Sameer Borate has a new post today looking at six charting libraries he thinks are some of the most excellent offered today.

Charts are an indispensable part of any data visualization work. People can grok visual representation of data easily than a textual variety. Today there are a huge number of free chart libraries available to display visualizations on websites. Below is a small list of some of the libraries available for displaying charts using php.

His list of six includes the following:

• Visifire
• PHP-SWF
• Open Flash Chart
• eZ Graph component of the eZ components framework