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    <pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 05:53:31 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[NetTuts.com: Learn to Create Interactive Drill-Down Dashboards with PHP and FusionCharts]]></title>
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New from NetTuts.com today there's a tutorial showing you how to use the FusionCharts tool to <A href="http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/learn-to-create-interactive-drill-down-dashboards-with-php-and-fusioncharts">create interactive drill-down dashboards</a> with a few simple PHP scripts.
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Presenting data in a graphical format always helps a lot in parsing the data efficiently. If the charts are interactive and linked, that's even better. Drill-down charts allow you to convert individual data plots (columns in column chart, pie slices in pie chart etc) of a chart into hotspots (or links). These items, when clicked, can open new charts and you can navigate between these charts easily.
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They use the <a href="http://www.fusioncharts.com/docs/?FirstChart/LinkedCharts.html">LinkedCharts</a> feature of FusionCharts to make the graphs clickable. They set up a basic database-driven system that holds some randomly generated data for display. Full PHP and HTML are provided to create a simple chart <a href="http://d2o0t5hpnwv4c1.cloudfront.net/895_linkedCharts/monthlyData.jpg">like this</a> where you can click into any of the bars for more detailed information. You can also <a href="http://nettuts.s3.amazonaws.com/895_linkedCharts/nt-demofiles.zip">download the full source</a> or <a href="http://work.sktnetwork.com/fc/fcdemo/demo.html">check out a demo</a>.
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:17:08 -0600</pubDate>
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