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Building Graphs with MySql data
Posted by: Dan Barrett
Date: November 15, 2013 12:56PM

I have a very basic question, before I attempt to do what I am about to do.

I want to have user-generated graphs from in my website. All the data needed will be in a database. Here is how I thought I could go about this, so please just advise me, if you can, as to whether I am solving this problem in the best way. I have only been learning how to build websites for about two months. I need to figure this out for myself, but I'd like to know if my logic is sound.

My thought was to have two dropdown menus on the page: one to selected the x variable, and one to select the y variable (simple line graph). The variables would be submitted to php variables, and I'd run the MSQL query on submit.

I'd then pass the returned array into a jquery array and use that to build the graph, which I think I can do. I have one big question:

I'd like for users to be able to chart several different variables, and or change the scale (example, only including a portion of the data, etc.). Should I return all results from my database (basically, pull the entire thing, which IS NOT VERY large and WILL NOT increase (it's scientific data), or should I make them resubmit queries to mysql? I'm getting the impression that querying the database too often is not the best practice.

So, am I on the right track! Thanks for the all the help!!

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