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What you will learn in this chapter.
This chapter will show you how to unpack the library and lists the minimum
prerequisites that is needed to get the library running. It is assumed that your are
familiar with adjusting the PHP configuration file php.ini
and
that you already have a working PHP installation.
Please follow the steps below:
Either download the free library from http://jpgraph.net/download/
or use your license information and download the pro-version from
http://jpgraph.net/pro/login.php
. The download
is just a packed zip (or tar.gz) of php files. There are no automatic
installation scripts.
Unpack the library where you normally store PHP libraries. This should be in your PHP include path. When you unpack the library it will be named "jpgraph-3.x" (where x corresponds to the version you have downloaded).
Now either rename the unpacked the directory to just jpgraph or if the system us Unix based create a soft symbolic link, for example
ln -s jpgraph-2.x jpgraph
This will allow you to access the library files in your own program
for with a require_once('jpgraph/jpgraph.php')
Make sure that the GD extension is enabled in your
php.ini
file (check the output from
phpinfo()
)
[Optional] Verify that the paths defined in
jpg-config.inc.php
corresponds to the server
setup. The path to your TTF fonts must be correct. If you get an error
saying that some TTF fonts cannot be found or read then the path needs
to be adjusted in this configuration file.
[Optional] Check that you have sufficient memory and execution time
set in your php.ini
file. It is recommended to
allow at least 32Mb memory for PHP if you intend to run anything else
than very basic graph scripts.
[Optional] To allow for better debugging in conjunction with graph
scripts the output buffering should also be disabled in
php.ini
[Optional] To avoid warning messages it might be necessary to set the
default timezone in php.ini
if this has not already
been done. Starting with PHP 5.2 a warning is generated if the timezone
for PHP is not set.
When you install the library on a production server then you should not install the library in the document root. Instead it should be installed so that only the script can directly access the library files (somewhere in the PHP path).
If you have the pro-version you really should install the pre-compiled version
of the library (available under directory PhpExpress-src
.
This will significantly increase the performance of the library. The only
prerequisite is that you also need to install the (free) PhpExpress PHP
Accelerator from NuSphere Corporation. See Chapter 11. NuSphere PHP accelerator for information on how to install the
freely available PHP Accelerator.