be the years that have been returned from the query i.e. every year will have its own line chart


I'm a bit stuck on this and would like to request for guidance on how to accomplish this

Daniel LaLiberte

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Sep 1, 2016, 10:52:07 AM9/1/16
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The most straightforward way to implement your two-line chart is to put each year of data in a separate column.  Just use the month name (or number) for the domain values rather than the full dates, and label the columns according to the year.
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