Core Features Data manipulation Charting functions Extended functionalities
As pChart was able to both manage high quality drawing primitives and a way to store raw data it was time to write some charting functions. Today people only know this library because of this even if it was not the initial purpose of this library. pChart supports the widely used charting methods like plots, line, curve, bars, radars, polars,...

basic charts
Include all the standards charts
Standard charts
All standard charts present in the first version of the library are still there. You can create plot, line and curve charts easily and play with all the rendering options to get the best visual result for your applications. All charts will be drawn with the scaling configuration you'll make first : you can reverse the X and Y axis, tune the scales, ...
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bar charts
Extensive support for bar charts
Bars, stacked, normalized charts
Bar & stacked bar charts are also part of the base charting methods. You can use the normalize() function to create 100% stacked charts.
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radar
Radar an polar charts at their best
Radars and Polars charts
Radars and polars charts have been completely rebuilt from scratch to allow a deep configuration of the rendering. This two charts families now provide a great visual experience allowing you to easily highlight your data.
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pie
2D and 3D Pie charts
2D and 3D pie charts
You can create both 2D and 3D pie chart using the pPie extension. Both families can be deeply customized to allow you an easier integration in you current web application design.
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legend
Various legend box styles
Legend boxes support
Don't forget to write your data series legends! pChart can draw it for you in different formats, choose the orientation, colors and layout.
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Area Chart
Mix the styles and charts
Area charts
Display multiple data series on the same chart, play with the transparency and the shadow to create nice looking charts.
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Stacked Area Chart
Stack your data, compare their values
Stacked Area charts
Stack the areas of your multiple series to hilight value and zones thickness.
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threshold
Add vertical or horizontal thresholds
Thresholds
You can add thresholds over your charts to highlight specific values. Thresholds are written on a per axis basis.
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stock
Financial stock charts
Stock charts
Represent your stock quotes evolution during time with the stock chart extension.
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bubble
Easy to read bubble charts
Linear bubble charts
Represent your 2D data with the well known bubble chart layout. This kind of charts are generally used when an linked variable is affected to each points.
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scatter.line
Support for scatter charts
Scatter charts
Draw scatter charts providing X and Y data series using the pScatter class extension. As of today you can use this class to draw plot, line & spline charts.
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ring chart
Draw both 2D and 3D ring charts
Ring charts
The pie chart class also allow you to draw both 2D and 3D ring charts.
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indicators
Use indicators in your dashboards
Indicators
pChart is introducing new family of data visualisation methods. This chart called indicator arrow can be easily adapted for your needs, just give it a try!
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surface
Surface charts
2D Surface charts
2D surface charts can be used to represent data in 2 dimensional matrix. This kind of charts are used to analyse visually elevation maps or genetic genes distribution.
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zone chart
Create zones between your data series
Zone charts
You can highlight your data variations by using the zone chart functionality allowing you to draw zones between two datasets.
See more in the documentation..