FusionCharts Symfony Plugin: dbFusionChartsPlugin

We're
currently writing an OO class to create FusionCharts
quickly, easily & intuitive, because the existing FusionCharts.php class is not OOP and, honestly, we thought we could do better…
Our package is based on and tested against the FusionCharts Free v2 package. It's written
symfony independent, but we provide a helper, for easy use in symfony.
The symfony plugin, dbFusionChartPlugin, is
in its alpha state now, because it only includes basic single & multi-series chart support. Although the basic code is ready, it needs to be extended, to work with all chart types, but a mediocre programmer should be able to understand its structure and adapt/extend it to his needs. We deeply appreciate all help and suggestions!

Symfony
helper

[code]FC helper ex[/code]
This helper creates the necessary JavaScript.
[code]FC javaScript[/code]

Documentation

You can find the dbFusionChart phpDoc at digitalbase.eu/dbFusionChart/doc/index.html

Logic

As you can see in the FusionCharts Documentation, you need to define your chart's data in an XML file. Our dbFusionChartXML class uses the php DOM extension to encapsulate that XML logic by providing methods to add categories and (datasets with) sets. It has (for now) the descendants dbFC_Single & dbFC_Multi. The latter will make sure there are always as many sets in each dataset as there are categories, when adding a dataset or category.

Stay tuned

We have recently added a check in the addCategory function so it
wouldn't add the same category twice, no matter how many times it's
being called, e.g. when looping Propel objects to init a dbFusionChartXML. It's checks like these that need to be added, among much much more… So stay tuned!